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Mine	Region	Worked	Commodities
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
Cultrigg Colliery A Fauldhouse colliery of over 500 men whose pithead burned in May 1929, with sixty men brought out by a safety shaft a mile away; it never reopened.	West Lothian	c. 1900–1929	Coal, Ironstone
Meta Colliery Devon Colliery's No. 3 pit near Fishcross, named after the managing director's mother, which supplied its own brickworks and briquetting plant until it closed in 1959.	Clackmannanshire	1923–1959	Coal, Fireclay
Rob Royd Colliery A Strafford Collieries pit at Dodworth, opened 1896 and closed 1935, later a pumping station.	South Yorkshire	1896–1935	Coal
Hartshay Colliery The Butterley Company's Hartshay Colliery north of Marehay, linked to Butterley ironworks by tramway and closed in 1931.	Derbyshire	By 1835–1931	Coal
Glascote Colliery A Tamworth colliery and clay works recorded from 1850, which worked coal, ironstone and fireclay from the same measures until its coal seams were abandoned in 1943.	Staffordshire	By 1850–1943	Coal, Fireclay
Sheriffyards Colliery An Alloa Coal Company colliery near Tillicoultry, sunk in the 1890s and employing 437 by 1910.	Clackmannanshire	1894–1921	Coal
Moel Faban Quarry A cluster of small Rachub slate workings that in 1903 became part of the Bethesda Co-operative Quarries, set up to employ men locked out of the Penrhyn quarry.	Gwynedd	Mid-19th century–before 1914	Slate
Bryn Hafod-y-Wern Quarry An early Ogwen valley slate pit that could never drain itself or get enough water, worked by the Royal Bangor Slate Company until the Pennants cut off its supply in 1884.	Gwynedd	By 1780–1884	Slate
Cook and Ddol Quarry Two linked slate pits above Llanberis that in 1906 passed to the National Co-operative Quarries, a trade-union-backed venture chaired by John Hodge.	Gwynedd	Early 19th century–early 20th century	Slate
Cefn Du Quarry One of the larger minor quarries above Llanberis, formed in 1802 from a cluster of small diggings and closed in 1928, which absorbed its neighbours one by one.	Gwynedd	1802–1928	Slate
Porth Neigwl Lead Mine The Llanengan lead mine at Tan yr Allt, its tall brick-topped chimney of about 1878 a landmark above Porth Neigwl.	Gwynedd	17th century–by 1889	Lead
Tan-yr-Allt Slate Quarry A Talysarn slate pit opened in 1805 and worked on and off for nearly two centuries, idle for years at a time and stopped again by the slate slump of 1913.	Gwynedd	1805–1980s	Slate
Braich Slate Quarry A Moel Tryfan slate pit worked from the 1820s, an early user of the rotary rock drill, that employed 124 men in 1882 and closed in 1911.	Gwynedd	c. 1820s–1911	Slate
Cwm Dwyfor Mine A short-lived copper and lead mine at the head of Cwm Pennant, reached by its own tramway branch and incline, whose company never escaped its money troubles and sold up in 1879.	Gwynedd	By 1873–1878	Copper, Lead
Gallt y Fedw Slate Quarry A small Nantlle slate quarry beside Dorothea, developed in the 1850s with saw tables working in the open air, that lasted until 1930.	Gwynedd	1850s–1930	Slate
Penrhyn Du Mines The old lead and copper mines of the Penrhyn Du headland near Abersoch, worked from the 17th century to 1892, with a Boulton and Watt engine of 1779 and a Cornish engine house that still stands.	Gwynedd	By 1662–1892	Lead, Copper, Zinc
Gadair Wyllt Slate Quarry A small Rhyd Ddu slate quarry above Llyn y Gader, stopped and restarted through the First World War, whose waste was tipped into the lake.	Gwynedd	c. 1885–c. 1920	Slate
