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Mine	Region	Worked	Commodities
Spindle Point Colliery A Fletcher family sinking with a crooked shaft and an odd name, scene of an 1847 sinking explosion and an 1867 cage accident that drowned three boys in the sump.	Greater Manchester	1847 (sinking)–June 1928	Coal
Lolly Scar Mine One of Nidderdale's last lead mines, worked by Swaledale men brought from Old Gang and still paying its miners by the bing in the 1900s.	North Yorkshire	1866 (crosscut begun)–1910	Lead
Giants Hall Colliery A Standish pit whose No. 1 shaft dated from the early 1800s, deepened by Wigan Coal & Iron into a 600-yard colliery that wound coal into the 1960s.	Greater Manchester	Early 1800s–January 1961	Coal
Wharton Hall Colliery A Bridgewater Trustees pit that wound coal for barely fifty years and then spent nearly four decades as a pumping station guarding its neighbours.	Greater Manchester	c.1873–December 1927 (coal winding)	Coal
Newtown Colliery A Clifton pit bought by a rival company largely to control the water that threatened its own workings, and kept pumping for Agecroft for nearly thirty years after it stopped producing.	Greater Manchester	c.1872–April 1961	Coal
Blaenpergwm Colliery One of a cluster of small licensed mines high in the Rheola Forest, where pit horses were still at work around 1990.	Neath Port Talbot	from 1955	Coal
Chancellorville Mine A privately opened 1970s mine at Winton West Mains, worked under licence from the nationalised industry, and the last in Pencaitland parish to produce coal.	East Lothian	July 1971–May 1979	Coal
Herm Silver Mine A Channel Islands silver venture that lasted barely a year, launched by the promoter of Sark's silver mine on the strength of ores shown in a Guernsey office.	herm	1837–1838	Silver, Copper, Lead
Hayside Colliery A Kilmarnock pit that made its own firebricks from the clay it raised with the coal, and ended its days pumping water for a pottery.	East Ayrshire	By 1873–Early 1900s	Coal, Fireclay
Levenseat Limestone Mines Mined for lime since at least the 1830s, when ten men and three horses followed a single seven-foot bed of limestone into the hill.	West Lothian	By 1837–c.1967	Limestone, Fireclay
Muldron Ironstone Pits A scatter of Victorian ironstone pits on the West Calder moors, worked for the Coltness furnaces and now surrounded by wind turbines.	West Lothian	After 1855–c.1885	Ironstone
Pottishaw Mine One of the last West Lothian clay mines feeding Armadale's firebrick kilns, working into the 1980s under what is now an industrial estate.	West Lothian	1960–1982	Fireclay
Northrigg Colliery A colliery sunk straight down the old shafts of the world-famous Torbanehill mineral pits, whose new pithead burned to the ground within two years.	West Lothian	c.1899–1962	Coal, Fireclay
Lodge Colliery A small Slamannan steam-coal colliery that its own owners called 'unimportant' in 1890, worked out within six years.	Falkirk	Mid-1840s–1896	Coal
Mardy Colliery The Rhymney Iron Company's own-freehold pit, closed in 1909 because its coal lay too far in, where the poet Idris Davies later worked.	Caerphilly	c.1859–After 1926	Coal
Caerlan Colliery A dozen-man naked-light drift at Tonyrefail where, in 1920, an overman struck a match in a heading just cleared of gas.	Rhondda Cynon Taf	By 1900–1935	Coal
Seneley Green Colliery A century of small workings at Seneley Green, ending in a costly NCB drift abandoned within two years as the seam thinned to a foot.	Merseyside	By 1848–1951	Coal
Torbanehill Pits The pits where the world-famous 'Torbanehill mineral' was dug, fought over in the courts as coal or not, and whose last stockpile burned for days in 1872.	West Lothian	1850–1888	Coal, Cannel Coal, Ironstone
Mosside Mine An Airdrie mine where water from old workings drowned three men in 1939, remembered in Whinhall, and possibly Kippsbyre under another name.	North Lanarkshire	—	Coal
Oakerdykes Pit A three-man family pit that was too small to nationalise, lit by carbide lamps and said to be the only gas-free mine in Scotland, which kept going until 1978.	Falkirk	1936–August 1978	Coal
Sark's Hope Silver Mine The only metal mine in the Channel Islands to ship ore, and the venture whose debts cost the Le Pelley family the fief of Sark.	Sark	1833 (Le Pot)–1845 (mining ceased)	Silver, Copper, Lead
