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Mines 1–100 of 600, A–Z (page 1 of 6).
| Mine | Region | Worked | Commodities |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aberllefenni Slate Quarry Reputed to be the longest continually worked slate mine anywhere in the world, closing only in 2003 after roughly five centuries of intermittent-to-continuous production. |
Gwynedd | Slates from the site are recorded roofing Plas Aberllefenni as early as 1500; organised commercial quarrying from around 1810–2003 | Slate |
| Ackton Hall Colliery Soldiers firing on a crowd at a Yorkshire colliery in 1893 killed two men and helped build the case for a new political party to represent working people in Parliament. |
West Yorkshire | Sunk from 1873–1985 | Coal |
| Addiewell Oil Works Built by James 'Paraffin' Young as the biggest oil works in the world in its day; anchors West Lothian's claim to be the birthplace of the global shale-oil industry, and its foundation stone was laid by the explorer David Livingstone. |
West Lothian | 1866–Refinery closed c.1921; candleworks c.1923; crude oil works continued to c.1956 | Oil Shale |
| Adelaide Mine A Cheshire rock-salt mine known for underground banquets in its 'Crystal Ballroom' chamber, flooded for good by a sudden 1928 water inrush. |
Cheshire | 1850–13 March 1928 (flooded) | Salt |
| Agecroft Colliery The 4 January 1859 shaft disaster was caused by nothing more exotic than a slipped leather signal band, after which the engineman — with no other way to know the cage's position — trusted to the sound of a bell alone. |
Greater Manchester | No.1 and No.2 shafts sunk 1844; No.3 and No.4 sunk 1894-1900; No.5 sunk late 1950s–March 1991 | Coal |
| Ailsa Craig Ailsa Craig's granite reaches a genuinely global audience in a way almost no other British quarry can claim: it is the source rock for the great majority of the world's curling stones, used at essentially every Winter Olympics since 1924. |
South Ayrshire | quarrying for curling stones from the 1850s; large-scale roadstone quarrying from 1907–roadstone quarry unprofitable and short-lived; curling-stone quarrying continues on an occasional basis today | Granite |
| Albion Colliery A colliery whose 1894 explosion killed 290 men and boys, the second-worst death toll of any British colliery disaster. |
Rhondda Cynon Taf | sunk 1884; opened August 1887–September 1966 | Coal |
| Alderley Edge Mines Roman and Bronze Age copper workings on a National Trust escarpment, including a 1995 Roman coin hoard find |
Cheshire | Bronze Age–1926 | Copper, Lead, Cobalt |
| Allenheads Mines Once the most productive lead mine in the North Pennines, yielding a seventh of the UK's lead output |
Northumberland | 1684–1896 | Lead, Fluorspar |
| Alport Mines A 1931 account by an Alport resident born in 1847 recorded that flue-cleaning workers ate only soft foods on the job, since anything handled directly risked carrying arsenic and lead residue from their hands to their mouths — a small, telling detail of just how contaminated the work really was. |
Derbyshire | 17th century–mid-1800s (mining); 1890s (smelting) | Lead |
| Alum Bay Sand and Copperas Workings Named for a mineral that was never there — Britain has no natural alum, and every attempt to make it here failed |
Isle of Wight | Alum attempted from 1561; sand and pyrite worked from the 16th century–Extraction now prohibited under SSSI designation | Silver Sand, Pyrite |
| Alva Silver Mine (Silver Glen) Few British mines come with a genuine buried-treasure story attached: forty tons of silver ore hidden in barrels, smelted ingots concealed under floorboards, and a mine deliberately filled in to hide it all from the government after a failed rebellion — documented history rather than embellished folklore. |
Clackmannanshire | 1712–1716 (main bonanza); cobalt worked intermittently later | Silver, Cobalt |
| Amberley Chalk Pits Its 1948 tunnel played a Californian gold mine in a James Bond film, and the locomotives still wear the paint |
West Sussex | 1840s–1960s | Chalk, Limestone |
| Ancaster Stone Quarries Worked since Roman times, this cream oolitic limestone has dressed buildings from Windsor Castle to York railway station and is still quarried today. |
Lincolnshire | worked since at least the Roman period–still working | Limestone |
| Argyll Colliery, Machrihanish A colliery so far from anywhere that it was cheaper to ship its coal to Rotterdam and Copenhagen than to cart it to Glasgow |
