Guidance

Licensable coal mining data

Coal Authority data sets available under licence.

Available data sets

List of all the data sets the Coal Authority makes available, with descriptions

Prices

Prices per royalty unit

Prices per km square

Derived prices per royalty unit

Derived prices per km square

We have undertaken a review and are applying a Consumer Price Index average price increase of 4% to our data.

The new data prices will come into effect from 1 April 2024.

Our next scheduled pricing review will be in March 2025.

Application forms

The application form to submit for the use and re-use Coal Authority data

Example licence agreements

List of different kinds of licences available

Metadata

Coal Authority metadata

‘Use’ and ‘Re-use’

‘Use’ means the use of Coal Authority data by persons or legal entities ‘for commercial or non-commercial purposes within the public task for which the documents were produced’. Where available, data sets which are licenced for use will contain personal data.

‘Re-use’ means the use of Coal Authority data by persons or legal entities ‘for commercial or non-commercial purposes other than the initial purpose within the public task for which the documents were produced’ (as defined by the European Directive on the Re-Use of Public Sector Information 2015). Data sets which are licenced for reuse will have all personal data removed.

Published 25 September 2017
Last updated 14 February 2024 + show all updates
  1. Announced that new data prices will come into effect from 1 April 2024.

  2. Announced that new data prices will come into effect from 6 April 2023.

  3. Addition of derived prices per royalty unit and derived prices per km square

  4. First published.