Mosside Colliery A Bathgate colliery whose washing plant, built in 1902, cleaned the coal of all three of Gavin Paul and Sons' collieries.	West Lothian	1878–1925	Coal
Braehead Colliery A Fauldhouse colliery worked with electric coal cutters and conveyors by the 1940s, whose whole plant, down to 1,800 yards of sidings, was auctioned in 1944.	West Lothian	c.1908–1944	Coal
Legbrannock Colliery A Holytown colliery worked seam by seam for sixty years, from the blackband ironstone of the 1850s to the Lower Drumgray in 1919.	North Lanarkshire	By 1860–After 1920	Coal, Ironstone
Skerrington Colliery A Hurlford colliery where an 1854 firedamp explosion blew down the shaft partition and buried four men at the pit bottom.	East Ayrshire	By 1854–1908	Coal
Binniehill Colliery An early adopter of wire winding ropes, where an 1863 gunpowder blast in the joiners' shop killed a boy playing outside, and whose colliers testified against the company store in 1871.	Falkirk	1840s–1896	Coal, Ironstone
Boghead Colliery The pits that gave the world 'Boghead coal', the oil-rich cannel at the start of the Scottish paraffin industry.	West Lothian	1848–c. 1920	Coal, Cannel Coal, Ironstone
Garrallan Colliery A small Cumnock pit that passed through five companies and reached the House of Lords in 1924 over a bottomer's death at the shaft.	East Ayrshire	c. 1907–1960	Coal, Fireclay
Knowton Colliery A machine-mined Shotts colliery of over 450 men in 1924, whose grassed bing still stands above the fields of Knowton Farm.	North Lanarkshire	By 1895–1933	Coal
Hirstrigg Colliery A moorland colliery between Salsburgh and Shotts that employed over 300 men in 1910 and piped water to its neighbours' miners' rows.	North Lanarkshire	After 1880–1943	Coal
Skellyton Colliery A Larkhall colliery where a junior Scottish Cup winner was killed at the coal face in 1915, and an explosion killed both the manager and the fireman in 1937.	South Lanarkshire	By 1864–1951	Coal, Fireclay
Champfleurie Mine A Linlithgow shale mine that went down with the Linlithgow Oil Company in 1902, its site now a golf course.	West Lothian	c. 1884–1902	Oil Shale, Coal
Cobbinshaw South No. 3 Mine A nine-year shale mine on the Cobbinshaw moor, where a gas explosion blew out a half-built stopping and killed two men.	West Lothian	1906 or 1907–1915	Oil Shale
Dalmeny No. 2 and 3 Pits The pits behind the Dalmeny Oil Works, now buried under an oil terminal and a Forth bridge approach road.	West Lothian	c. 1871–1914	Oil Shale
Duddingston No. 1 and 2 Mines The first completely electrified mine of the Scottish shale oil industry, linked by electric tramway to its crude oil works.	West Lothian	1900–1941	Oil Shale
Polbeth No. 26 Mine A shale mine so steep it ran stepped steel carriages, whose engine house is now the village community centre.	West Lothian	By 1911 (possibly the 1880s)–1947	Oil Shale
Allanshaw Colliery A Hamilton pit where a father and son died in an explosion that left their locked lamps and the workings untouched.	South Lanarkshire	By 1876–1942	Coal, Ironstone
Bellside Colliery A Cleland ironstone and coal pit where a bottomer fell from a mid-landing when the cage he had called was stopped at the top.	North Lanarkshire	By 1872–After 1924	Coal, Ironstone
Spindleside Colliery A Cleland pit nicknamed 'The Midge', where a snapping crane killed the manager and the electrical engineer in 1921.	North Lanarkshire	By 1865–By 1939	Coal, Ironstone
Vogrie Colliery A Gorebridge colliery and fireclay works worked for more than a century, whose brick kilns still stand.	Midlothian	By 1823–1939	Coal, Fireclay
Whistleberry Colliery A Blantyre pit of thick coal and treacherous head coal, whose site became a brickworks.	South Lanarkshire	By 1900–27 May 1935	Coal, Ironstone
Murdostoun Colliery A Cleland colliery where a pitheadman, his electric light failed, walked into the colliery reservoir in the dark and drowned.	North Lanarkshire	By 1909–1932	Coal
Garriongill Colliery A Coltness Iron Company colliery near Overtown where donkeys hauled hutches and the general manager himself was burned by firedamp.	North Lanarkshire	By 1871–1932	Coal
Dewshill Colliery A Coltness Iron Company pit on the Shotts moors whose bings still rise beside the M8.	North Lanarkshire	1896–1943	Coal
