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Mine	Region	Worked	Commodities
Henllys Colliery A mountain-top pit that fed a brickworks making nearly three million firebricks a year for the iron trade.	Torfaen	c.1815–1928	Coal, Fireclay
Beili Glas Colliery A Loughor farm pit that came and went for half a century, photographed from the air, it is thought, by a German reconnaissance aircraft.	Swansea	By 1886–30 September 1932	Coal
Graig Fawr Colliery A Red Ash pit where two colliers died after working six and a half hours in the wrong place with no official calling.	Blaenau Gwent	1887–1928	Coal
Mountain Colliery, Buckley One of George Watkinson and Sons' Buckley pits, now under a street that keeps its name.	Flintshire	1890s–1929	Coal
Raven Colliery An Amman Valley anthracite pit named for the Dynevor raven, which went through at least eight owners in eighty years.	Carmarthenshire	By 1854–1936	Coal
Blaenrhondda Colliery The first pit at the head of the Rhondda Fawr, whose shafts lived on as two of Fernhill's pits.	Rhondda Cynon Taf	1859–1920s	Coal
Blaennant Colliery An ironworks pit at Abernant that passed through five owners in some eighty years, from the Aberdare Iron Company to Powell Duffryn.	Rhondda Cynon Taf	c.1840–1927	Coal
Baglan Hall Colliery A colliery that changed its name three times in ten years and outlived two bankrupt companies before its abandonment.	Neath Port Talbot	1861–November 1887	Coal
De Winton Colliery A short-lived Aberdare pit remembered locally as 'Pwll Spite', on the ground of the town's hospital.	Rhondda Cynon Taf	1880–1901	Coal
Dare Colliery The other half of the Park and Dare, beside which the earliest houses of Cwmparc seem to have grown up.	Rhondda Cynon Taf	1865–1955 (merged with Parc)	Coal
Knack Mine A remote tin mine re-equipped in 1877 with a waterwheel hauled 25 miles across the moor from Gobbett.	Devon	1835–1879	Tin
Redlake China Clay Works A clay works in the middle of the moor that sent its clay eight miles downhill as liquid through a pipe.	Devon	1911–1932	China Clay
Haytor Iron Mine A magnetite 'lode stone' mine known since the sixteenth century, which gave its name to the pseudo-mineral haytorite.	Devon	By 16th century–After 1918	Iron
Swelltor Quarry The corbels cut here for London Bridge in 1902 were never collected and still lie beside the line.	Devon	19th century–1938	Granite
Foggintor Quarry The quarry that supplied Nelson's Column, whose masons' strike in 1842 held up its building.	Devon	c.1820–1906	Granite
Gobbett Tin Mine A small and seldom profitable mine that outlasted five companies over ninety years, then sold its waterwheel to a mine across the moor.	Devon	1790s–1887	Tin
Great Wheal Eleanor Promoted in 1875 as needing no engine or coal because the water would do everything; its wheelhouse is among the finest on Dartmoor.	Devon	1874–1884	Tin
Ringleshutes Mine A Victorian tin mine sunk into medieval openworks, with a 'barracks' where the miners lived on the moor.	Devon	1852 (shafts)–1855	Tin
Keaglesborough Mine A Tudor tin working whose later stamping mills were driven by a leat carried across the Devonport Leat.	Devon	from Early 16th century	Tin
Druid Mine Twenty years of hopeful investment, three bank and company failures and almost no copper, all recorded in an unusually complete archive.	Devon	1852–1872	Copper
Wheal Pool A lead and silver mine beside the Loe Pool, which needed an adit through the cliffs at Loe Bar to keep the lake out.	Cornwall	16th century–1914	Lead, Tin, Silver
Wendron Consols The mine whose dressing floors and old Wheal Roots workings became the Poldark Mine attraction.	Cornwall	1851–1869	Tin, Copper
Charlotte United Mine A mine renamed three times after its richer neighbours, whose engine house now stands in National Trust care above Chapel Porth.	Cornwall	c.1805 (North Towan)–1878	Copper
Great Condurrow Mine Built in 1906 for a third-hand engine, Woolf's engine house is one of the last ever raised in Cornwall; the mine also gave condurrite its name.	Cornwall	By 1815–1914	Tin, Copper
West Caradon Mine For a decade the rival of its famous neighbour South Caradon, yet now little more than tips and a single stack.	Cornwall	1837 (trials)–1874	Copper
Great Darren Mine A silver-lead lode worked beside a hillfort whose ramparts contain lead ore, perhaps mined since prehistory.	Ceredigion	By 1617 (Myddelton lease)–1890	Lead, Copper, Silver
Pennance Consols A small copper mine that built its only engine house in the very year the copper price collapsed.	Cornwall	17th century–1874	Copper
