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Mine	Region	Worked	Commodities
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
Craddock Moor Mine A Caradon copper mine that grew from 22 to 230 workers in seven years and was gone within twenty.	Cornwall	1844–1874	Copper
Deane Colliery A Bolton pit known by three names, the last of them taken from the pub across the road.	Greater Manchester	1868–October 1960	Coal
Hayeswood Colliery A Somerset pit that broke into flooded old workings in 1845 and drowned eleven men and boys.	Somerset	c. 1750–c. 1862	Coal
Wheal Jenkin A Caradon tin mine rebuilt in the 1880s with engines moved from its larger neighbour, and closed within ten years.	Cornwall	1824–1890	Tin
Wheal Langford A Cornish silver mine whose pumping engine went to the East London Waterworks.	Cornwall	Before 1824–1856	Silver, Copper, Lead
Gurnard's Head Mine A cliff-edge copper mine whose first shaft needed a stone collar to keep out the sea.	Cornwall	Before 1821–1877	Copper
Giew Mine For a short time in the early 1920s, the only working mine in Cornwall.	Cornwall	Mid 18th century–1923	Tin
Goginan Mine A Cardiganshire silver-lead mine worked by three centuries of adventurers, whose shares rose eighty-fold in two years under the Taylors.	Ceredigion	before 1640–1886	Lead, Silver, Zinc
Wherry Mine A Georgian tin mine sunk into the sea bed off Penzance, worked from a turret and a trestle bridge until a ship smashed it.	Cornwall	c. 1778–1840	Tin
Crimea Colliery A colliery that lasted only eight years but left one of the most complete mid-Victorian pit-head layouts in Wales, now scheduled.	Neath Port Talbot	1854–1862	Coal
Basset and Grylls Mine A Wendron tin mine where a pond of dressing-floor slimes fell through into the workings in 1858, and whose engine house was rebuilt away from the hole.	Cornwall	1845–1938	Tin
Stanrigg Colliery The pit where peat moss poured into the workings in 1918 and entombed nineteen men and boys, eleven of whom still lie there.	North Lanarkshire	to 1918	Coal
Blaentillery Colliery Where the Coal Board sank half a million pounds into a drift that failed within months, and small operators then kept working until the 2010s.	Torfaen	1899–after July 2011	Coal
Clitherbeck Colliery A moor pitted with bell-pit mounds, where a self-made colliery owner fought his landlord for eight years over a drainage tunnel.	North Yorkshire	16th century–1860s	Coal
Broomstair Colliery A Tameside pit that drowned, was written off, and came back to employ more than 360 men before its final closure.	Greater Manchester	by 1809–1898	Coal
Foggs Colliery A canal-side Bolton pit where ten men died in a fire in 1877 and ten more in a falling cage thirty years later.	Greater Manchester	1820s–May 1912	Coal
Oakthorpe Colliery The colliery that kept the Newcomen engine now preserved at Dartmouth working for nearly ninety years, and whose old seam smouldered under the village in 1985.	Leicestershire	1787–October 1885	Coal
Nebo Level A Cory Brothers house-coal level that ran a mile and a half into the mountain and outlived its parent pit's house-coal shaft.	Rhondda Cynon Taf	to July 1953	Coal
Tewgoed Colliery An Afan valley colliery whose Welsh-speaking men argued their pay disputes in the columns of the Welsh press in the 1870s and 1880s.	Neath Port Talbot	by 1860–1936	Coal, Fireclay
Wernlas Colliery A three-man level of 1902 that grew to 160 men under the Plymouth and Llewellyn combines before closing in the depression.	Merthyr Tydfil	1902–1935	Coal
Treaman Colliery Alaw Goch's pit at Aberaman, the bard-coalowner's Williams' Pit, closed as unremunerative after the 1910 strike.	Rhondda Cynon Taf	c. 1853–1911	Coal