Argyll and Bute | Coal worked in the district before the 16th century; the modern colliery opened 29 May 1946–Ceased production 26 March 1967 | Coal |
| Ashburnham Furnace The last furnace working anywhere in a region that had made Britain's iron for two thousand years, closed not by any single disaster but simply outlasting all its rivals |
East Sussex | Working by the 16th century–Blown out finally in early 1813 | Iron |
| Askern Main Colliery The two winding engines installed here in 1912 were, at the time, the largest of their kind anywhere in Britain. |
South Yorkshire | Sinking started April 1911–20 December 1991 | Coal |
| Astley Green Colliery The last deep mine sunk in the Manchester coalfield; its headgear is the only survivor on the entire Lancashire coalfield |
Greater Manchester | 1908–1970 | Coal |
| Auchencairn Mine Worked three times for three different minerals over two centuries, and defeated by flooding every time |
Dumfries and Galloway | Probably worked for copper in the 18th century; reopened 1843 and again in the 1850s–1961 | Copper, Barite |
| Auchengeich Colliery The worst Scottish mining disaster of the 20th century, caused by a jammed belt on an unattended ventilation fan |
North Lanarkshire | 1908–1965 | Coal |
| Auchenharvie Colliery A Newcomen engine was pumping here in 1719 — seven years after the first one ever built — and its engine house is still standing |
North Ayrshire | From 1678; the Newcomen engine house dates from 1719–Early 20th century | Coal |
| Baddesley Colliery An engineer specified a brick casing around the underground boiler, the manager left it out, and thirty-two men died — the coroner's jury called it an error of judgement |
Warwickshire | Sunk from May 1850–1989 | Coal |
| Bage Mine A Derbyshire lead mine internationally known among mineralogists as the type locality of the rare lead minerals matlockite and phosgenite. |
Derbyshire | working by 1752–deep mining ceased 1907 | Lead |
| Baggeridge Colliery The last deep mine ever sunk in the Black Country — and the one whose closure ended three centuries of mining there for good |
West Midlands | First shaft sunk from 1899; production from 1912–2 March 1968 | Coal |
| Ballachulish Slate Quarries Once called the Slate Capital of Scotland; produced over half the country's domestic slate output at its peak |
Highland | 1693–1955 | Slate |
| Ballacorkish Mine Ballacorkish was already an old, exhausted, abandoned working by 1819 — and only became one of the Isle of Man's more successful 19th-century mines because a new Victorian company chose to look again at ground an earlier generation of miners had already given up on. |
Isle of Man | worked before 1819 (earlier phase, abandoned); revived 1862–1895 | Lead, Silver, Zinc, Ochre |
| Ballycastle Coal Mines Worked along dramatic sea cliffs for centuries; the last commercial coal extraction anywhere in Northern Ireland |
County Antrim | 16th century (earliest working); 1730s (organised export)–1967 (Craigfad Mine, final closure) | Coal |
| Bampfylde Mine A Devon copper mine on the River Mole with a rare surviving late-Victorian ore-processing complex, including the remains of at least five waterwheel pits. |
Devon | Copper working documented from the medieval period (radiocarbon dated to c.1420-1530); worked intermittently thereafter–1885 (final closure under the North Devon Mining Co) | Copper, Iron, Manganese |
| Bannockburn Colliery A pit that grew a farming hamlet into a 3,000-strong mining community within thirty years, and left behind an award-winning colliery silver band. |
Stirling | 1894–1953 (drift mine to 1963) | Coal |
| Barnack Quarries One of Britain's more unlikely nature reserves — its wildflower-carpeted hummocks are entirely the spoil of a medieval quarry that built two cathedrals, before Peterborough Abbey's monks eventually sold off nearly everything worth digging. |
Cambridgeshire | Roman period, worked intensively from the medieval period–c. 1500 (stone exhausted) | Limestone |
| Barnburgh Main Colliery Eighteen men were trapped when the floor itself rose up toward the roof in 1942 — four died, and it took six days to recover the last two bodies. |
South Yorkshire | Sinking started 1911; Barnsley seam reached 1914–16 June 1989 | Coal |
| Barony Colliery Only two headgears of this exact steel-frame design were ever built in Britain — and this is the only one still standing |
