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Mine	Region	Worked	Commodities
Philpstoun No. 7 Mine A shale mine reached by a long drive through barren ground, which took up the shale of a failed neighbouring company.	West Lothian	After 1896–1931	Oil Shale
Deans No. 5 Mine A mine driven through barren rock to reach shale lying beneath what became the new town of Livingston.	West Lothian	c. 1908–1931	Oil Shale
Roman Camp No. 5 Mine A late shale mine whose dook followed the seam down into a trough so deep that the shale stood on end.	West Lothian	1917–1934	Oil Shale
Pumpherston No. 1 Mine The Pumpherston Oil Company's first mine, driven right beside the retorts so its shale went straight into them.	West Lothian	c. 1884–1901	Oil Shale
Cobbinshaw No. 5 Mine A moorland shale mine tied to its oil works by a dead-straight narrow-gauge railway, abandoned and then revived with electric haulage.	West Lothian	1890–1926	Oil Shale
Cobbinshaw No. 1 and 2 Pits The moorland shale pit where Scotland's first electric winding engine was installed.	West Lothian	1906–1926	Oil Shale
Gavieside No. 40 Mine A West Calder shale mine on a seam up to sixteen feet thick, near the Five Sisters bings.	West Lothian	About 1902–1927	Oil Shale
Philpstoun No. 6 (Whitequarries) Mine A showcase shale mine with elegant offices, closed in 1932 and revived to work until the industry's end in 1962.	West Lothian	1909–1962	Oil Shale
Philpstoun No. 1 Mine The shale mine that fed Philpstoun's retorts for the works' whole working life.	West Lothian	1885–1931	Oil Shale
Pumpherston No. 5 Mine A steep Pumpherston shale mine whose site now lies partly under a golf course.	West Lothian	1899–1925	Oil Shale
Pumpherston No. 4 Mine A shale mine whose workings spread beneath what is now eastern Livingston.	West Lothian	After 1907–1927	Oil Shale
Ingliston No. 36 and 37 Pits Shale pits whose workings now lie beneath Edinburgh Airport.	West Lothian	1897–1926	Oil Shale
Roman Camp No. 7 Mine A wartime shale mine that fed its output by tramway into its neighbour, Roman Camp No. 6.	West Lothian	1937–1951	Oil Shale
Roman Camp No. 3 Mine A shale mine driven through a hundred feet of volcanic rock to reach the shale beyond.	West Lothian	By 1906–1938	Oil Shale
Hopetoun No. 6 (Glendevon) Mines The largest of Young's Hopetoun shale mines, three adits fanning out under the fields west of Winchburgh.	West Lothian	By 1896–1957	Oil Shale
Holmes Mine A shale mine whose chairman promised twenty years' work in 1885; it lasted about fifteen.	West Lothian	About 1884–1900	Oil Shale
Deans No. 7 Mine A Livingston shale mine that fought thin seams, faults and water through the 1920s.	West Lothian	By 1915–1931	Oil Shale
Ingliston No. 33 Pit A Victorian shale pit that lasted barely two years, on ground now inside Edinburgh Airport.	West Lothian	1892–1894	Oil Shale
Limefield No. 32 Mine A West Calder shale mine worked twice, once from the 1880s and again from 1900 until it ran out in 1923.	West Lothian	About 1880–1923	Oil Shale
Alderstone No. 43 Mine The last shale mine Young's sank around West Calder, whose railway viaduct outlasts the mine.	West Lothian	About 1908–1921	Oil Shale
Roman Camp No. 6 Mine A shale mine sunk in the 1930s not to create jobs but to save them, as older mines ran out.	West Lothian	1936–1956	Oil Shale
Hopetoun No. 41 Mine A shallow shale mine dug on both sides of the Union Canal, whose subsidence still shows in the fields.	West Lothian	About 1906–1927	Oil Shale
Hopetoun No. 35 Pit A Winchburgh shale pit that worked for over sixty years and outlasted most of its neighbours.	West Lothian	About 1896–1958	Oil Shale
Pentland No. 1 and 2 Mines A steep, fiery shale mine south of Edinburgh closed not by exhaustion but by a lawsuit over the city's water.	Midlothian	About 1882–1897	Oil Shale
Westwood No. 1 and 2 Pits The last Scottish oil-shale pit to close, and the industry's showcase between the wars.	West Lothian	1915–1962	Oil Shale
Old Boston Colliery A Haydock pit closed by a shaft fire in 1952 that then spent 37 years training miners.	Merseyside	1868–1952	Coal
