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Mine	Region	Worked	Commodities
Eagle Crag Mine Nine levels up a crag face, ore thrown down chutes and carried out by pony, cart and boat, and a lost vein of silver the valley still calls Watson's Loss.	Cumbria	By 1784–1876	Lead, Zinc
Eaglebrook Mine Renamed and promoted around 1850 as 'the Welsh Potosi' to inflate its share price -- a contemporary letter-writer's furious rebuttal, dismissing its ore heap as barely three wheelbarrow-loads, survives almost verbatim.	Ceredigion	Before 1708–1874	Lead, Copper
Eaglesbush Colliery No artificial ventilation but a furnace at the surface, naked lights allowed, and each man responsible for his own lamp — twenty of thirty died in 1848.	Neath Port Talbot	by 1802	Coal
Earlseat Colliery Five Fife mines driven radially from one loading point, closed by water that ate the pumps.	Fife	May 1903–September 1927 (closure)	Coal
Earnock Colliery Reported as the first colliery in Scotland lit by electricity, in August 1881.	South Lanarkshire	By 1881–1936	Coal
Earsdon Colliery The Duke and Duchess pits of the 1820s gave rise to the hamlet of Shiney Row; Church Pit's pithead baths of 1926 still stand.	Tyne and Wear	1823–22 June 1934	Coal
Easdale Slate Quarries A thriving island slate industry ended almost overnight when a storm flooded the quarries below sea level in 1881	Argyll and Bute	1745–1911	Slate
Easington Colliery Easington's closure in 1993 brought deep mining in County Durham to an end after centuries — but the pit's defining moment had come forty years earlier, in the 1951 explosion still commemorated by 83 memorial trees, one for each life lost.	County Durham	1899 (sinking)–1993	Coal
East Ardsley Colliery Three separate pits in the official returns for twenty years, one colliery afterwards, and a plaque on a grass verge for all of it.	West Yorkshire	1872 or 1876 (sources differ)–1966 or January 1968 (sources differ)	Coal, Ironstone
East Benhar Colliery Closed in 1957 not by exhaustion but by arithmetic and a safety report: output per man-shift had halved since nationalisation, and the union's own officer wrote that going further would endanger lives.	West Lothian	c. 1938–September 1957	Coal
East Birch Tor Mine A Dartmoor tin mine pumped by a waterwheel three-quarters of a mile from its shaft through iron flat-rods.	Devon	By 1836 (revival)–1867	Tin
East Blaina Red Ash Colliery Grew from 70 to 350 men within three years in the early 1930s, working the Brithdir seam for house coal.	Blaenau Gwent	1925–before 1947 (Nationalisation)	Coal
East Boscaswell Mine Its two surviving beam engine houses -- a whim engine house and a pump engine house -- gained UNESCO World Heritage status in 2006 as part of the Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape.	Cornwall	from 1859	Tin
East Cannock Colliery The compensation paid out after the 1877 disaster says a great deal about the era: ten guineas for an injured miner, but fifteen for the horse he worked alongside.	Staffordshire	1876–1957	Coal
East Caradon Mine A Caradon copper mine that lived off its neighbour's lodes and drowned when its neighbour switched off the pumps.	Cornwall	1840 (trial)–1885	Copper
East Castle Colliery A coking colliery near Annfield Plain with 74 ovens and its own chapel village, all cleared away after 1917.	County Durham	1860s–1917	Coal
East Coanwood Colliery Coanwood's eastern twin, opened in 1865 and joined to it by a tramway, whose remains still survive.	Northumberland	from 1865	Coal
East Cramlington Colliery A Cramlington pit of the 1840s whose great waste heap, kept growing for twenty years after closure, became a nature reserve.	Northumberland	By 1848–c. 1939	Coal
East Gawber Colliery A demolished Barnsley pit whose Guibal fanhouse evasee still stands ten metres high.	South Yorkshire	1856–1921	Coal
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
East Hedley Hope Colliery A coking colliery of 1836 in the Deerness valley that stood almost idle from 1902 until the 1930s, then worked on until 1959.	County Durham	1836–31 January 1959	Coal
East Hetton Colliery To stop the 1897 flood the owners blew up an engine house and tipped it down the old Cassop shaft.	County Durham	1836–June 1983	Coal
East Holmbush Mine A small Duchy mine near Kit Hill that began life as Wheal Tom and was swept into the Callington United group.	Cornwall	from 1850	Copper, Tin, Lead
East Holywell Colliery An Earsdon-parish colliery whose Fenwick Pit ran from 1874 to 1973, with a pit village of four terraces and a spoil heap reclaimed in 2013.	Tyne and Wear	1828 or 1872–1973	Coal
East Howle Colliery A colliery lit, signalled and pumped by electricity in 1894 that worked out its coal within thirty-three years.	County Durham	1872–1905	Coal