East Ayrshire | Sunk from 1907; coal reached 1912–1989 | Coal |
| Barrington Chalk Pit The cement works here grew out of one of the era's most notorious banking frauds — Farrow's Bank inflated its unfinished, barely-funded Dreadnought Cement venture to a paper value of £780,000 before the bank collapsed in 1920. |
Cambridgeshire | Site acquired 1914; first kiln in production July 1927–10 November 2008 | Chalk |
| Beaufort Iron Works The village of Beaufort is called Cendl in Welsh — a Welsh spelling of Kendall, the name of the brothers who built the ironworks it grew around |
Blaenau Gwent | 1779–Between 1873 and 1877 | Iron, Coal, Limestone |
| Beauport Park Roman Iron Mine A slag heap of over 100,000 tons found here in 1862, alongside a remarkably preserved Roman bath house later excavated by Time Team, marks what is thought to have been the third-largest ironworks in the entire Roman Empire. |
East Sussex | 1st century AD–3rd century AD | Iron |
| Beckermet Mine Beckermet's own closure in 1980 wasn't quite the end of Cumbrian haematite mining — that distinction belongs to the Florence Mine it had absorbed, which reopened independently afterwards and went on to become the last haematite mine working anywhere in Europe. |
Cumbria | opened 1903 (iron working in the district since the 12th century)–3 October 1980 (combined with Florence Mine from 1969) | Iron |
| Bedford United Mine Bedford United's five original setts — Wheal Marquis, Wheal Tavistock, Delves Kitchen, Ding Dong and South Bedford — were each too small to be worth working alone, but combined into a mine substantial enough to become Devon's third-biggest copper producer. |
Devon | 1841–1890 (main working); arsenic to 1920s | Copper, Tin, Arsenic, Tungsten |
| Beer Quarry Caves Britain's oldest continuously worked industrial site, mined by the Romans for prized building stone |
Devon | 1st century AD–1920s | Freestone |
| Benallt Mine Requisitioned in 1941 because German submarines had cut off the manganese imports British steelmaking depended on |
Gwynedd | 1886–December 1945 | Manganese |
| Bentley Colliery The rescue of injured miners after the 1931 explosion, which involved carrying casualties two miles underground to the shaft, brought eight Edward Medals — an unusually high number for a single disaster. |
South Yorkshire | Proving borehole 1895; sinking from 1904-06; coaling from 1908–December 1993 | Coal |
| Bere Alston Silver-Lead Mines Royal silver mines on the Tamar, so productive that in 1296 they supplied 15% of all silver reaching the London mint |
Devon | 1292–16th century | Silver, Lead |
| Bersham Colliery One of North Wales's last two working collieries alongside Point of Ayr; survived two fatal 19th/20th-century explosions |
Wrexham | 1864 (sinking, as Glan-yr-afon); 1874 (main coal production)–1986 | Coal |
| Betteshanger Colliery The biggest of Kent's four collieries and the last pit in England's most militant coalfield to close |
Kent | 1924 (sinking); 1927 (first coal)–1989 | Coal |
| Betws Colliery Betws' 1994 management buyout, which kept the pit working for a further nine years after British Coal gave up on it, echoes the story of worker ownership that saved Tower Colliery in the same era — proof that a mine written off as uneconomic by its nationalised owner could still find a viable second life under different management. |
Carmarthenshire | development from 1974; Betws New Drift began production 1978 (predecessor Ammanford Colliery closed 1976)–June 2003 | Coal |
| Bevercotes Colliery Built to be worked by one man at a console instead of a team underground — and defeated within a few metres by roof conditions no automation could read |
Nottinghamshire | Sunk from the late 1950s; production from July 1965–7 May 1993 | Coal |
| Bickershaw Colliery A Victoria Cross holder, decorated for running a message through sustained machine-gun fire in 1918, died at Bickershaw in 1940 in the most ordinary of mining accidents — carbon monoxide poisoning, no different from what killed men here with no medals at all. |
Greater Manchester | First shaft sunk c.1830; Nos. 1 and 2 shafts from 1872; deepened 1877–13 March 1992 | Coal |
| Big Pit Now Wales's National Coal Museum, with underground tours led by former miners |
Torfaen | 1880–1980 | Coal, Iron |
| Billingham Anhydrite Mine Thirty-three million tons taken out to make fertiliser — and then sealed and abandoned when the works switched to natural gas |
