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Mine	Region	Worked	Commodities
Biteabout Colliery A one-shaft pit near Lowick whose 72-year-old manager fell to his death down it in 1873.	Northumberland	By 1873–before 1902	Coal
Stiddle Hill Colliery A high-moorland pit near Bellingham at nearly 1,000 feet, whose stone chimney and blocked drift still stand.	Northumberland	c. 1873–August 1931	Coal
Chatton Colliery A tiny Cooper Eye pit worked by a handful of men from the 1840s until a fault ended it in 1903.	Northumberland	1840s–20 January 1903	Coal
Melkridge Colliery A Melkridge landsale pit that sold coal to farms and quarries, then grew to 67 men on the eve of its 1940 closure.	Northumberland	c. 1877–1940	Coal
West Hunwick Colliery A Hunwick pit that firebrick makers kept working for its Busty coal and fireclay into the 1930s.	County Durham	By 1873–1930s	Coal
Gatherick Colliery A small north Northumberland colliery with roots in the 1600s, whose 1819 shaft section survives.	Northumberland	Late 17th century–1865	Coal
Lowick Colliery A three-decade landsale pit by the Low stream near Lowick, its shafts now hollows in the fields.	Northumberland	1860s–by 1897	Coal
Jesmond Colliery An early 19th-century Newcastle colliery whose owner rationed his coal to the best in 1827, with a pit in Jesmond Vale sunk in 1829.	Tyne and Wear	1810s–by 1860	Coal
Hepscott Colliery A Morpeth-district pit whose 1865 coal and air shafts stood side by side, later worked from the Isabella Pit until 1924.	Northumberland	By 1865–1924/25	Coal
Hunwick Colliery A Bolckow Vaughan pit at Hunwick that employed 419 people in 1883, linked by waggonway across the Wear to Newfield.	County Durham	By 1846–20 August 1921	Coal
Hewas Water Mine The last of the Hewas mines at Sticker, a small 1919 tin working said to have sent out 24 tons of black tin a month until 1926.	Cornwall	1919–1926	Tin
Kit Tin Mine A minuscule Dartmoor tin mine with every part of a mine in one field, famed for its yellow diamond tin and a piskie's gold.	Devon	By 1799–1904	Tin
Kepwick Colliery A limeburner's one-shaft coal pit of 1762 on the Hambleton escarpment, dead within a year.	North Yorkshire	1762–1763	Coal
Oakwood Colliery (Pontrhydyfen) Sixty slants above Pontrhydyfen, from the copper company's ironstone levels of 1848 to the drift where a shot killed four men in 1920.	Neath Port Talbot	c. 1848–1927	Coal, Iron
Old Castle Colliery (Tonna) A ten-man level below the Ivy Tower where a petrol pump's fumes killed two colliers in 1913 and felled three rescue parties.	Neath Port Talbot	from c. 1865	Coal
Headless Cross Colliery A sixty-man Shotts pit that reached the National Coal Board in 1947 and was abandoned six years later.	North Lanarkshire	By 1873 (No. 1, Dymock)–1953 (No. 2 plan)	Coal
Lady Rashleigh Mine The Luxulyan Valley's other metal mine, retried in 1881 and left as an ivy-grown office in the woods.	Cornwall	By 1850s–1881	Tin
Trevarrack United A Lelant tin mine that sank an engine shaft 62 fathoms by 1873 for tin only in small quantities, and left a burrow in a hedge.	Cornwall	from 1871	Tin
Stormsdown Mine A retired stockbroker's private tin mine with the only Hathorn Davey differential engine in the West Country, which lost him £46,500 in six years.	Devon	Before 1840 (trial adits)–1909	Tin, Arsenic
Sortridge Consols The Horrabridge copper mine whose 1855 engine was started under a triumphal arch of evergreens and whose dumps built an airfield.	Devon	1853 (reopened)–1871	Copper, Tin, Arsenic
Swan Colliery Seashore levels at Baglan that opened in 1858, broke two companies in 1867 and were abandoned with the Park pit in 1887.	Neath Port Talbot	c. 1858–1887	Coal
Sled Shoe Colliery Forty pits on Blakey Ridge whose soft mucky lime coal the farmers would not buy unless there was none else.	North Yorkshire	By 1768–1796	Coal
Weather Cote Colliery A Bilsdale lime-coal pit worked by two or three men with eight corves and a pair of bellows, whose mounds still stand in the field.	North Yorkshire	December 1781–c. 1795	Coal
Hawkmoor Mine A four-shaft Tamar copper mine kept going by calls on 8,192 shareholders beside the richest mine in Europe.	Cornwall	1846–1867	Copper, Tin
Great Lever Colliery The Earl of Bradford's Bolton pit, which grew from 183 to 437 men in the 1900s and sold its coal for gas, house and factory.	Greater Manchester	1855–1920	Coal
