People living near the UK's largest opencast mine say they'd had champagne ready for its closure.
But the company hopes to prepare another planning application for a further three years of coal extraction.
In 2007 work began to mine 11 million tonnes of coal. In the early years, Chris and Alyson Austin's home was a just a few hundred yards from the operation. Ms Elgar said: "We would call on them on the basis of their planning policy, their energy policy and their coal policy to reject this and send a clear message to coal operators in Wales that they are no longer welcome."
A spokesman said this would be a "major project" and result in an "end of coaling strategy" for the area. Tata said the mine supplied it with "an essential raw material" that enabled production of steel which is "helping the country to achieve its net-zero ambitions".
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