East Law Colliery A Carluke colliery returned in the official 1880 list of collieries at work under Loundon and Miller.	South Lanarkshire	1875–1881	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
East Pontop Colliery A north-west Durham coking pit that worked a Hutton seam seven and a half feet thick.	County Durham	1868 (reopened)–28 June 1930	Coal
East Pool Mine National Trust site with preserved beam engines	Cornwall	1698–1945	Tin, Copper, Arsenic, Tungsten, Uranium
East Roman Gravels Mine A visitor in 1825 described its horizontal steam engine -- a 24-inch cylinder, 4-foot stroke rotary engine -- as 'one of the most perfect little rotary engines'; its later engine house survived only by being converted into a private dwelling in 1985.	Shropshire	From 1770s–1883 (final operator liquidated)	Lead
East Roughrigg Colliery A Forrester family colliery whose coal went to bunker steamers from the Forth and Clyde ports.	Falkirk	By 1887–c. 1933	Coal, Ironstone
East Tanfield Colliery The last colliery on the Tanfield waggonway, whose closure ended the line's working life.	County Durham	1844–9 January 1965	Coal
East Walbottle Colliery A small Edwardian pit that lasted into the 1960s and kept its pithead baths.	Tyne and Wear	1908–1966	Coal
East Wheal Lovell Wendron's richest tin mine of the 1860s and 1870s, whose rich pipe of ore bred a crop of imitation mines.	Cornwall	1790s–1891 (1881 by one account)	Tin
East Wheal Rose The 9 July 1846 flood at East Wheal Rose remains the deadliest single mining disaster in Cornwall's history — a distinction the mine holds despite having recovered to work for another forty years afterward.	Cornwall	1812 (discovery)–1886	Lead, Silver, Zinc
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
Easterhill Colliery An east-end Glasgow pit worked from the 1860s into the age of electric coal-cutters.	Glasgow	by 1867	Coal
Eastern Colliery D. Davies & Co.'s Pentre colliery of 1877, whose men with Maindy's paid for the Ton Pentre workmen's institute.	Rhondda Cynon Taf	1877–1939	Coal
Eastern Quarry A quarter-mile square in 1940 and five times that by the mid-1950s, dug by steam navvies — and now the largest single building site of a garden city.	Kent	By 1940–1990	Chalk
Eastern United Colliery Forty-one million tons and a hoped-for two hundred years of working — undone by a fold in the strata that lost the seams almost as soon as they were opened.	Forest of Dean	1910–30 January 1959	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
Easthouses Pit A Lothian Coal Company pit whose village was built for it in the 1920s and outlived it	Midlothian	1909–1980s	Coal
Eastlays Quarry Bath stone that went to Cape Town, then wartime ammunition, and now around 800,000 cases of wine ninety feet down.	Wiltshire	1887–1934	Freestone, Limestone
Easton Colliery A colliery in the middle of Bristol, closed by its owners in 1911 at the end of a three-month strike and never worked again.	Bristol	c. 1830–1911	Coal
Eatock Colliery A Westhoughton pit eight years in the sinking before it raised its first coal.	Greater Manchester	1882 (sinking)–1934	Coal
Eccleston Hall Colliery A colliery reopened by winding the water out of its predecessors' shafts in 600-gallon barrels, a barrel a minute for two months.	Merseyside	1885–1910	Coal
Eccleston Quarry Stone for Blackpool Promenade, then a flooded pit where divers found the body that broke the Mr Asia gang.	Lancashire	to after 1945	Sandstone
Eckington Mine A modern drift mine that was the last colliery in production in north-east Derbyshire, and was sealed with a thousand tonnes of foamed concrete.	Derbyshire	1993–January 2019	Coal
Ecton Copper Mines Deep and ancient workings in the Manifold Valley	Staffordshire	Bronze Age–1891	Copper, Lead, Zinc
Eddlewood Colliery A Hamilton pit where a hundred striking families faced eviction in 1897, and whose filled shaft killed five men at the next colliery in 1916.	South Lanarkshire	By 1882–c. 1910	Coal
Eden Colliery Consett Iron's Leadgate pit, sunk 1844 and closed 1980, whose 1927 Towneley drift explosion killed a father, his son and a 74-year-old overman.	County Durham	1844–18 July 1980	Coal, Fireclay
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
Edgewell Colliery A Prudhoe brickworks pit whose 1889 advert wanted a hewer who was 'preferably single'.	Northumberland	Before 1850–November 1904	Coal, Fireclay
Edmondsley Colliery The pit that made the village: Edmondsley barely existed before the colliery opened, and its owners built the school that outlasted the workings.	County Durham	1850s–30 November 1920	Coal
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