Cannock Wood Colliery A Cannock Chase pit that raised some fifty million tonnes of coal in 109 years.	Staffordshire	1864–1973	Coal, Ironstone
Brown Lees Colliery A Biddulph pit that ended its life as the pumping shafts for its larger neighbour, Victoria.	Staffordshire	By 1887–1982	Coal
Hindley Hall Colliery A Wigan colliery whose two pits carried the names Edith and Mabel.	Lancashire	1859–1914	Coal, Fireclay
Welch Whittle Colliery A Lancashire pit whose shafts were sunk through 110 feet of quicksand to reach the Arley mine.	Lancashire	About 1855–December 1959	Coal
Farrington Colliery A Somerset pit that worked for nearly two centuries, from the 1730s to 1923.	Somerset	About 1738–1923	Coal
New Hucknall Colliery The pit that turned Huthwaite from a village of 500 into a mining town of thousands.	Nottinghamshire	1876–February 1982	Coal
Adderley Green Colliery A Longton pit where a single rail fallen down the shaft cost five lives in 1860.	Staffordshire	by 1860	Coal
Hanley Deep Pit North Staffordshire's deepest pit, whose spoil heaps became Central Forest Park.	Staffordshire	1854–1962	Coal
Crump Meadow Colliery A Forest of Dean pit that took ten years to reach coal and ninety years to work it out.	Gloucestershire	1829–July 1929	Coal
Victoria Colliery, Rainford A Rainford pit whose site became an engineering works and then an oil works that kept its railway siding until 1961.	Merseyside	By 1855–after 1905	Coal
Halsnead Colliery A Whiston colliery on a country estate, where an underground fire in 1880 defied every attempt to put it out.	Merseyside	1802–1895	Coal
Peasley Cross Colliery A St Helens colliery where in 1871 a collier and his father died of gas thought to have come from the town's sewers.	Merseyside	By 1855–1903 or 1906	Coal
Phoenix Colliery A St Helens pit that raised 300 tons a day from a coal seam only two feet thick.	Merseyside	1873–1895	Coal
Sutton Heath Colliery A St Helens pit where 1,500 strikers planned to march in 1881 and a crowd of 500 stoned eighty police in 1893.	Merseyside	By 1858–1932	Coal
Portland Collieries, Kirkby The Butterley Company's seven-shaft complex of 1818, the forerunner of Nottinghamshire's deep mines, whose pits were nicknamed after their managers.	Nottinghamshire	About 1818–1921	Coal
Great Weeke Mine A Chagford tin mine that three companies tried to revive in sixteen years, returning only 56 tons of tin.	Devon	1887–1903	Tin
Owlacombe Beams A medieval tinners' gorge 1,200 feet long, recorded in 1492, with a Victorian mine sunk on the same lode beside it.	Devon	By 1492–1866	Tin, Copper
Wheal Polmear A St Austell copper mine its own miners called 'bunchy', whose rich finds never lasted, yet which sold ore for nearly a century.	Cornwall	1814–1908	Copper, Arsenic, Lead, Silver, Zinc, Pyrite
Wheal Unity, Gwennap A Gwennap copper mine that cleared over £100,000 in six years once the Great County Adit reached it.	Cornwall	By 1792–1866	Copper
Wheal Surprise A Whitchurch Down copper mine prompted by a copper-stained gatepost, sold for £50 after the bailiffs came and refloated under a new name.	Devon	About 1810–1856	Copper
Walkham United A Walkham valley mine company that promised tin, copper and lead lodes and returned barely a ton of tin in its best two years.	Devon	1860–4 August 1882	Tin, Copper, Lead
Field Lane Colliery, Gawthorpe A Gawthorpe pit where an inquest found that the rope lowering the engine man down the shaft had been cut on purpose.	West Yorkshire	By 1849–About 1877	Coal
Hazlehead Colliery A moorland pit beside the Hepworth Iron Company's works at Crow Edge that lasted barely a year into nationalisation.	South Yorkshire	1884–February 1948	Coal
Norley Colliery A Pemberton pit where open lamps and firedamp killed boys of eleven to fifteen in 1852, and a fireman's unchecked shot killed eight in 1868.	Greater Manchester	By 1852–1913	Coal
Lanchester Colliery A Lanchester pit that maps showed disused by the 1890s but which came back to work drift after drift until 1950.	County Durham	By 1838–1950	Coal