Stockton-on-Tees | Shaft sunk from September 1926; production from November 1927–Production ceased 1971; shaft capped 1978 | Anhydrite |
| Bilston Glen Colliery A pit built in the 1950s for a century of coal, closed thirty-seven years later with its memorial the most solid thing left. |
Midlothian | Sunk from 1952; production from 1963–1989 | Coal |
| Blackcraig Lead Mines Discovered by a soldier building a military road, worked in three separate bursts a century apart |
Dumfries and Galloway | 1763–1917 | Lead, Zinc |
| Blackdene Mine A Weardale lead and fluorspar mine worked since at least the fifteenth century, prized today by collectors for its fine purple fluorite. |
County Durham | worked by the early 15th century; fluorspar mining from early 20th century–1987 | Fluorspar, Lead |
| Blackhall Colliery The beach that made Blackhall famous on screen was, in reality, an industrial waste tip — the film shows it exactly as the colliery's own conveyor had left it. |
County Durham | Sunk from 1909; coal drawing began 1914–16 April 1981 | Coal |
| Blaen y Cwm Quarry A Blaenau Ffestiniog slate quarry served by the Rhiwbach Tramway to the Ffestiniog Railway. |
Gwynedd | trial workings c. 1818–8 May 1914 | Slate |
| Blaenavon Ironworks A pioneering Welsh ironworks, the first anywhere to use a steam-powered blowing engine in 1789, now a museum at the heart of a UNESCO World Heritage Site. |
Torfaen | 1788-89 (leased 1788, furnaces blown in 1789)–Iron production ceased 1904; steel manufacture in the wider works continued until 1938 | Iron, Coal |
| Blaenserchan Colliery This colliery kept producing coal for sixteen years after it stopped winding anything to its own surface, its output instead routed entirely underground through a neighbouring pit. |
Torfaen | Sunk 1890–28 August 1985 | Coal |
| Blakethwaite Mine Blakethwaite transferred its smelting operations to Surrender Mill in 1878 — the same Surrender Mill already recorded on this site, meaning two of Swaledale's best-known smelt-mill ruins were, for a few years at least, run as parts of the very same company's operation. |
North Yorkshire | 1819 (mine); 1821 (smelt mill)–1878 (smelting); worked intermittently after | Lead |
| Blue John Cavern Blue John is so rare that only about fifteen veins of it are known to have ever existed anywhere on Earth — and eight of them are inside this one cavern. |
Derbyshire | from Documented from at least 1766; possibly worked earlier | Fluorspar |
| Bog Mine The Somme Tunnel takes its name not from any accident underground but from the war raging in France at the time it was dug — driven in 1917 purely to give unemployed miners paid work, a home-front answer to a battle its own workforce could hear about only from the newspapers. |
Shropshire | 1730s–1924 | Lead, Zinc, Barite |
| Bogside Colliery Bogside's own miners set national production records in the 1960s — a pit at the very top of its game, undone two decades later not by exhausted coal but by flood damage sustained in one of Britain's most bitter industrial disputes. |
Fife | opened 1957-59 (sources differ on the exact year)–1985-86 (sources differ on the exact year) | Coal |
| Bold Colliery Bold outlasted the 1984-85 strike itself, only for the National Coal Board to close it anyway seven months later — a pit that had survived floods, a fatal shaft accident and 110 years of continuous working, brought down by a balance sheet rather than the ground beneath it. |
Merseyside | 1875–1985 | Coal |
| Bonawe Iron Furnace The longest-lived charcoal-fired blast furnace in Scotland and now the most complete surviving charcoal ironworks in Britain. |
Argyll and Bute | 1753–1874-76 | Iron |
| Botallack Mine Clifftop engine houses with workings extending under the sea |
Cornwall | 1500s–1895 | Tin, Lead, Cobalt, Copper, Arsenic, Silver |
| Bothwell Castle Colliery The government itself took direct control of this colliery in 1943, unsatisfied with its wartime output — a rare instance of the state stepping directly into day-to-day management rather than just regulating from outside. |
South Lanarkshire | Nos. 3 and 4 shafts sunk 1889–1959 (upper coal working ended; retained afterward as a pumping station) | Coal |
| Boulby Alum Quarries Fed by barrels of urine shipped from London, because the process needed ammonia and there was no cheaper source in the country |
North Yorkshire | 1650s–1871 | Alum |
| Boulby Mine Britain's deepest mine at 1.1km down; also hosts the UK's only deep underground physics laboratory |
