Up to 650 jobs could go at a Warwickshire coal mine hit by an underground fire last month.
Owners UK Coal had warned after the blaze on 22 February, that it was possible commercial mining might not resume at Daw Mill Colliery.
The company now says a small team will remain on site to secure the mine over the coming months, but the majority of the workforce will be made redundant.
Kevin McCullough, chief executive of UK Coal, said it was a "terrible week".
Daw Mill is the last remaining deep mine on the Warwickshire coalfields, and one of the last in the UK.
Fall in productionUK Coal said last month's fire had been the largest at a UK coal mine in more than 30 years and was continuing to burn "ferociously".
Over the past year, the company has announced restructuring programmes at the mine and in August said it was "unlikely" the mine would remain open after 2014.
At the time, it said it had made overall losses of £20.6m in the six months to 30 June, with Daw Mill contributing to a 20% fall in production.
About 56 million tonnes of coal is estimated to remain at the site.
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