Hafod-y-Wern Slate Quarry A Gwyrfai valley slate quarry that grew with the North Wales Narrow Gauge Railway and closed in the mid-1920s.	Gwynedd	By 1878–mid-1920s	Slate
Cyffty Mine A Gwydir Forest lead and zinc mine on the Principal Lode shared with Parc and Llanrwst, its wheel pits and machine houses now consolidated.	Conwy	By 1878–after 1918	Lead, Zinc
Ystrad Iron Mine The lower of the two Betws Garmon iron mines, developed from 1909 by the Bettws Garmon Iron Ore and Smelting Company and its successors.	Gwynedd	1909 (small opencasts before 1900)–1919	Iron
Kelton Fell Mine Baird's haematite mine on Kelton Fell, Knockmurton's partner and the terminus of the Rowrah and Kelton Fell Railway.	Cumbria	1869–June 1914	Iron
Moel Hebog Mine A high, weather-bound copper mine on Moel Hebog that could only be worked eight months a year.	Gwynedd	1837–1889	Copper
Garreg Fawr Iron Mine A Moel Eilio ironstone mine that sent its ore over the mountain to Llanberis by a 4.7 km aerial ropeway.	Gwynedd	1840s–1920	Iron, Copper
Garreg Fawr Slate Quarry A tiny Gwyrfai slate quarry remembered for its toy-castle tower above the Welsh Highland Railway.	Gwynedd	c. 1802–1930s	Slate
Glanrafon Quarry The Cwm Gwyrfai slate quarry that brought the North Wales Narrow Gauge Railway to Rhyd Ddu, its flooded pit now beside the Welsh Highland line.	Gwynedd	By 1875–c. 1916	Slate
Braich yr Oen Mine A Cwm Llan copper mine high above the Watkin Path, worked in tandem with Hafod y Llan for sixty years.	Gwynedd	c. 1825–1880s	Copper
Catherine and Jane Consols A Merioneth lead mine named after the two sisters who leased it, with the shell of its Cornish engine house above the Ffestiniog Railway.	Gwynedd	1825–1877	Lead, Copper, Iron
Aberglaslyn Copper Mine A copper mine in the Aberglaslyn gorge that shipped its ore by boat from the bridge before the Cob closed the estuary.	Gwynedd	c. 1769–c. 1850	Copper
Bryn y Felin Copper Mine An eighteenth-century Glaslyn copper mine whose riverside stamps mill was once offered as a woollen mill.	Gwynedd	Before 1760–1875	Copper
Clogwyn Coch Copper Mine A summer-only copper mine high on Snowdon whose miners moved down to the Llanberis mine for the winter.	Gwynedd	Late 18th century–1867	Copper
Llanberis Copper Mine The old copper mine of Llyn Peris, worked for a century before the slate quarries took over the valley.	Gwynedd	Mid-18th century–1873	Copper
Llwyndu Copper Mine A copper mine worked for barely nine years whose dressing floor, flue and whim circle survive almost as an 1842 drawing shows them.	Gwynedd	By 1840–1844	Copper
Hafod y Llan Slate Quarry Snowdon's own slate quarry, whose 'heroic' incline and tramway still dominate Cwm Llan beside the Watkin Path.	Gwynedd	1840s–1889	Slate
Hafod y Llan Copper Mine One of the Cwm Llan copper mines on Snowdon's south side, worked alongside Braich yr Oen and the Hafod y Llan slate quarry.	Gwynedd	By 1825–1880s	Copper, Lead
Lliwedd Mine A high, remote copper mine on Y Lliwedd whose machinery was too hard to carry away and still lies among the mill ruins.	Gwynedd	By 1806–1865	Copper
Hafod y Porth Copper Mine A small Snowdonia copper mine whose buildings survive almost complete, sold to investors under four names in its last thirty years.	Gwynedd	By 1755–1890	Copper, Lead
Cwm Bychan Copper Mine A rare 1920s aerial ropeway in Snowdonia, its pylons still standing in the cwm above Nantmor.	Gwynedd	from 1720	Copper
Cwm Ciprwth Mine A rare surviving Truro-made waterwheel and flat-rod pump at a mine that raised only 65 tonnes of ore in its lifetime.	Gwynedd	c. 1800–c. 1900	Copper