Edmunds Main Colliery Mitchell & Co.'s colliery in Worsbrough Dale, Barnsley, flooded after the 1862 explosion.	South Yorkshire	1853–1889	Coal
Egton Quarry Two men working a wall of Mull basalt that stands over the Esk, five days' flow from a volcano 58 million years ago.	North Yorkshire	from Working by 1914	Whinstone
Elba Colliery A drift mine that existed to feed its own steelworks, abandoned after an explosion killed eleven.	Swansea	1881–1905	Coal
Eldin Colliery A small Bonnyrigg coal and fireclay pit remembered chiefly through two of its bricks, both found by collectors in St Petersburg.	Midlothian	by 1874	Coal, Fireclay
Eldon Colliery A Pease colliery of 1829 that employed nearly 2,000 at its 1921 peak and was pulled down within two years of closing.	County Durham	1829–1932	Coal
Eldon Hill Crushing Circle Threatened by an expanding quarry in 1989, the entire crushing circle was lifted onto a lorry, moved to safety at Dirtlow Rake and rebuilt there by volunteers from the Peak District Mines Historical Society.	Derbyshire	from Probably the 18th century	Lead
Elemore Colliery Nearly 150 years of working began with miners living in sod-built houses, and its 1826 winding engine survived in place until 1981.	County Durham	1825 (sinking)–February 1974	Coal
Elerslie Mine The westernmost working in the Foxdale Mines' mineralised zone, near Crosby.	Isle of Man	—	Lead
Elgin and Wellwood Colliery Wellwood, begun in 1827 by a Dunfermline coalmaster advertising its hard splint coal for steam vessels, which joined the Elgin pits and lost men to fires in 1859 and 1884.	Fife	1827–1950	Coal
Elled Colliery A Pontnewynydd level named for the Elled seam, later the return airway of the Mynydd Maen mine.	Torfaen	1890s–1943 (production)	Coal
Ellenbank Colliery A wartime mine near Maryport that lasted only eight years, five of them under the National Coal Board.	Cumbria	1944 (development)–6 August 1952	Coal
Ellerbeck Colliery Closed once, reopened, nationalised, modernised, and hit its best-ever year in 1958 — only to close for good seven years later as demand for coal fell away nationally.	Lancashire	1876–August 1965	Coal
Ellesmere Colliery Stopped raising coal in 1921 but kept its shafts working for another 47 years — purely to keep the water out of its neighbours' mines.	Greater Manchester	1865–1921	Coal
Ellington Colliery The last deep coal mine of the Great North Coalfield, closed abruptly in 2005 after a catastrophic flood burst through a new coal face and left £8 million of equipment entombed underground.	Northumberland	1909 (sinking)–26 January 2005	Coal
Elliot Colliery A Rhymney Valley colliery whose 1891 steam winding engine unusually kept hauling coal and men right up to closure in 1967, decades after most collieries went electric.	Caerphilly	1883-85 (sinking)–1962 (closure)	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
Ellistown Colliery The largest colliery in the eastern basin of the Leicestershire field, sunk into nine feet of Lower Main coal with no faulting to speak of — and its pumping engine kept working until 1975 because it also supplied the town’s water.	Leicestershire	1874–1991	Coal, Fireclay, Ironstone
Elm Colliery Two shafts of one colliery, working different seams, whose workforces crossed over: as one fell from 482 to 152 the other rose from 104 to 364.	Flintshire	1870s–1934	Coal
Elms Colliery A small coal pit at Nailsea, Somerset, also known as Middle Engine Pit, serving the local glass-making industry.	Somerset	1829–1850s	Coal
Elphingstone Colliery Gave evidence to the 1842 Commission: a coal putter of eight, a filler of nine, six women and girls of nine workers.	East Lothian	By 1842–1920	Coal
Elsdon Colliery A shaft and drift at Elsdon opened in the 1880s, which carried on as a licensed mine after nationalisation until 1972.	Northumberland	1880s–7 August 1972	Coal
Elsecar Colliery The Fitzwilliam colliery whose 1795 Newcomen engine is the only one left anywhere in the world on the spot it was built for.	South Yorkshire	1794–1923	Coal
Elswick Colliery Coal was dug at Elswick by 1293; the colliery that grew there sank its Wortley Pit in 1805 and still raised 150,000 tons in 1940.	Tyne and Wear	Before 1828–1940s	Coal
Elterwater Quarry One Lake District slate colour — pale green, with its own distinctive markings — that comes from exactly one place.	Cumbria	From mid-19th century–Still active	Slate
Eltringham Colliery A Tyne-bank colliery and brickworks that employed over three hundred in 1902 and ended as a drift of a handful of men.	Northumberland	1850s–30 June 1951	Coal, Fireclay
Elvet Colliery A landsale pit on the southern edge of Durham city, where coal was being bored for in 1740 and the last seam was given up in 1908.	County Durham	18th century–25 January 1908	Coal