Rosewall Hill Mine A St Ives tin mine whose two engine chimneys still mark the skyline of Rosewall Hill.	Cornwall	By 1761–1876	Tin
Blue Hills Mine A tin mine in a valley still worked by tin streamers, with an engine house built of slate.	Cornwall	Early 18th century–1897	Tin, Arsenic
Pibble Mine A Cornish engine house on a remote Galloway hillside, one of only two to survive at Scotland's metal mines.	Dumfries and Galloway	1849–1855	Copper, Lead, Zinc
Sykes Mine Small lead workings on one of the Bowland anticlines whose limestone quarries are studied by geologists for their slump structures.	Lancashire	By 1767–By 1857	Lead, Barite
Brennand Mine A Bowland lead mine rediscovered by drain-diggers in 1865 and worked for just nine years.	Lancashire	1814 (lease)–1874	Lead, Zinc
Raygill Barytes Mine A barytes mine inside a lime quarry that also yielded Ice Age mammoth and hyena bones.	North Yorkshire	1855–1895	Barite, Limestone
Billy Bank Mine The last copper mine in Richmondshire, found by chert miners and reached along a cart road built over the river's edge.	North Yorkshire	1905 (levels)–1912	Copper
Llangynog Mine For a few years in the 1730s one of the largest lead producers in Europe, whose profits went to pay a Marquess's daughter's speculative debts.	Powys	c.1705–By 1880	Lead
Carnarvon Colliery A colliery begun in the eighteenth century whose lone brick chimney still stands beside the A484 at Bynea.	Carmarthenshire	1775–1927	Coal
Ynyscynon Colliery The pit by which the poet and coal owner Alaw Goch was known: David Williams of Ynyscynon.	Rhondda Cynon Taf	1843–1875	Coal
Cwmbargoed Colliery Water-balance pits that stopped in a drought, and where an overman was convicted after a collier died for want of pit props.	Merthyr Tydfil	1839–1924	Coal
Abernant No. 9 Pit A water-balance pit of 1840, photographed with women workers in traditional dress at its wooden headframe.	Rhondda Cynon Taf	1840–1910	Coal
Glengarw Colliery A Garw valley colliery that worked a seam formed where two others merge, and kept its Australian gold-rush nickname, the Ballarat.	Bridgend	1890s–1959	Coal
International Colliery A Garw valley pit that began as a small level and passed through five companies before nationalisation.	Bridgend	1874 (Pwllcarn level)–1968	Coal
Parc Colliery The pit that made Cwmparc, merged with its neighbour into the largest colliery in South Wales, with the Rhondda's first pithead baths.	Rhondda Cynon Taf	1864 (first coal)–1966	Coal
Aberbeeg South Colliery Its little steam fan engine, which ventilated the pit from 1924, survives in the collection of Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales.	Caerphilly	1925–1965	Coal
Navigation Colliery, Talywain Its engine house keeps the base of a Waddle fan, a rare survival of the large open fans once common at South Wales pits.	Torfaen	By 1878–1939	Coal
New Duffryn Colliery An ironworks colliery on the county border whose 1883 explosion needed two inquests, one for each county.	Caerphilly	1867–1920s	Coal
Colsterdale Colliery A Dales valley named after its colliers, its coal worked under Jervaulx Abbey in the Middle Ages.	North Yorkshire	from By 1400	Coal
Don Pedro Colliery A Normanton colliery named after the Emperor of Brazil, whose 1871 visit the town remembered in its pit's name.	West Yorkshire	1878–1912	Coal
Muiravonside Colliery A Nimmo colliery near Falkirk whose 1924 death, from gunpowder lit by a naked light, broke the 1919 explosives order.	Falkirk	By 1882–1926	Coal
Bonnyside Colliery Fireclay mines that supplied a Bonnybridge firebrick works for over seventy years, one reached by a 600-metre tunnel under the railway and a reservoir.	Falkirk	By 1894–1967	Fireclay, Coal
Ladyha Colliery An estate colliery reached by a tunnel built so that its coal wagons were hidden from Eglinton Castle.	North Ayrshire	1885 (No. 2 Pit sinking)–1934	Coal
Nethercroy Colliery A Carron Company pit on Croy Hill that revived pre-1859 ironstone workings and ended by raising only coking coal.	North Lanarkshire	c.1890–1914	Coal, Ironstone
Climpy Colliery A Wilsontown-district colliery where a corroded boiler exploded on a Sunday in 1870, killing two of the engineman's children.	South Lanarkshire	By 1870–After 1933	Coal
Loscoe Colliery A century-old Butterley pit through whose old workings the company sank its last Heanor colliery, Ormonde.	Derbyshire	c.1830 (sinking)–1933	Coal
Oakwell Colliery An Ilkeston pit of 1872 with over 700 men by 1910, closed within a few years, whose brickworks carried on until 1966.	Derbyshire	1872–1910	Coal