Lower Varteg Colliery Deakin's 1899 slope, which ran for nearly sixty years and whose adit has been restored as a memorial to it.	Torfaen	1898–26 January 1957	Coal, Ironstone
Collena Colliery A small Ely valley drift whose 1874 sale notice lists a complete Victorian colliery yard, from coke ovens to weighbridge.	Rhondda Cynon Taf	by 1865–1910	Coal
Varteg Red Ash Level A wet hillside drift on the edge of the coalfield, worked by the Varteg coal owners and then the Coal Board until its last coal went too deep to pump.	Torfaen	1907–24 September 1956	Coal
Tytalwyn Colliery A Kenfig Hill slant drowned on Christmas Eve 1909, pumped out and restarted, and later wanted by the Coal Board for its neighbour Aberbaiden.	Bridgend	late 1890s–7 June 1950	Coal
Raglan Colliery The pit where the breakaway Miners' Industrial Union found its first leader in 1926, and whose men struck in 1929 rather than be forced to join it.	Bridgend	c. 1900–15 June 1935	Coal
Penybont Colliery The first steam-coal pit at Abertillery, where the future MP Ness Edwards went underground on his thirteenth birthday.	Blaenau Gwent	1850–1938	Coal
Fforchneol Colliery A shopkeeper's colliery that killed one of its owners during the sinking, ruined the other, and lost its overman in a drunken Christmas Day winding.	Rhondda Cynon Taf	1869–1891	Coal
Brynwith Colliery A gas-coal slant whose owners sided with the breakaway Miners' Industrial Union, and whose 1909 strike ended with a crowd chasing two working miners home across a brook.	Bridgend	c. 1904–1935	Coal
Cwmciwc Colliery A small colliery on the coalfield's twisted southern edge, where seams that stood on end defeated three owners in under twenty years.	Rhondda Cynon Taf	1904–1921	Coal
Gray Colliery A Tillery company pit that spent its last twenty years as a ventilation shaft and as the place where new recruits to the industry were trained.	Blaenau Gwent	1893–11 March 1950	Coal
Ystradgynlais Colliery A Swansea Valley anthracite colliery whose flooding in 1893 bankrupted its company, and which grew to some 450 men before the Amalgamated Anthracite combine closed it in 1938.	Powys	c. 1874–December 1938	Coal
South Rhondda Colliery A Llanharan colliery making coal and firebricks whose closure let its water into the neighbouring Meiros pit.	Rhondda Cynon Taf	1884–1927 or 1929	Coal, Fireclay
Lower Deep Colliery An ironworks pit at Blaina that employed over five hundred and then served as Beynon's pumping shaft.	Blaenau Gwent	Early 19th century or 1860–1 September 1923	Coal, Ironstone
Bedlinog Drift A Taff Bargoed drift of the Dowlais steel company, closed as uneconomic in 1956 with its company dissolved days later.	Merthyr Tydfil	1929–31 March 1956	Coal
Penydarren Colliery The Dowlais ironworks' 1835 pits, where accidents came weeks apart in 1870 and which pumped water for thirty years after they stopped winding coal.	Merthyr Tydfil	1835–1893 or 1895 (coal)	Coal
Bryn Navigation Colliery A Maesteg-area colliery that was among the first in South Wales to fight coal dust by water infusion at the face.	Neath Port Talbot	c. 1896–7 June 1963 (production)	Coal
Braichycymmer Colliery One Garw Valley name for a cluster of hillside levels and Ffaldau's big third shaft, which together employed well over a thousand men.	Bridgend	from By 1878	Coal
Carway Fawr Colliery A £30 million anthracite drift, the coalfield's last big project, that reached its seam and was abandoned without mining a ton.	Carmarthenshire	1986–1989 (mothballed)	Coal
Brynderi Colliery An anthracite slant re-equipped for £50,000 by a London company in the late 1920s and sold up within a few years.	Powys	1923–1932 or 1933	Coal
George Pit A short-lived Powell Duffryn pit high above Cwmpennar, reached by an incline on which five men riding forbidden wagons were killed in 1886.	Rhondda Cynon Taf	1881 (sinking)–1905 or 1909	Coal