Glyncymmer Colliery An Afan valley level the village called 'Goodie', run for twenty years by one manager and worked until nationalisation.	Neath Port Talbot	By 1896–January 1947	Coal
Healey Lane Colliery An Ossett pit whose founding partner was, twelve years on, working as a colliery weighman after his bankruptcy.	West Yorkshire	1876–1899	Coal
Park Lane Colliery, Ossett A Flushdyke pit of two shafts that passed from Cliffe and Company to the Haighs of Gawthorpe.	West Yorkshire	1862–1885	Coal
New Lodge Colliery, Gawthorpe A Gawthorpe pit whose managers were taken to court in 1874 for an explosion the inspector said could have been avoided.	West Yorkshire	1855–1889	Coal
Northfield Colliery, Ossett A small Ossett pit of the Northfield Colliery Company, which also worked Longlands and Greatfield.	West Yorkshire	1896–1917	Coal
Ox Close Colliery An Ossett colliery that took five years to sink and lasted three more, passing through three owners on the way.	West Yorkshire	1873–1881	Coal
Dewsbury Lane Colliery A small Ossett pit whose colliers paid for their own sick and accident club, and in 1871 had no accidents to pay for.	West Yorkshire	By 1856–1877	Coal
Old Roundwood Colliery Ossett's largest pit, a Victorian sinking that sent its Silkstone Best out by its own railway until 1966.	West Yorkshire	1853–April 1966	Coal
Whinny Moor Colliery A small Naylor pit on the edge of Wakefield, run in the 1890s by the same manager as their larger Pildacre Colliery.	West Yorkshire	1869–June 1913	Coal
Glenhafod Colliery A Port Talbot drift colliery of the 1920s that worked out its seams under the National Coal Board in 1958.	Neath Port Talbot	1920s–28 November 1958	Coal
Greatfield Colliery Westwood's Pit, a small Ossett colliery that worked on under the National Coal Board until 1954.	West Yorkshire	1913–September 1954	Coal
Wrenthorpe Colliery A Wakefield pit that closed with its owner's death and came back under the Low Laithes company over ten times its old size.	West Yorkshire	1838–1927	Coal
Westfield Colliery A small Ossett pit whose working through the 1893 strike set off the Chidswell riot.	West Yorkshire	1863–1908	Coal
Pildacre Colliery An Ossett pit whose chairman told shareholders in 1893 that a man's life mattered more than a dividend, and which was drowned out in 1910.	West Yorkshire	1872–November 1910	Coal
Lepton Edge Colliery A Kirklees pit known for raising more water than coal, whose shaft went on pumping for a quarter of a century after it closed.	West Yorkshire	By 1894–August 1964	Coal
Thorny Bank Colliery A post-war National Coal Board drift that broke output records but lasted only sixteen of its expected thirty years.	Lancashire	1950 (production August 1952)–12 July 1968	Coal
Pilsley Colliery The pit Pilsley grew up on, remembered by two pit wheels and a plaque thanking its miners 'for the warmth and the light'.	Derbyshire	1866 or 1867–April 1957	Coal
Dearne Valley Colliery A drift mine that outlasted most of the Dearne Valley's deep pits, working until 1991.	South Yorkshire	1900 or 1903–March 1991	Coal
Dyneley Colliery A Cliviger drift worked for the Towneley and Deerplay companies and reopened by a private venture in the 1980s, only to be found worked out.	Lancashire	Late 1800s–1987	Coal
Lochlea Colliery One of the collieries the National Coal Board sank itself, worked for a quarter of a century near Mauchline.	South Ayrshire	1949–November 1973	Coal
Roger Mine The last deep mine of the Kirkconnel coalfield, a post-war National Coal Board drift that worked until 1980.	Dumfries and Galloway	1952–September 1980	Coal
Cwm Glo Colliery A 1990s private drift on Varteg Hill whose corrugated adit shed and loading gear still stand.	Torfaen	1992–1997	Coal
Glencairn Colliery A small 1930s drift colliery near Longniddry that kept working for the National Coal Board until 1962.	East Lothian	1936–January 1962	Coal
Fortacres Colliery A privately sunk Ayrshire pit that passed to the National Coal Board two years after nationalisation.	South Ayrshire	1924–January 1957	Coal