North Yorkshire | from 1970s | Potash, Salt |
| Bowhill Colliery Known locally as 'the Josephine' after the chairman's daughter who opened it in 1895 — a name that outlived the coal company itself by seventy years. |
Fife | 1895 (coal); earlier ironstone working–May 1965 | Coal, Iron |
| Box Quarry Brunel's Box Tunnel revealed by accident just how much stone lay beneath the hill it was blasted through — the resulting mine grew into the largest in the country, 600 acres of underground passages centred on a chamber simply known as the Cathedral. |
Wiltshire | Worked from at least the 17th-18th century; commercial mining expanded rapidly after 1841–1968 | Freestone |
| Bradda Head Mines Clifftop workings below Milner's Tower, with shafts sunk below sea level |
Isle of Man | Bronze Age–1904 | Copper, Lead, Silver |
| Braich Goch Quarry Braich Goch's nearly two-century working life makes it one of the longest-lived slate quarries in Wales — and its underground chambers now draw more visitors as King Arthur's Labyrinth than they ever employed quarrymen at the site's Victorian peak. |
Gwynedd | 1787–1970 | Slate |
| Bramley Fall Quarry Supplied the gritstone for Leeds Town Hall and Kirkstall Abbey and was shipped as far as the Houses of Parliament and Westminster Bridge. |
West Yorkshire | Worked since at least the 12th century–c.1930 | Sandstone |
| Brandelhow Mine Brandelhow's real claim to fame today has little to do with what came out of the ground: the same fellside where German miners once worked silver and lead for Elizabeth I became, in 1902, the very first piece of land the National Trust ever owned. |
Cumbria | worked by the 1560s (Elizabethan); reopened on a larger scale in 1819–early 1891 | Lead, Copper, Silver, Graphite |
| Brandon Flint Mines Worked on and off for 6,000 years; its Napoleonic-era knappers held the sole British Army contract for musket gunflints |
Suffolk | c. 4000 BC (earliest working); revived post-medieval period–1930s | Flint |
| Brightling and Mountfield Gypsum Mines A borehole drilled to look for coal found four seams of gypsum instead — and the mine it started is still working 150 years later |
East Sussex | from 1876 (Mountfield); 1963 (Brightling) | Gypsum, Anhydrite |
| Britannia Copper Mine Hundreds of thousands of people walk past this mine every year on their way up Snowdon, over a causeway it built. |
Gwynedd | First recorded around 1800–1916 | Copper |
| Brodsworth Colliery Once the highest-output three-shaft colliery in Britain, paired with Woodlands, one of the finest early garden villages built for a mining community. |
South Yorkshire | sunk October 1905 - 1907–7 September 1990 | Coal |
| Brora Colliery It worked Jurassic coal, not Carboniferous — and after its liquidator shut it in 1960 the twenty-five sacked miners bought it back and ran it as a co-operative |
Highland | Coal recorded at Brora from 1529; first shaft sunk 1598–1974 | Coal |
| Brownley Hill Mine Brownley Hill gave science one of its rarer minerals: alstonite, first identified here in the 1830s and named for the wider Alston Moor district the mine itself sits within. |
Cumbria | worked from the early 1700s–1966 | Lead, Silver, Zinc |
| Broxburn Oil Works Its spent waste alone built one of the largest artificial hills in Scotland, now a scheduled monument in its own right |
West Lothian | Small-scale working from the 1860s; the Broxburn Oil Company formed 1877–26 April 1927 | Oil Shale |
| Bryntail Lead Mine More of its buildings survive intact than at almost any other Welsh metal mine — and it stands directly below a modern reservoir dam |
Powys | Worked from the late 18th century–1884 | Lead, Barite |
| Burngrange Oil Shale Mine A relatively new Scottish shale mine |
Midlothian | 1936–1962 | Oil Shale |
| Burrow Farm Mine Its engine house was built from another failed mine's stone, to hold a second-hand engine from a third site — and got four years' use before the field closed for good |
Somerset | 1860 (shaft sunk)–1883 | Iron |
| Bursledon Brickworks A brickworks kept whole because a motorway cut it in half — the surviving half is the last steam brickworks in the country. |
Hampshire | 1897–1974 | Brick Clay |
| Bwlch Glas Mine The dedicated tramway built to serve this mine failed and closed years before Bwlch Glas's own real production began — its mill was later built directly on top of the abandoned trackbed. |
Ceredigion | 1880s–1923 | Lead, Silver, Zinc |