Rhiw Colbren Colliery Hillside levels above Abertillery that outlived three private owners and closed under the National Coal Board in 1950.	Blaenau Gwent	1886–7 April 1950	Coal
Millbrook Colliery A pair of Kendon valley levels worked for more than a century, from the 1820s to about 1940.	Caerphilly	c. 1825–Around 1940	Coal
New Dynant Colliery A Gwendraeth anthracite pit and slant that grew from 31 men to over 500 in a dozen years and dwindled to 18 by the end.	Carmarthenshire	1901–c. 1947 to 1952	Coal, Anthracite
Lanelay Colliery A Pontyclun colliery that changed names as often as owners, from Lan-Elay to Cardiff Navigation and back to Lanelay.	Rhondda Cynon Taf	Early 1850s–Mid 1930s	Coal
Blaencaegurwen Colliery An Amman Valley anthracite drift where the Wales scrum-half Tudor Williams, 23, was electrocuted in 1922.	Neath Port Talbot	By 1884–Before 1935	Coal, Anthracite
Wrexham and Acton Colliery A Rhosddu colliery that employed nearly a thousand men, closed in 1924 to send its miners to Gresford.	Wrexham	1868–1924	Coal
Caedefaid Colliery Maesteg's most important colliery in the 1880s, a coal-and-ironstone level of the Llynfi ironmasters, where a fall in 1875 killed a Cornish father, his son and a kinsman.	Bridgend	1863 or 1867–1908	Coal, Ironstone
Bryngwyn Colliery A Bedwas pit drowned out in 1893 when its neighbours stopped pumping; its unusual 1868 engine house survives, listed Grade II*.	Caerphilly	1860s–June 1903	Coal
Glanddu Colliery A Pengam level shared by several coal owners, none of whom inspected its road, until a five-ton stone killed two men in 1875.	Caerphilly	By 1842–June 1931	Coal
Quarry Level A Glyn valley level where a police baton charge in the 1926 lockout led to Arthur Jenkins, father of Roy Jenkins, going to prison.	Torfaen	c. 1912–1943	Coal
Graham's Navigation Colliery A Tredegar pit of 1843 that went through three names, from its sinker's First Class Pit to the No. 9 to Graham's Navigation.	Blaenau Gwent	1843–c. 1925	Coal
Daren Colliery A Hughes Vein level at Trebanos, opened and reopened by four companies before the NCB worked it by the old stall system until 1964.	Neath Port Talbot	1906–17 October 1964	Coal
Coed-y-Moeth Colliery A Powell Duffryn pit at Cwmsyfiog that cost £33,292 to sink in 1893 and was abandoned after only seventeen years of flooding.	Caerphilly	1893–1910	Coal
Woodfield Colliery A Mynyddislwyn level near Pontllanfraith worked from 1815, whose big lump coal took first prize at the 1909 Newport Carnival.	Caerphilly	1815–c. 1930	Coal
Gwaelod-y-Waun Colliery A small Mynyddislwyn level east of Aberbargoed, first tied by an incline tramway to coke ovens, that lasted from the 1870s to 1950.	Caerphilly	Mid 1870s–1950	Coal
Cwmtillery Red Ash Colliery A run of small levels in the Tillery valley that worked the Red Ash seam on and off for sixty years, the last of them opened in 1934 at Llanerch Padarn.	Blaenau Gwent	1888–January 1949	Coal
Penllwyngwent Colliery A Cory Brothers coking-coal drift at Ogmore Vale whose men won £1,500 in court in 1937 after the owners locked them out for fear of a stay-down strike.	Bridgend	1905 or 1906–28 February 1969	Coal
Graig Colliery, Aberdare The Waynes' steam-coal pit on Mynydd Graig, where in 1871 a visiting Somerset farmer drowned in the sump after a signalling mix-up.	Rhondda Cynon Taf	1834–c. 1901	Coal
Kendon Colliery A small Mynyddislwyn level of about 1810 where, in 1842, boys of seven to nine worked as colliers and air-door boys.	Caerphilly	c. 1810–1941	Coal
North Duffryn Colliery A Plymouth ironworks pit of 1837 whose child workers, some only six years old, gave evidence to the 1842 inquiry that led to the Mines Act.	Merthyr Tydfil	1837–1908	Coal