Marehay Colliery A Ripley coal and ironstone colliery whose tramway fed Morley Park Ironworks, worked from before 1837 into the 1920s.	Derbyshire	By 1837–After 1923	Coal, Ironstone
Tintern Quarry A Wye Valley quarry whose ballast trains kept the southern end of the Wye Valley Railway open for nearly eighteen years after the line closed to other goods.	Gloucestershire	1931–1981	Limestone
Panteg Colliery A Pontypool coal level of the Panteg steelworks' owners that grew to 350 men within two years, closed in 1926, and was revived under another company's name.	Torfaen	1915–1926	Coal
Butterworth Hall Colliery Milnrow's own pit, worked by the Oldham machine-makers Platt Brothers for more than forty years and joined by tramway to Tunshill.	Greater Manchester	1861 to 1864 (sinking)–1928	Coal
Bettws Llantwit Colliery A Tondu drift floated in 1873 on the promise of 500 tons a day, one of whose share certificates survives in the national museum.	Bridgend	1828–1935 (abandonment plan)	Coal
Huish Colliery A Radstock pit whose site became a geological SSSI for the unusually thick Lower Jurassic limestones exposed there.	Somerset	1820 (sinking)–1912	Coal
Chisworth Colliery A Chisworth drift in the Mountain Mine, heir to Chisworth and Ludworth coal leases going back to 1783, whose account book for 1865 to 1874 survives.	Derbyshire	By 1861–1896 (abandonment plan)	Coal
Eastern Valleys Black Vein Colliery A Cwmffrwdoer slant whose first attempt of 1900 failed to prove coal, but which employed more than 250 men by 1913.	Torfaen	1900 (trial)–1928 (abandonment)	Coal
Faskine Colliery On an estate whose coal and ironstone, an 1880s gazetteer says, were worked earlier than any others in the great Clydesdale mineral field.	North Lanarkshire	By 1835–After 1933	Coal, Ironstone
Tunshill Colliery A Pennine-edge pit where three men drowned in 1867 when the waters feeding Butterworth Hall Brook broke through old workings, and which was flooded again in 1887.	Greater Manchester	1861 to 1864 (sinking)–By 1895	Coal
Siston Hill Colliery An early Bristol-coalfield pit, recorded in an accident report of 1804, whose 1889 sale prospectus describes a Boulton and Watt winding engine able to raise 700 to 800 tons a day.	South Gloucestershire	c.1790–1876 (abandonment plan)	Coal
Waleswood Colliery A Rotherham-area colliery that outlived its coal as a pumping station and coke works, whose buildings and one of its locomotives both survive.	South Yorkshire	1860s–1948 (production)	Coal
Newbridge Colliery, Pontypridd An early Pontypridd pit whose 1845 winding engine, the Rhondda's first, still stands on a university campus.	Rhondda Cynon Taf	1844 (sinking)–1897	Coal
Barrow Colliery, Worsbrough A Furness steel company's Yorkshire pit that worked 109 years, saw seven men killed in a cage in 1907, and was where Scargill turned back from a picket line in 1985.	South Yorkshire	1873 or 1875 (sinking)–May 1985	Coal
Bonds Main Colliery A Staveley company pit whose workforce swung from 940 men to 39 in thirteen years, and whose village was cut away by the M1.	Derbyshire	1896–May 1949	Coal
Rotherham Main Colliery A steelmaker's colliery on Rotherham's doorstep that employed 2,000 men before 1914 and spent its last quarter-century barely working.	South Yorkshire	1890 (sinking)–1954	Coal
Glynfach Colliery A small Porth pit sunk in 1851 that changed hands three times before its last owners failed in 1881, a year before it closed.	Rhondda Cynon Taf	1851–1882	Coal
Palacecraig Colliery Pits on the only ground where the Palacecraig Blackband ironstone was ever worth working, run for coal and ironstone by the Baird ironmasters of Coatbridge.	North Lanarkshire	1854–1880	Coal, Ironstone
Gidlow Colliery A Wigan Coal and Iron pit whose shafts outlived its coal by over twenty years as a pumping station.	Greater Manchester	1857 (sinking)–1910 (production)	Coal
Carne Park Colliery A small Abercynon outcrop working that changed hands and closed again and again, surviving outside the nationalised industry into the 1960s.	Rhondda Cynon Taf	By 1864–1965	Coal
Llammarch Colliery An outcrop level on the Brynmawr moorland that may have fed the Clydach ironworks from the 1790s and worked on into the Coal Board's first months.	Blaenau Gwent	Possibly 1794–21 June 1947	Coal
Pencoed Colliery A century-old Loughor estuary colliery of the Llanelli copper and coal partnerships, where gas, dynamite and an unfenced shaft all took lives.	Carmarthenshire	1806–1905	Coal