Cornsilloch Colliery A Larkhall coal and fireclay colliery with a shaft 196 metres deep, where two men's naked lights fired gas in 1901.	South Lanarkshire	c. 1894–1937 or 1944	Coal, Fireclay
Swinhill Colliery A Larkhall colliery where two men won the Edward Medal unscrewing an air-pipe flange to reach a fireman caught by gas in 1913.	South Lanarkshire	By 1858–1942	Coal
Longriggend Colliery A moorland colliery around Longriggend, with pits numbered to eleven, where an 1899 firedamp blast tore up the roadway.	North Lanarkshire	By 1882–1953	Coal
Jerviston Colliery One of the early Motherwell collieries, on the estate that is now Colville Park, worked by the Summerlee ironmasters.	North Lanarkshire	By 1840–After 1924	Coal
Parkneuk Colliery A Motherwell ironmasters' pit whose site became a speedway track, home of the Motherwell Eagles.	North Lanarkshire	By 1909–1945	Coal
Shettleston Colliery An east Glasgow colliery where an unearthed pump switchbox electrocuted a foreman in 1916 and gas burned five men in 1927.	Glasgow	By 1862–1936	Coal
Kippsbyre Colliery An Airdrie colliery worked for more than a century, where three men lost in a sudden flood in 1939 were never brought out.	North Lanarkshire	By 1836–1955	Coal, Ironstone
Foxley Colliery A Tollcross pit worked with power-driven coal cutters during the First World War, reached by a mineral line from Carmyle.	Glasgow	By 1898–1925	Coal
Bankpark Colliery A Tranent pit beside a fireclay works, where a winding rope rotted from inside broke in 1913 and dropped two men 46 fathoms.	East Lothian	By 1852–1923	Coal
Coursington Colliery A Motherwell colliery with its own locomotives, where boys of fourteen died at the picking tables.	North Lanarkshire	By 1849–1926	Coal, Ironstone
Lochwood Colliery The Bairds' Easterhouse colliery, whose workings yielded a fossil giant clubmoss now in Glasgow's museum collections.	Glasgow	By 1880–1914 or the 1920s	Coal
Daldowie Colliery An east Glasgow pit whose site carried a greyhound track for over sixty years.	Glasgow	1877–1924	Coal
Glenesk Colliery A short-lived Dalkeith colliery beside the old Edinburgh and Dalkeith Railway, worked for only about seven years.	Midlothian	c. 1898–By 1905	Coal
Calderbank Colliery A Baillieston pit whose subsidence felled a mansion, and whose site became Glasgow's zoo.	Glasgow	By 1874–After 1929	Coal
Auchenbegg Colliery Coalburn's first deep pit, whose abandoned coal cutter was dug up by opencast miners sixty-six years later.	South Lanarkshire	1837–1922	Coal, Ironstone
Parkhead Colliery A Motherwell ironmasters' pit, worked for sixty-five years, whose shafts now lie under a car park and a road verge.	North Lanarkshire	c. 1860–1925	Coal, Ironstone
Viewpark Colliery An Uddingston pit where an electric coal cutter exploded in a gassy seam in 1922, burning eleven men.	North Lanarkshire	By 1897–By 1942	Coal, Ironstone
Braidhurst Colliery A Summerlee pit at Motherwell, worked from at least 1891 to 1942.	North Lanarkshire	By 1891–1942	Coal
Bellfield Colliery A Coalburn colliery whose owner died in its own pithead machinery, and which drowned in the 1921 strike.	South Lanarkshire	Early 1890s–1921	Coal
Balbardie Colliery Bathgate's long-lived gas-coal and blackband colliery, whose boilers blew up in 1895.	West Lothian	1850s–By 1946	Coal, Ironstone
Darngavil Colliery A Greengairs colliery where one miner went down a flooding shaft alone to bring out seven men in 1920.	North Lanarkshire	from By 1868	Coal, Ironstone
Westrigg Colliery Blackridge's first colliery, whose site is now the village's railway station.	North Lanarkshire	c. 1886–1930	Coal
Kirkwood Colliery A Coatbridge colliery that ended its life stooping out old pillars, closing in 1927.	North Lanarkshire	By 1884–1927	Coal
Bredisholm Colliery A Bargeddie colliery whose pits fed the Monkland Canal by tram road and the Drumpeller Railway.	North Lanarkshire	By 1853–After 1934	Coal
Wishaw Colliery A Wishaw pit whose 1849 explosion blew both cages, and a man, out of the shaft.	North Lanarkshire	from By 1836	Coal
Monkland Colliery A Calderbank pit where a father and a workmate died digging out a buried son in 1903.	North Lanarkshire	to After 1911	Coal
Haughhead Colliery A fiery Hamilton pit where gas let out from behind a stopping killed three men in 1867.	South Lanarkshire	1860s–1886	Coal
