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Mine	Region	Worked	Commodities
Godolphin Mine A Godolphin estate mine where gunpowder blasting may first have been used in Cornwall, and where an engine house once sank down its own shaft.	Cornwall	By the 1600s–After 1861	Copper, Tin
Huntingdon Mine A tin mine that went through four names and five companies in twenty-five years, drained by waterwheels 40 feet across.	Devon	About 1839–1865	Tin
Leftlake Clay Works A clay pit whose inferior clay shared the eight-mile Redlake pipeline but was never sent down with Redlake's own.	Devon	About 1850–1933	China Clay
Upper Hartshay Colliery A Butterley Company pit employing 839 men in 1923, whose name the county record also gives to the Marehay pits beside it.	Derbyshire	By 1849–After 1940	Coal
Dayhouse Quarry A ballast quarry served by the last stub of the Wye Valley Railway, flooded into one of Britain's deepest inland dive sites.	Gloucestershire	to By 1996	Limestone
Darran Colliery, Risca A small Risca drift kept at work for the fireclay its owners' brickworks needed.	Caerphilly	c.1812–1942	Coal, Fireclay
Dukes Pit, Tredegar The pit that gave Dukestown its name, and an early example of water-balance winding.	Blaenau Gwent	from 1806	Coal
Ash Tree Pit, Tredegar A Tredegar pit remembered by the name of the dairywoman whose thatched cottage stood beside it.	Blaenau Gwent	1826–1897	Coal
Mountain Pit, Tredegar Claimed as the deepest water-balance pit in the world, lifting coal 630 feet with nothing but the weight of water.	Blaenau Gwent	1841–1896	Coal
Yard Level, Tredegar The source of the Great Exhibition's block of coal, too heavy to take to London and still lying in Bedwellty Park.	Blaenau Gwent	1802–1873	Coal
Mill Pit Colliery A pit eight years in the sinking that worked barely five more before the ground beat it.	Bridgend	1900 (sinking)–1913	Coal
Mountain Colliery, Gorseinon A Gorseinon pit whose coal could be known by its purple hue, worked for over 120 years.	Swansea	1846–1969	Coal
Saron Colliery A 1915 anthracite slant opened on the ground of a Victorian pit, so that one site carried two collieries forty years apart.	Carmarthenshire	1915–1956	Coal
Bailey Hill Colliery A short-lived Mold pit known mostly through the local paper: a tramp on its boilers, its waste in the brook and a thirteen-week strike.	Flintshire	c.1873–1893	Coal
Rhos Llantwit Colliery A pit that kept to naked lights after the inspector advised safety lamps, a year before its fireman was killed by gas.	Caerphilly	1863–1892	Coal
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