Elwyn Colliery From about 1991 physically joined underground to the neighbouring Graig y Fforest No.2 Colliery (Pinetrees), whose coal then came out through Elwyn's own drift.	Neath Port Talbot	1955–1993	Coal
Emily Colliery A Llansamlet level named after its founder's wife, ventilated by a furnace under a shallow upcast and sold off when its owner went bankrupt.	Swansea	c. 1847–c. 1895	Coal
Emley Moor Colliery An Emley pit with roots in horse-gin days that outlived the 1984-85 strike only briefly, closing in 1985.	West Yorkshire	By 1821–1985	Coal
Emlyn Colliery An anthracite drift mine at the head of the Gwendraeth Fawr, cut off from its neighbour underground by the Hendre fault.	Carmarthenshire	1882–March 1939	Anthracite
Emma Colliery A Stella Coal Company pit whose workmen built their own memorial hall in 1923; it closed in 1968 as the last Ryton-area seams ran out.	Tyne and Wear	1845 (sinking begun)–19 April 1968	Coal
Emmer Green (Hanover) Chalk Mine The miners took the flint out and sold it, and left the chalk waste piled across the galleries behind them.	Berkshire	—	Chalk, Flint
Energlyn Colliery Its manager won the Albert Medal at the Tynewydd rescue of 1877, and the replacement pit of 1905 lasted just eight years.	Caerphilly	1858–5 February 1913 (old pit abandoned 1892)	Coal
Engine Vein The deep open scar left by its own working proved so tempting to unofficial explorers that the National Trust had it capped in 1981, specifically to stop them getting in through the collapsed opencast.	Cheshire	Bronze Age–1919	Copper
Enterkine Colliery Annbank's big pit, where seven men and boys died in a firedamp explosion in 1898.	South Ayrshire	1878–November 1959 (abandoned 1960)	Coal, Fireclay
Eppleton Colliery In 1836 candles were preferred to the Davy lamp because they gave a better light; in 1951 the ignition came from a faulty control box on a coal-loading machine.	Tyne and Wear	1833–1986	Coal, Fireclay
Erglodd Mine A lead and zinc mine whose site was worked for copper in the Bronze Age and smelted lead under the protection of a Roman military fortlet, long before its recorded 18th-19th century mining history.	Ceredigion	Late 18th century–c. 1883	Lead, Zinc
Erskine Colliery Closed by the new National Coal Board in 1947 and reopened within three months as a private licensed mine.	Blaenau Gwent	1927–April 1974	Coal
Esgair Hir and Esgair Fraith Mines Known as the 'Welsh Potosi'; its 1689 legal case broke the Crown's monopoly on mining silver and gold	Powys	1691–1904	Lead, Copper
Esgair Mwyn Mine Few British lead mines can claim to have drawn in the direct personal investment of Robert Clive of India — one of the most consequential, and most controversial, figures in 18th-century British imperial history, briefly a stakeholder in a remote Cardiganshire hillside.	Ceredigion	1746–1994	Lead, Copper, Silver, Zinc
Esh Winning Colliery Its Quaker owners built a model village around it with bigger gardens than colliery housing usually had.	County Durham	1866–1968	Coal
Eshott Colliery A small Eshott colliery with steam pumping and winding engines, advertised in a printed notice as 'now working'.	Northumberland	Early 19th century–before 1890s	Coal
Eskett Pit A man who fell down the shaft in 1876 was missed only when his bait bottle was found left at the eye.	Cumbria	From 1882–1913	Iron
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
Eston Ironstone Mines Two men walking in the hills in June 1850 found the outcrop that turned Middlesbrough from a village into an iron town — and named the settlement that grew up around the workings California, after the gold rush.	North Yorkshire	From August 1850–September 1949	Iron
Etherley Dene Colliery A small Bishop Auckland drift whose valley had been worked for a century, from the 'Dabble Ducks' pit of 1856 to 1955.	County Durham	1850 (first drift)–September 1955	Coal
Etna Colliery A Gilfach Goch mine that passed through three owners in its quarter-century, ending as Glenavon Garw's Etna slant.	Rhondda Cynon Taf	1901–January 1928	Coal
Excelsior Mine For eighteen months in 1959-60, a nearly abandoned Victorian drainage tunnel on a Cornish hillside became a live testing ground for Cold War nuclear-detection science — decades after the last tin miner had given up on reaching the shaft it was originally dug to drain.	Cornwall	early 1850s–1946 (mining)	Tin, Copper, Tungsten
Exhall Colliery A pit-top fire in 1915 that killed fourteen men underground without touching the workings.	Warwickshire	By 1894–130	Coal
Eylesbarrow Mine Dartmoor's largest documented tin mine, unique on the moor for building its own smelting house to process ore brought in from other Dartmoor workings.	Devon	1814-15–1856	Tin