East Harptree Lead Works The last of the Mendip lead-smelting chimneys, left by an eight-year Cornish attempt to wring lead from old slag.	Somerset	1867–1875	Lead
Whitriggs Mine One of the oldest recorded Furness iron mines, mapped in 1725 and the first Furness venture of Henry Schneider.	Cumbria	by 1725	Iron
Knockmurton Mine Baird's haematite mine in the Skiddaw Slate, worked for sixty years and given its own mineral railway from Rowrah.	Cumbria	c. 1853–June 1914	Iron
Mixon Mine Ecton's smaller neighbour, whose copper shared the Duke of Devonshire's pack-horse road to the Whiston smelter.	Staffordshire	1600s–c. 1820	Copper, Lead
Riber Mine A 1950s South African-backed lead venture that drove under Riber Castle and found a medieval wooden pump below the Derwent.	Derbyshire	1950–1959	Lead, Zinc
Yatestoop Mine An eighteenth-century lead mine that moved its steam engine 200 yards underground in 1782 to save on pump rods.	Derbyshire	—	Lead
Gregory Mine Ashover's great lead mine, which paid £100,000 in fifty years and left the orefield's chief mining monument.	Derbyshire	Early 1700s–1806	Lead
Stray Park Mine The Camborne mine where Richard Trevithick started work at nineteen and later ran his high-pressure whim engine.	Cornwall	Late 1700s–1870	Copper, Tin
Wheal Seton A Camborne copper mine that raised 113,000 tons of ore beside its better-documented neighbour West Wheal Seton.	Cornwall	—	Copper, Tin
North Roskear Mine A 140-share Camborne copper mine that had paid its adventurers £105,000 by 1856.	Cornwall	—	Copper, Tin
South Tamar Consols A rich silver-lead mine that the River Tamar drowned in five minutes in 1856, emptying Bere Alston of its miners.	Devon	1820–1856	Lead, Silver
East Wheal Russell A Bedford-estate copper mine above Morwellham whose old levels were later reworked for tin as part of Russell United.	Devon	1850–1869	Copper, Tin
West Sharp Tor Mine A Duchy copper mine in the granite under Sharp Tor that turned up in E. V. Thompson's Retallick novels.	Cornwall	from 1850	Copper
Teasses Colliery Its 1842 evidence pictures boys harnessed by strap and chain to coal carts in an unrailed Fife pit.	Fife	Early 1800s–1860s	Coal
Dysart Colliery Six centuries of coal on one fire-prone seam, from an Earl of Orkney's coal-works in 1407 to the Frances pit's closure in 1988.	Fife	c. 1407–1988 (as Frances Colliery)	Coal, Ironstone
Drumcarrow Colliery A Fife pit whose coal kept catching fire, so that in 1842 the smoke from a burning coal wall could stop all work.	Fife	Mid-1700s–c. 1850	Coal
Crossgates Colliery A Fife village coal-work with colliers on the parish register in 1640 and children working its pumps in 1842.	Fife	by 1640	Coal
Cluny Colliery The Rothes colliery where miners mutinied in 1752, and whose splint coal Middelburg preferred to any other in Scotland.	Fife	1650s–early 1880s	Coal
Balbirnie Colliery An eighteenth-century laird-geologist's drainage level that sold half a million tons of Fife coal in fifty years.	Fife	from 1600s	Coal
Knightswood Colliery Its 1842 evidence explains how a colliers' combination capped every man's output, and how boys counted as a quarter or half a man.	Glasgow	c. 1839–by 1896	Coal, Ironstone
Edgehead Colliery Its 1842 evidence records a twelve-year-old who had worked five years lying on his side in a two-foot seam.	Midlothian	By 1842–1959	Coal
Fairlie Colliery An 1842 missionary's portrait of a colliery village hired by the fortnight, emptied and refilled twice in five years.	East Ayrshire	by 1834	Coal