Carnelloe Consols A fifteen-man cliff mine over Porthglaze Cove, worked by water power alone, whose wheelpit still looks out to Gurnard's Head.	Cornwall	1853–1874	Tin, Copper
Gem Mine A little Walkham tin mine whose engine shaft was christened Lucy's with strong beer in 1871 and filled with Brunel's viaduct stone in 1965.	Devon	1855–1874	Tin
Blayshaw Gill Mine A poor Nidderdale lead level kept going by its richer neighbour at Lolly Scar, which raised a few dozen tons in fifteen years.	North Yorkshire	By 1870 (earlier old workings)–1909–1910	Lead
Appletree Mine A hot, badly ventilated copper mine on the cliffs east of Charlestown that paid £60 a share in 1855 and is now built over.	Cornwall	By 1840–1866	Copper
Blaen Baglan Colliery A hillside colliery named from the derelict manor house of Blaen Baglan, whose tangled record runs from 1842 to a last listing of seven men in 1923.	Neath Port Talbot	By 1842–1879	Coal
Ankness Colliery The earliest dated coal working on the North York Moors, leased by the Duncombes of Helmsley in 1715 and measured by the acre and the inch of seam.	North Yorkshire	By 1715–c. 1799	Coal
Plessey Colliery An eighteenth-century colliery whose coal went to Blyth on wooden rails, one of the oldest railways in the north-east.	Northumberland	By 1709–c. 1812	Coal
Micklam Fireclay Mine A clifftop fireclay mine on the Cumberland coast that lined Workington's steel furnaces, still at work in 1981.	Cumbria	to 1981	Fireclay, Coal
Oakwellgate Colliery A Gateshead town-centre pit greeted with church bells in 1842 and drowned sixteen years later.	Tyne and Wear	1842–1858	Coal
Holmes Colliery, Rotherham A Rotherham town-edge pit whose shaft was kept as a pumping station into the 1930s.	South Yorkshire	by 1854	Coal
Brownhills Colliery A Brownhills pumping pit that drained a whole common's workings into the reservoir now called Chasewater.	Staffordshire	by 1849	Coal
Brightside Colliery A Sheffield colliery where five men died together in 1867 when the winding rope broke.	South Yorkshire	1855–1886	Coal
Stacksteads Colliery A fifty-man Rossendale pit that worked the Mountain mines for half a century and shut just before the Coal Board came.	Lancashire	By 1894–c. 1946	Coal
Low Laithes Colliery An Ossett colliery that grew to nearly 700 men before the First World War and was abandoned in 1928.	West Yorkshire	1855–1927	Coal
Barlborough Colliery A Staveley company pit where two datallers in their late sixties died together building a pack at a road junction.	Derbyshire	By 1878–c. 1928	Coal
Warrickhill Colliery A shaft explosion at Dreghorn that taught the inspector to call for ventilating openings in every sinking scaffold.	North Ayrshire	by 1856	Coal
Pather Colliery A Cambusnethan pit where a fireman and a collier were killed going down with naked lights after the ventilating furnace had been out for two days.	North Lanarkshire	by 1863	Coal
Galawhistle Pit A Glenbuck pit where a father was killed by a roof fall that injured two of his sons beside him.	East Ayrshire	by 1884	Coal
Ladylands Colliery A Shotts colliery that stood down to one man while it was sunk deeper, then came back to over a hundred.	North Lanarkshire	1890–1920	Coal, Ironstone
Collyshot Colliery A Coltness pit at Newmains that dwindled from nearly 150 men to two in sixteen years.	North Lanarkshire	By 1884–1910	Coal, Ironstone
Barncluith Colliery A Hamilton pit where two miners riding an empty rake against the rules were killed when it derailed and brought down the roof.	South Lanarkshire	c. 1880–1900	Coal
Strawberry Bank Colliery A Liversedge pit in the Better Bed coal, worked for half a century by the Liversedge Coal Company.	West Yorkshire	1866–1918	Coal
Fairhill Colliery A Hamilton pit of nearly four hundred men that wound down to sixty-five in ten years and was abandoned in 1906.	South Lanarkshire	By 1894–1906	Coal
Pathhead Colliery A family pit at New Cumnock that raised oil shale alongside its coal.	East Ayrshire	by 1893	Coal, Oil Shale
Holytown Colliery A Nimmo colliery whose steam engines ran its own brickworks, so short of pressure in 1937 that bricks could only be made on the back shift.	North Lanarkshire	by 1894	Coal, Fireclay