Cefn Brithdir Colliery The Rhymney Iron Company's house-coal pit known to everyone as the 'George', after the inn, where water burst from behind an old stopping and killed two men in 1888.	Caerphilly	1873 (sinking)–January 1921	Coal
Hollybush Colliery A house-coal level with a hundred-foot shaft built only to lift its coal to wagon height, where four men suffocated tending an underground boiler in 1881.	Caerphilly	c. 1860–1921	Coal
Bwlch-y-Garn Pit Crawshay Bailey's last and most modern Beaufort pit, the only one there wound by steam, with its own railway carrying the colliers to work.	Blaenau Gwent	November 1853–1877 or 1878	Coal, Iron
Dillwyn Colliery An anthracite slant at Seven Sisters closed in 1966 after output per shift fell to barely half a ton, its men sent to Treforgan.	Neath Port Talbot	1884–April 1966	Coal
Hendy Merthyr Colliery Drift mines at the head of the Clydach whose trams were hauled up the valley by narrow-gauge steam locomotives.	Swansea	1927–11 November 1960	Coal
Clydach Merthyr Colliery A Graigola-seam drift so free of gas that its men used carbide lamps, with a blacksmith's shop and steam boilers underground.	Swansea	1863–1961	Coal
Vivian Colliery A Six Bells steam-coal pit of Powell's Tillery company, three of whose sinkers died in a misfire in 1890; after 1958 it served as Six Bells Colliery's downcast.	Blaenau Gwent	1889 (sinking)–1958	Coal
Machen Colliery Opened in the 1840s to fire the Morgan family's limekilns, wrecked by bankruptcy after an 1858 explosion, then reborn as Pentwyn Colliery with nearly 300 men.	Caerphilly	1840s–Before 1932	Coal
Blaencuffin Level A hillside level above Llanhilleth worked for two hundred years, from 1801 to 2001, and in 1830 the goal of an early steam locomotive trial.	Blaenau Gwent	1801–April 2001	Coal
Glyn-nant-ddu Colliery An early shaft above Abersychan that may still have wound its coal by water power around 1880, unusually late for the district.	Torfaen	Before 1830–May 1904	Coal
Winch Fawr Colliery A small Crawshay shaft and level above Heolgerrig whose forgotten shaft reappeared when a landslip opened it in 2007.	Merthyr Tydfil	Mid 19th century–March 1924	Coal
Castle Pit, Troedyrhiw The first Cyfarthfa pit sunk to sell coal rather than feed the ironworks, it employed over 1,300 men at its height; its site now lies under the A470.	Merthyr Tydfil	1866–1935	Coal
Brombil Colliery A copper-smelters' level above Taibach that met the Goytre Level underground and exported its surplus coal to Ireland.	Neath Port Talbot	c. 1780–By 1878	Coal
Wingfield Colliery A pair of Bargoed pits whose southern half raised 85,000 tons in its best year, 1881.	Caerphilly	c. 1871–1892	Coal
Cilhaul Colliery A Darran valley house-coal pit where women still worked at the screens in the 1870s, later the site of Ogilvie Colliery.	Caerphilly	1864–By 1918	Coal
Troedrhiwgwair Colliery A Sirhowy valley level worked on the double stall method, which took out every ton of coal.	Blaenau Gwent	c. 1865–Late 1920s	Coal
Broom Colliery One of the last attempts to mechanise the old Pembrokeshire anthracite field, defeated by a fault after five years.	Pembrokeshire	1850s–1938	Coal
Jeffreston Colliery A Pembrokeshire anthracite venture whose largest shareholder asked the court to wind it up four years after it opened.	Pembrokeshire	1876–1914	Coal
Reynolton Colliery A Tenby anthracite pit whose 1904 prospectus sold its coal on the strength of the Burton brewers' custom.	Pembrokeshire	By 1901–1921	Coal
Upper Bank Pit A four-year pit near Llansamlet where 150 men escaped a sudden flood and a missing boy was found safe in a floating tram.	Swansea	1904–12 December 1908	Coal