Open-pit coal mining in the United Kingdom is in decline. Output has fallen every year since 2010. In 2010, the United Kingdom was forecast to produce about of coal a year from open-pit mines. Most came from Scotland, with the largest operator there being the Scottish Coal subsidiary of Scottish Resources Group. Actual production in 2010 was over 13 million tonnes but this has declined to less than 8 million tonnes in 2014. Deep coal mining stopped completely at the end of 2015 and the UK is planning to phase out the use of coal to produce electricity by 2024. Until 2014, statistics on open-pit coal mining were compiled by the British Geological Survey from information provided by local planning authorities. Open-pit coal mines usually last four or five years at extraction rates of up to a quarter-million tons a year. Sites active after 2016 In September 2017, there were 9 sites operating in the UK with a total manpower of 590. Production has declined to around 3 million tonnes in 2017. The Ffos-y-fran Land Reclamation Scheme is now (as of October, 2021) the only major open pit operating in the UK with a few small to very small other sites (employee count much less than 50 per mine for all sites other Ffos-y-fran) still in operation. Also, no major applications are pending to open new mines as of October, 2021. Wales Miller Argent run the Ffos-y-fran Land Reclamation Scheme in eastern Merthyr Tydfil, which involves mining the coal from under 367 hectares of land made derelict by earlier coal-mining operations; the coal will be provided to the Aberthaw Power Station on the Glamorgan coast. The project started in 2007 and is expected to last 17.5 years. Aberpergwm was also reopened in 2018. Note, that according to this source, this mine is an underground drift mine, and not an open-pit mine. Celtic Energy only operated the expanded East Pit, until Nant Helen was reopened in 2019 to replace the soon to be closed East Pit. The site's licence was revoked in June 2020; thus mining is to stop. Scotland Hargreaves plc operated one site in Scotland, House of Water in Ayrshire; the site stopped operating in 2020. England Banks Mining started working on its Bradley site in May 2018 amid protesters camping on the site. Banks had three additional operation sites in Shotton, and Brenkley Lane both in Northumberland, and