Ashgill Colliery A Dalserf colliery where a fireman and an engineman were killed in 1874 bratticing with naked lights instead of safety lamps.	South Lanarkshire	By 1869–1951	Coal
Swindridge Muir Colliery A pit near Beith where boys of twelve and thirteen died at the coal face in the 1860s.	North Ayrshire	1854–1905	Coal, Ironstone
Busbiehead Colliery A small Crosshouse pit where the inspector doubted a pitheadman's story after a fifteen-year-old was crushed coupling waggons.	East Ayrshire	By 1893–c. 1950	Coal, Fireclay
Holmes Colliery, Galston An Ayrshire pit where a pony driver drowned in 1888 riding into flooded workings after a straying pony.	East Ayrshire	by 1854	Coal
Loudoun Colliery A three-pit Galston colliery of the Ayrshire ironmasters where two sinkers died when a rope broke as they repaired the shaft.	East Ayrshire	By 1878–c. 1928	Coal
Grougar Colliery An Ayrshire ironmasters' pit where a thirteen-year-old pony driver died under a runaway race he had not finished coupling.	East Ayrshire	1855–c. 1890	Coal
Conyers Colliery A thirty-year Dewsbury Moor pit where a deputy was killed in 1899 firing a powder shot by electric battery.	West Yorkshire	1878–1908	Coal
Chidswell Colliery A Crawshaw and Warburton pit that grew to five hundred men in thirty years and was later folded into Shaw Cross.	West Yorkshire	1876–1924	Coal
Barnsmuir Colliery A small Slamannan pit that outlasted most of its district, still worked by a handful of men in the 1950s.	Falkirk	By 1880–c. 1955	Coal
Stonecraigs Colliery A Newmains colliery that ended its life as the Coltness company's pumping and coal-washing pit.	North Lanarkshire	By 1863–1910	Coal, Fireclay
Bailliesmuir Colliery A Coltness mine where a shot that hung fire killed the brusher who went back to the face too soon.	North Lanarkshire	by 1894	Coal
Howmuir Colliery A Cleland pit whose manager died in 1902 going down a reopened shaft to save a sinker overcome by chokedamp.	North Lanarkshire	1905–1925	Coal
Herdshill Colliery A Coltness Iron Company mine whose 340 men in 1910 were scattered across a dozen villages, most in rented houses.	North Lanarkshire	by 1866	Coal, Fireclay
Waterloo Main Colliery A Leeds colliery founded by the engineer of the Portland breakwater, whose locomotives ran its coal along the roadside into the city.	West Yorkshire	c. 1854–1968	Coal
Fishley Colliery A large Black Country colliery where a fireman went into the workings in 1903 and was never seen again.	West Midlands	By 1866–c. 1945	Coal
Mottram Wood Colliery A small Barnsley pit in which gas killed a deputy in 1924 and three young men in 1943.	South Yorkshire	1908–1944	Coal
Easterhill Colliery An east-end Glasgow pit worked from the 1860s into the age of electric coal-cutters.	Glasgow	by 1867	Coal
Killingbeck Colliery A twenty-year east Leeds pit whose site has become a park.	West Yorkshire	c. 1865–1885	Coal
Hodroyd Colliery A shallow-seam Barnsley pit where three pony drivers aged 13 to 15 were killed by roof falls in seven years.	South Yorkshire	c. 1870–1922	Coal
Shaw Cross Colliery A twentieth-century Dewsbury pit that grew to nearly 900 men and worked on under the Coal Board into the late 1960s.	West Yorkshire	c. 1904–c. 1968	Coal
Giffnock Colliery A colliery on the edge of a Glasgow commuter suburb whose coal was too poor for the domestic grate and went to the gasworks instead.	Renfrewshire	c. 1850–c. 1926	Coal, Fireclay, Ironstone
East Roughrigg Colliery A Forrester family colliery whose coal went to bunker steamers from the Forth and Clyde ports.	Falkirk	By 1887–c. 1933	Coal, Ironstone
Blackston Colliery A Nimmo pit at Avonbridge that shrank to a pumping pit and came back twice on a smaller scale.	Falkirk	by 1894	Coal
Fairholm Colliery A Larkhall pit that went through five owners in thirty-five years, ending under United Collieries.	South Lanarkshire	1873–1908	Coal
Frankfield Colliery A ten-year Glasgow colliery whose manager and oversman were caught by an explosion while checking the idle pit during the 1921 strike.	Glasgow	1915–1925	Coal, Fireclay
Tulligarth Colliery A Clackmannan pit worked for some eighty years, whose recorded deaths all came from stone falling from the roof.	Clackmannanshire	By 1878–c. 1957	Coal, Fireclay
Kirkhill Colliery A Cambuslang pit whose owner, a local JP and parish council chairman, walked away from the lease in 1899 and left the factor offering to buy the gear.	South Lanarkshire	c. 1880–c. 1900	Coal, Fireclay