| Cadeby Main Colliery Site of a 1912 double explosion that killed 91 men, more than half of them rescuers wiped out searching for the first blast's victims |
South Yorkshire | 1889–7 November 1986 | Coal |
| Cae Coch Sulphur Mine A distinctive orange-stained sulphur mine, at one point supplying over half the UK's WWI pyrite output |
Conwy | 1607–1942 | Pyrite |
| Cambokeels Mine Cambokeels' incline was built during the First World War by German prisoners of war — a small, easily overlooked detail that ties a routine Pennine fluorspar mine directly into the story of the war being fought at the same time on the other side of Europe. |
County Durham | 1868 (lead, Beaumont Company); reopened 1905 for fluorspar–1989 | Fluorspar, Lead |
| Cambrian Colliery Struck by two of the worst colliery explosions in South Wales history twenty years apart, and owned by the combine whose 1910 lockout at a neighbouring pit escalated into the Tonypandy Riots. |
Rhondda Cynon Taf | No.1 shaft sunk from 1872; No.2 from 1874; No.3 1889-91; No.4 from 1912–24 September 1966 | Coal |
| Cann Quarry Slate from here paved Piccadilly and tiled Kensington, hauled out first by a purpose-built canal and then a tramway engineered with input from Brunel. |
Devon | First recorded 1671; likely worked earlier–1915 | Slate |
| Cannop Colliery Pumped 1,140 million gallons of water out of the ground in a single year — and the cost of doing that eventually closed the pit |
Gloucestershire | Shafts sunk from 1906; deep coal reached 1909–1960 | Coal |
| Caphouse Colliery Home to the National Coal Mining Museum for England; its shaft may be the oldest still in everyday use in Britain |
West Yorkshire | 1770s-1780s–1985 | Coal |
| Carclaze Pit A French scientist wrote up this pit for the Paris Academy of Sciences in 1764 — a century before anyone realised it was sitting on a fortune in china clay |
Cornwall | Tin streaming from an unknown early date; china clay from 1851–Clay extraction ceased around 2002 | China Clay, Tin |
| Cardowan Colliery Over 50 men are recorded as having died at Cardowan across its working life, yet the explosion that most directly hastened its closure — in January 1982 — killed no one at all, injuring 25 severely enough that the colliery was shut down until the cause could be established. |
North Lanarkshire | Sinking from 1924; production from 1929–1983 | Coal |
| Carmyllie Quarries To move its stone the quarry owner built the steepest railway in Scotland ever worked by a passenger train — five miles from sea level to 600 feet |
Angus | Late 18th century–20th century (railway closed 1965) | Freestone |
| Carn Brea Mine One of the largest and most productive mines of the Camborne-Redruth district before its 1896 amalgamation folded its history into the combined Tincroft story. |
Cornwall | 1832 (amalgamation of Wheal Fanny, Tregajorran, Barncoose and Wheal Druid)–1913-14 (Carn Brea section); combined Tincroft mine continued to 1921 | Copper, Tin, Arsenic, Tungsten |
| Carn Galver Mine For all its Victorian investment — seventy miners, a shaft sunk to 130 fathoms, two purpose-built engine houses — Carn Galver's total recorded output across its working life came to just 150 tons of black tin, a genuinely modest return for the scale of effort put into it. |
Cornwall | worked early 19th century (three main periods: to 1840; 1851-1869; 1871-1875)–1875 | Tin |
| Carnon Mine A Cornish tin mine worked from cast-iron cylinder shafts sunk into an artificial island in a tidal creek, closed after only six years despite turning a profit. |
Cornwall | 1824–1830 | Tin, Gold |
| Carrock Fell Mine The only mine outside Cornwall and Devon to have produced wolfram at scale |
Cumbria | 1854–1981 | Tungsten, Copper, Arsenic, Lead |
| Castell Carn Dochan Mine A small Welsh gold mine named for the ruined thirteenth-century castle on the crag above it, the most easterly mine of the Merioneth gold-mining district. |
Gwynedd | 1862-63–1904 or 1905 | Gold, Silver |
| Castle-an-Dinas Wolfram Mine One of only two mines in Britain ever worked for tungsten and nothing else, dug straight through the middle of an Iron Age hillfort |
Cornwall | 1917–1957 | Tungsten |
| Castlecaldwell Feldspar Mine The feldspar and kaolin dug here directly supplied the founding of Belleek Pottery, still Ireland's best-known ceramics maker. |
County Fermanagh | Deposits identified 1853; mining developed through the 1850s-60s–1940s (last feldspar working) | Feldspar, China Clay |