Boiling Well Mine A Hayle towans mine that changed its name four times and gave Cornwall the saying 'on Boiling mine payday' for never.	Cornwall	By 1815–1862	Copper, Lead, Silver, Zinc
Clackmannan Colliery Its 1842 evidence to the Children's Employment Commission records girls and ten-year-olds wheeling coal and ironstone underground.	Clackmannanshire	by 1832	Coal, Ironstone
South Cambria Colliery A wet little drift mine that went through five owners in twenty years and still shows its stone portals in the Pentyrch woods.	Cardiff	1894–August 1914	Coal
East Layton Copper Mine A Yorkshire copper venture that bought a Boulton & Watt engine, ran it for a year and closed without, it seems, selling any ore.	North Yorkshire	1754 (old workings)–December 1812	Copper
Silver Valley Mine A silver-and-tin trial beside the Hurlers that wartime Canadian engineers spent £25,000 on without raising an ounce.	Cornwall	1815–1942 (last attempt)	Silver, Tin
Wheal Emily A three-year copper venture in the Gwithian cliffs that ended owing nearly eight times what it made in its last months.	Cornwall	1857 (reopened)–April 1860	Copper, Lead, Zinc
Carnyorth Mine A dividend-paying St Just tin mine later folded into Botallack, where Botallack's first steam engine is said to have worked.	Cornwall	from 1795 or c. 1810 (first steam engine)	Tin
Prideaux Wood Mine A steam-engine mine in the Luxulyan Valley that Joseph Treffry, master of the valley's canal and tramways, declined to keep funding.	Cornwall	to 1850s	—
Kelly Bray Mine A copper mine under the flank of Kit Hill that reached 130 fathoms within a few years, one of the Callington group with Holmbush and Redmoor.	Cornwall	by 1843	Copper
Great Hewas Mine The mine Sticker village grew up around, with a Boulton & Watt engine in the 1790s and £7,000 of new steam engines in 1853.	Cornwall	from 1700s	Tin, Copper, Lead
Great Sheba Consols A Duchy of Cornwall copper sett near Kit Hill worked under at least five names in thirty years, of which a lone listed chimney remains.	Cornwall	1838–1867	Copper
Swanpool Mine A Falmouth silver-lead mine that ran beneath a coastal lagoon and was revived by a former New Zealand premier.	Cornwall	Early 1700s–1865	Lead, Silver
Wheal Wrey A Tiddy valley silver-lead mine that yielded over 100,000 ounces of silver in about twenty years.	Cornwall	By 1855–1866	Lead, Silver
Wheal Trelawny A Menheniot lead-boom mine that paid £9,880 in three years, marked today by a listed stack.	Cornwall	1840 or 1845–1902	Lead, Arsenic, Silver
Molland Mine An Exmoor-edge copper mine that turned to iron ore, still raising it into the 1890s.	Devon	1600s–1894	Copper, Iron
West Wheal Seton A copper mine whose 1870s accounts show who owned and supplied a working Cornish mine through the slump.	Cornwall	1844–1891	Copper, Tin
Yeoland Consols A Meavy valley tin mine on ground whose Elizabethan stamping mills Sir Walter Raleigh defended in 1600.	Devon	1852 (as Yeoland Consols)–1857	Tin
Polgooth Mine Once called the greatest tin mine in the world, with Watt, Boulton and the Wedgwoods among its adventurers.	Cornwall	By 1593–1894	Tin
Wheal Margaret A small Lelant tin mine that paid £17 a share in 1855 and went down 200 fathoms through granite.	Cornwall	1790–1877	Tin
Wheal Treasury The mine where Richard Trevithick began work alongside his father, served by a James Watt engine in the 1790s.	Cornwall	By 1793–1870	Copper, Tin
Wheal Henry A poor Gwennap-edge mine whose small killas engine house may be among the oldest still standing in Cornwall.	Cornwall	1734 (first record)–1860s (probably)	Copper, Tin