Cleland Colliery An estate coalfield of forty-odd numbered pits, where a crown beam gave way at the foot of No. 3 in 1862 and killed three.	North Lanarkshire	from Before 1846	Coal, Ironstone
Newliston No. 29 Mine A rich West Lothian shale mine where three rescue men in gas masks died fighting a fire in 1919.	West Lothian	1884–1937	Oil Shale
Philpstoun No. 5 Mine A short-lived West Lothian shale mine where three young miners died in a gas explosion in 1907.	West Lothian	1898–1911	Oil Shale
Blairadam Colliery A Kelty pit where twelve yards of 'the hardest freestone' roof fell on a coal-cutting machine in 1908.	Fife	Late 1880s–By 1924	Coal
Orbiston Colliery A Bellshill pit where three men died of white damp fighting an underground fire in 1893, one trying to save another.	North Lanarkshire	By 1873–1925	Coal, Ironstone
Gavieside No. 11 Pit One of Young's oldest and largest shale pits, where four boys and young men fell to their deaths in 1885.	West Lothian	c. 1867–1901	Oil Shale, Coal
Montgomeryfield Colliery An Ayrshire pit where a rope slipped off the drum in 1898 and four boys, two of them brothers, fell to the bottom.	North Ayrshire	By 1895–By 1944	Coal
Springhill Colliery An Ayrshire pit where a hand-turned fan stood every weekend and gas was cleared for hours before work, until it exploded in 1917.	North Ayrshire	to After 1924	Coal
Drumpellier Colliery A Coatbridge pit where gunpowder fired instead of a safety explosive set the coal dust alight in 1898.	North Lanarkshire	to After 1902	Coal
Barrwood Colliery A Kilsyth pit that burned for days in 1878 and had to be flooded with seventeen men still inside.	North Lanarkshire	to By 1912	Coal, Ironstone
Edmonstone Colliery An early Newcomen-engine colliery, where thirteen men and women entombed in 1839 crawled out through a flooded air passage.	Midlothian	from Before 1725	Coal
Pentireglaze Mine A silver-lead mine under the sea off Pentire, where miners heard ships passing overhead.	Cornwall	By 1580–1857	Lead, Silver
Pednandrea Mine A Redruth mine whose telescope-like chimney, cut down twice, still dominates the town.	Cornwall	Early 18th century–1880 or 1891	Tin, Copper
Robroyston Colliery A Glasgow pit where an overwind in 1924 threw one cage into the headgear and the other down the shaft.	Glasgow	to By 1933	Coal, Ironstone
Quarrelton Colliery Pits on one of Britain's thickest coal seams, where two men lived ten days on scraps of oatcake after a flood.	Renfrewshire	from By 1634	Coal
Carbarns Colliery A pit by a graveyard where the manager himself died trying to clear the gas.	North Lanarkshire	to By 1909	Coal
Starlaw Shale Pit The shale pit of an early West Lothian oil works, where a soot fire in the shaft killed eight.	West Lothian	from c. 1867	Oil Shale
Bogles Hole Pit An ironworks pit where a single door left open over a weekend killed a whole shift.	Glasgow	—	Coal
Dykehead Colliery A shaft fire in 1861 from which volunteers hauled out twenty-eight men by hand.	South Lanarkshire	—	Coal
Commonhead Colliery A pit where gas was cleared by men waving their jackets, and where seventeen died in 1850.	North Lanarkshire	to By 1872	Coal
Victoria Pit, Nitshill Said to be the deepest pit in Scotland, and the scene of one of its worst explosions.	Glasgow	—	Coal
Spearne Moor Mine A St Just tin mine paying its shareholders dividends in the 1850s, one of whose engines ended up in Wales.	Cornwall	from By 1855	Tin, Copper
Wheal Enys A Porkellis tin mine whose engine house went to build the village chapel.	Cornwall	By 1815–c. 1860	Tin
Wheal Luna A St Agnes tin working first named in a record of 1528.	Cornwall	from By 1528	Tin
Wheal Prudence A copper mine that sank a shaft on a sea stack, reached across a wooden bridge.	Cornwall	By 1812–1868	Copper
Droskyn Mine Perhaps the oldest tin workings in Cornwall, with a waterwheel chamber carved out of the cliff.	Cornwall	to c. 1830s	Tin
Perran St George One of Perranporth's 'two mighty mines', whose quarrel with Wheal Leisure ended in a lawsuit that shut them both.	Cornwall	By 1589–1909 (Good Fortune shaft)	Copper, Tin
Wheal Glynn A Crimean War 'bubble mine' that lasted five years and left behind the most decorative chimney in East Cornwall.	Cornwall	1854–1859	Lead, Silver
Trevoole Mine Its last owners chased a rumour of the Great Flat Lode and found nothing; the engine house they built for it still stands.	Cornwall	1825–August 1891	Copper, Tin