Carnock Colliery A twentieth-century Alloa Coal Company sinking near Bannockburn that went from a sinking crew to 500 men in fifteen years.	Stirling	c. 1905–c. 1935	Coal
Douglas Park Colliery A Bellshill pit of John Wilson's and then the Wilsons and Clyde company, where most recorded deaths came from falls at the face.	North Lanarkshire	By 1883–c. 1929	Coal
Carfin Colliery A Dixon colliery that raised coal, ironstone, oil shale and fireclay, and made bricks from its own bings into the 1940s.	North Lanarkshire	by 1853	Coal, Oil Shale, Fireclay, Ironstone
Lassodie Mill Colliery A Kelty pit where a reversed fault put the same coals above and below each other, and where a 1893 strike against 'Billy Fairplay' collapsed after five weeks.	Fife	c. 1890–1928	Coal
Penston Colliery The pits of a coal barony near Tranent whose coal was famous from the 14th century and paid £400 a year in Cromwell's time.	East Lothian	1792–1918	Coal
Craighead Colliery A Baird pit at Blantyre whose manager was taken to court over ventilation after a miner died of burns in 1882.	South Lanarkshire	By 1877–c. 1935	Coal
Allanton Colliery A Ferniegair colliery of nearly a thousand men in 1920, with its own Double, Top, Boiler and Deputy Rows.	South Lanarkshire	By 1870–c. 1928	Coal
Bothwell Park Colliery A Baird pit of over 800 men near Bellshill whose haulage roads were notorious for runaway races of hutches.	North Lanarkshire	c. 1874–1932	Coal
Cowdenbeath No. 7 Colliery The town-centre pit at Cowdenbeath whose mineral trains crossed the High Street, worked for nearly a century until 1960.	Fife	c. 1869–1960	Coal, Ironstone
Espieside Colliery A Coatbridge colliery in the Gartsherrie district, first owned by William Baird and Company and worked for over sixty years until its last pit was abandoned in 1920.	North Lanarkshire	1869–1920	Coal
Balquhatstone Colliery A Slamannan colliery of the 1850s to 1905 whose workforce fell from 377 to 58 in its last eleven years.	Falkirk	By 1855–1905	Coal
Broomrigg Colliery A Bonnybridge colliery of 641 men in 1920 where an early electric coal cutter killed its fireman in 1913.	Falkirk	By 1894–1930	Coal, Fireclay
Clydeside Colliery An Uddingston colliery of over 450 men where firedamp killed a man in January 1924 and another in August.	South Lanarkshire	By 1893–c. 1933	Coal
Ellismuir Colliery A Baillieston colliery whose two numbered pits alone employed over a thousand men in 1910.	Glasgow	By 1860–c. 1933	Coal, Fireclay
Birkrigg Colliery A Larkhall colliery of the Darngavil Coal Company that grew from 30 men in 1894 to nearly 200 in the early 1920s.	South Lanarkshire	By 1890–c. 1932	Coal
Glenclelland Colliery A Wishaw colliery worked for some eighty years, from about 1850, that raised oil shale and ironstone with its coal.	North Lanarkshire	By 1850–1930	Coal, Oil Shale, Ironstone
Belhaven Colliery A Wishaw colliery of nearly 500 men in 1900 whose dead included Lizzie Ralston, a 19-year-old coal cleaner caught on an unfenced shaft.	North Lanarkshire	By 1900–1923	Coal
Dalquhandy Colliery A Coalburn colliery of up to 271 men whose ground was later dug out as the largest opencast coal site in Western Europe.	South Lanarkshire	c. 1890–c. 1922	Coal
Grasshill Colliery A Baird colliery of over 200 men at Glenbuck, the village that produced Bill Shankly, worked until its seams were abandoned in 1933.	East Ayrshire	By 1858–1933	Coal
South Blair Colliery A small Harthill mine of the Virtuewell seam, opened in 1900, whose men in 1910 lived mostly in rented houses in Harthill and West Benhar.	North Lanarkshire	1900–1935	Coal
Hartwoodhill Colliery A Shotts colliery that fed its own shale-oil works in the 1860s and became a Shotts Iron Company pit of nearly 300 men before its abandonment in 1914.	North Lanarkshire	By 1868–1914	Coal, Fireclay, Ironstone
Ormiston Station Colliery An Ormiston Coal Company pit sunk beside Ormiston station in 1880, whose recorded closure in 1901 is contradicted by plans of 1909 and a workforce of 196 in 1910.	East Lothian	1880–c. 1910	Coal, Fireclay
Barglachan Colliery A William Baird and Company pit near Auchinleck, worked from the 1840s to the 1920s and tied to the Lugar Iron Works by its own mineral railway.	East Ayrshire	By 1846–c. 1924	Coal