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Abandoned mine plan showing Garscube Colliery pit number 6 for Garibaldi Clayband Ironstone Workings. BGS © UKRI
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Release of over 500 Scottish abandoned-mine plans 

24/06/2025

The historical plans cover non-coal mines that were abandoned pre-1980 and are available through BGS's plans viewer.

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Jurjen Wagemaker, (Founder, FloodTags) and Catherine Pennington (BGS)
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New collaboration aims to improve availability of real-time hazard impact data

19/06/2025

BGS has signed a memorandum of understanding with FloodTags to collaborate on the use of large language models to improve real-time monitoring of geological hazards and their impacts.

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Fieldwork setting up the Abergavenny geomagnetic repeat station BGS © UKRI.
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NERC Tech Forum 2025

Event on 03/06/2025

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BGS blogs

AI and Earth observation: BGS visits the European Space Agency

02/07/2025

The newest artificial intelligence for earth science: how ESA and NASA are using AI to understand our planet.

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Midlands Innovation TALENT placement at BGS

15/08/2023

Jodie Brown revisits her time at BGS’s Stable Isotope Facility as part of the Midlands Innovation TALENT project, which aims to increase the status of technicians.

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The team at bluedot. BGS © UKRI.
BGS blogs
bluedot 2023: the importance of geological outreach

10/08/2023

Staff members from various disciplines across BGS worked over the weekend to engage festivalgoers with BGS’s work, specifically critical raw materials.

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3D scan that Patrick created of the fossil Plesiechinus, a species of Echinoid. BGS © UKRI.
BGS blogs
Boreholes aren’t boring!

31/07/2023

Work experience student Patrick visited BGS to learn more about being a professional rock lover.

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Vanessa in the stable isotopes lab at the British Geological Survey. BGS © UKRI.
BGS blogs
My experience as an international PhD student visiting BGS

17/07/2023

PhD student Vanessa Nowinski describes her experience in the stable isotopes labs at BGS, while working on the famous Lake Suigetsu.

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Sand mining settlement pond Malaysia. BGS © UKRI.
BGS blogs
Living in a world made of sand

17/07/2023

Tom Bide and Clive Mitchell outline the BGS Sand and Sustainability project, which is working on geoscience-led solutions for the global issue of sand mining.

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Detail of a building in Thistle Court, Edinburgh, built around 1768 and one of the oldest buildings in the Edinburgh New Town. The stone is a mixture of locally derived material, with pale yellow-buff and pink sandstones and darker reddish-purple igneous rocks. BGS © UKRI.
BGS blogs
Scotland’s building stones: over one thousand images now available online

06/07/2023

New images of the BGS Building Stone Collection have been published.

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A recently upgraded community groundwater drinking-water point equipped with a solar pump and non-functioning, insituonline chlorination system. Dan Lapworth, BGS © UKRI.
BGS blogs
Harare’s clean drinking water challenge

31/05/2023

Researchers from BGS and partners in Zimbabwe report on the urban water supply challenge in the capital city, Harare.

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Andy McKenzie presenting at the groundwater education event. BGS © UKRI.
BGS blogs
Island groundwater management in the Philippines: part two — Bacolod

23/05/2023

In the second part of their Philippines update, BGS’s Andy Barkwith and Andy McKenzie meet up with other BGS staff members to continue their outreach work.

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