Oakfield Colliery One of the Fife Coal Company's short-term wartime drift mines, open for only five years.	Fife	1944–1949	Coal
New Carterthorne Colliery A short-lived drift beside the older Carterthorne Colliery, whose workforce grew more than fourfold between 1896 and 1900.	County Durham	By 1896–April 1927	Coal
Brusselton Tower Drift A private drift that stayed in private hands under nationalisation, leased out by the National Coal Board until 1968.	County Durham	1925–1968	Coal
Ramshawfield Drift A small private drift in the South Tyne valley that kept working the Little Limestone coal until 1982.	Northumberland	By 1937–October 1982	Coal
Bayldon Colliery One of three small Melkridge Coal Company workings in the South Tyne valley, open only for a few years in the 1930s.	Northumberland	By 1935–by 1938	Coal
Chickenley Heath Colliery A small Dewsbury pit where electricity was killing men underground by 1901.	West Yorkshire	1855–1908	Coal
Knutton Manor Colliery A Silverdale ironstone mine that worked the Black Band and Red Mine measures into the 1920s.	Staffordshire	By 1891–February 1925	Ironstone, Coal
Ladies Lane Colliery A Hindley colliery whose pits shared the Pennygate pumping pit with the Hindley Deep pits across the railway.	Greater Manchester	1859–1908 or 1910	Coal
Morton Colliery The Clay Cross Company's century-long pit at Morton, whose shafts were still being pumped 25 years after it closed.	Derbyshire	1865–1965	Coal
Harwood Colliery A short-lived post-war drift mine on a West Lothian hill, its entrances now standing among wind turbines.	West Lothian	1945 or 1946–1959	Coal
Shortheath Colliery A Willenhall pit whose 1879 explosion put its manager before a court over a blocked ventilation gap.	West Midlands	by about 1873	Coal
Mesnes Colliery A Wigan pit worked by candlelight beside old goaves, where seven died in 1873 and the jury called for locked lamps.	Greater Manchester	from before 1873 (worked for many years)	Coal
Withymoor Colliery A Black Country pit where a leaning headframe over a burning seam snapped a chain and killed eight in 1864.	West Midlands	by 1864	Coal
Old Bradley Colliery A Bilston pit where a level driven to drain flooded workings came too close beneath them in 1862.	West Midlands	by 1862	Coal
Benston Colliery The 1860 flooding that ended coal mining at Johnstone, remembered on the town's miners' cairn.	Renfrewshire	By 1857–1860	Coal
Gwane Colliery A Rowley Regis pit whose owner was told to widen its airway, did not, and lost nine men in 1857.	West Midlands	by 1857	Coal, Ironstone
Sankey Brook Colliery A St Helens pit where six fell 200 yards in 1857 down a shaft the inspector had already condemned.	Merseyside	By the 1840s–About 1876 (probably)	Coal
Townhouse Colliery A Burnley-area pit where an unlocked lamp in 1850 and an unsupervised squib in 1856 each cost several lives.	Lancashire	by 1850	Coal
Heathfield Colliery, Wolverhampton A Wolverhampton pit whose 1848 explosion, killing sixteen, ended in a manslaughter verdict against the doggy.	West Midlands	by 1848	Coal
Ravenslodge Colliery A Dewsbury pit drowned in minutes in 1892 when a flawed cast-iron tubbing segment burst in the shaft.	West Yorkshire	by 1892	Coal
Hall End Colliery, West Bromwich A West Bromwich pit whose 1884 fire at naked candles fed calls to make safety lamps compulsory in gassy seams.	West Midlands	by 1884	Coal
Titford Long Meadow Colliery An Oldbury pit where five men died in 1874 from breathing superheated air, with no burn on any of them.	West Midlands	—	Coal
Westburn Colliery A Cambuslang pit where pumping out a flood released the gas that killed a roadsman in 1903.	South Lanarkshire	By 1886–February 1905	Coal, Fireclay
Caroline Wheal Prosper A Buckfastleigh tin mine on which over £8,000 was spent, with 'remarkable recklessness', for one sample of tin.	Devon	1854–1857	Tin
Conistone Moor Mines A two-mile belt of Wharfedale lead veins pocked with shafts from the 1700s to the failed company ventures of the 1860s.	North Yorkshire	18th century–1872	Lead