Ludlows Colliery A deep Waldegrave estate pit at Radstock that worked for well over a century and a half, with Miners' Welfare pithead baths from 1940.	Somerset	Before 1790–1954	Coal
Rowhurst Colliery Shelton Colliery's Rowhurst pits, wired by rail straight into the Shelton iron and steel works and employing over 700 people at their height.	Staffordshire	to 1909	Coal
Homer Hill Colliery A Black Country Thick Coal pit where a roof fall loosed the gas that killed twelve men in 1867, and the inspector's case for safety lamps.	West Midlands	c.1865–March 1928	Coal, Fireclay, Ironstone
Lidgett Colliery A doctor's thin-seam pit, nicknamed the 'Pill Box Pit', where electric coal cutters were developed and patented in the 1890s.	South Yorkshire	1879–1911	Coal
Chell Colliery A small coal-and-ironstone pit at Chell where a lamp hung in the upcast shaft fired gas from old workings and killed the undermanager and two firemen.	Staffordshire	By 1855–By 1901	Coal, Ironstone
Church Gresley Colliery A Hastings family pit of 1829 that grew into a thousand-man colliery under the Moira Colliery Company.	Derbyshire	1829 (sinking)–1967 (merged)	Coal
Mells Colliery The last of the Vobster pits, where an 1868 shaft death led to a manslaughter charge that collapsed over the pit's 'complicated code of signals'.	Somerset	1863–1943	Coal
Pentrich Colliery An old village pit whose 1791 atmospheric engine, moved here from Oakerthorpe in 1841, survives in the Science Museum.	Derbyshire	By c.1750–1946	Coal, Ironstone
Birkacre Colliery A colliery sunk to feed the print and bleach works that rose on the site of Arkwright's burned Birkacre mill, closed on the eve of the Second World War.	Lancashire	1880 or c.1887–July 1939	Coal
Shakespeare Colliery Kent's first colliery, dug where the first Channel Tunnel had been abandoned, which drowned its sinkers, was shown off to shareholders with Newcastle coal, and never paid its way.	Kent	1896–December 1915	Coal
Nabb Colliery The one Rossendale pit its owners thought worth pithead baths, closed by the Coal Board only seven years after nationalisation.	Lancashire	By 1894–March 1954	Coal
Stockfield Colliery A deep Oldham-coalfield pit that had to tub out its neighbours' flooded workings to reach the Royley Mine at over 300 metres.	Greater Manchester	c.1865–1914	Coal
Pewfall Colliery An Ashton-in-Makerfield pit with eighty years of working and a long roll of the dead, and the setting of an 1892 mining novel.	Greater Manchester	c.1830–September 1911	Coal
Amman Anthracite Colliery An ironworks' anthracite pit at Brynamman that outlived the ironworks, revived by a new slant in 1908 and swept into the 1920s anthracite combines.	Carmarthenshire	By 1858–c.1931	Coal
Cincoed Colliery A farm-named Sirhowy Valley house-coal level that passed through four owners between the wars, revived by a one-man Coal Board licence in 1950.	Caerphilly	c.1915–1940	Coal
Salterford Drift Mine A post-war Coal Board drift that out-produced every other pit in its division in 1950, then vanished so completely under landscaping that nothing now shows.	Lancashire	1948–December 1959	Coal
Old Clough Colliery A Rossendale pit worked for a century without mechanical haulage, reopened in the 1960s through a pithead hidden in a farm barn.	Lancashire	c.1834–1935	Coal
Starbotton Mines A scatter of small eighteenth- and nineteenth-century lead levels on Starbotton Cam, with its own short-lived smelt mill below.	North Yorkshire	Early 1700s–1877	Lead
North End Colliery A Tonmawr level that survived its company's liquidation in 1928, and whose No. 2 level was still worked under licence in 1969.	Neath Port Talbot	c.1911–Mid 1930s	Coal
Cefn Bryn Colliery A hillside level whose owners were fined for 31 breaches of the Coal Mines Act in a single year while its men struck for fifteen months.	Bridgend	1901–1935	Coal
Cwmnantmoel Colliery A tiny Amman Valley slant whose owners, exploring its old workings in 1947, found the skeleton of a man missing for fourteen years.	Carmarthenshire	By 1923–1947 (licensed level)	Coal
Pantmawr Colliery An Ystradgynlais anthracite drift on the Swansea Valley Disturbance, where a miner of five weeks' standing was suffocated by shotfiring fumes in 1916.	Powys	By 1899–July 1922	Coal
Rhiwgarn Colliery A Tonyrefail level of twelve years and never more than about thirty men, worked by three owners in turn.	Rhondda Cynon Taf	1901–December 1912	Coal
Cwmnantygroes Colliery An early Abertillery level that changed from pillar and stall to a 900-yard longwall face in 1857.	Blaenau Gwent	c.1840–1908 (last recorded)	Coal