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Mine	Region	Worked	Commodities
Faggergill Mine Its closure marked the end of roughly 800 years of lead mining in Arkengarthdale following miners' strikes against strict new working hours imposed in 1870.	North Yorkshire	By 1521–1914	Lead
Fairbottom Colliery Probably the world's second-oldest surviving steam engine drained these pits, stood derelict as a local curiosity for ninety years, and was bought by Henry Ford in 1929 and shipped to Michigan.	Greater Manchester	By 1760–1834 (pumping engine)	Coal
Fairhill Colliery A Hamilton pit of nearly four hundred men that wound down to sixty-five in ten years and was abandoned in 1906.	South Lanarkshire	By 1894–1906	Coal
Fairholm Colliery A Larkhall pit that went through five owners in thirty-five years, ending under United Collieries.	South Lanarkshire	1873–1908	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
Fairy Cave Quarry A Mendip quarry that broke into some 4.5 kilometres of cave passage before planning ran out.	Somerset	1920s–1977	Limestone
Fairykirk Quarry Named from a cliff the Ordnance Survey was told was a resort of fairies, and now climbed for sport.	Fife	from Working by the mid-19th century	Whinstone
Fallahill Colliery Four pits at Fauldhouse for fifteen years, and an underground fire that killed four men in 1902.	West Lothian	1890–1905	Coal
Fallowfield Mine Went bust on lead, then made its name on the mineral it had been tipping as waste	Northumberland	From 1611–1911	Witherite, Lead, Barite
Far Green Colliery Known to its men as the Big Pit: an engineman answered a question through the engine-house window in 1859 and wound sixteen men and boys over the pulley.	Staffordshire	by 1859	Coal
Farme Colliery Three Newcomen engines still at work in 1879, one of them the only rotative Newcomen left in Europe.	South Lanarkshire	Early 1800s–17 July 1931	Coal
Farnacres Colliery A pit drowned in its first months when the shaft broke into forgotten old workings.	Tyne and Wear	from 1840	Coal, Fireclay
Farrington Colliery A Somerset pit that worked for nearly two centuries, from the 1730s to 1923.	Somerset	About 1738–1923	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
Fatfield Colliery An early Wear colliery whose 1708 explosion, blowing three people out of the shaft, was reported to the Royal Society.	Tyne and Wear	from 1700s	Coal
Faucet Rake Incorporates Oxlow Cavern, considered Britain's deepest cave when it was discovered.	Derbyshire	At least 1680–mid-19th century	Lead
Fauld Fauld went from an unremarkable Staffordshire gypsum mine to the site of Britain's largest ever explosion almost by accident of geography — chosen for its rural obscurity, the same isolation that made it a good bomb store also meant a single mistake there could do more damage than almost anywhere else in the country without immediately being noticed.	Staffordshire	From the 19th century–Still active	Gypsum
Fauldhead Colliery The largest pit of the isolated Sanquhar and Kirkconnel coalfield, whose closure in 1968 put six hundred men out of work in a valley with little else.	Dumfries and Galloway	1896–1968	Coal, Brick Clay
Fauldhouse Colliery William Dixon's cluster of numbered ironstone and coal pits around Fauldhouse, feeding the Govan ironworks until the ironstone ran out in 1891.	West Lothian	By 1855–c. 1896	Coal, Ironstone
Fawdon Colliery The colliery behind the first railway whose wagons could grip and release a moving rope.	Tyne and Wear	from 1810	Coal
Fawler Ironstone Mine One of the few Oxfordshire ironstone workings driven underground in galleries rather than simply quarried at outcrop — a pony driver's own testimony in 1886 records 'a large amount had been got' by then.	Oxfordshire	1850s–by 1884	Iron
Featherstone Main Colliery The pit that made Featherstone a mining town, closed for good in 1935 when its men struck over deductions for the dirt in their coal.	West Yorkshire	1868–1935	Coal
Fee Donald Mine One of five distinct lead mines in the historic Strontian mining district -- Corrantee, Middleshop, Fee Donald, Bellsgrove and Whitesmith -- and, per Historic Environment Scotland's own scheduling, one of only two well-preserved lead workings surviving from that district today.	Highland	1727–1871	Lead
Felinfran Colliery To ventilate its Graigola workings it pumped out a pit abandoned forty years earlier and ran its return air through the old shaft bottom under a nickel refinery's yard.	Swansea	1931-32–13 December 1965	Coal
Felixstowe and Trimley Coprolite Diggings Farm labourers dug up what a Cambridge professor took for fossil dung, and it became the world's first artificial chemical fertiliser — most of it was not fossil dung	Suffolk	1842–by 1880s	Coprolite
Felkington Colliery One of north Northumberland's larger pits, working the Bulman seam at 19 fathoms near Duddo until 1906.	Northumberland	By 1874–1906	Coal
Felling Colliery The Tyneside pit whose 1812 explosion killed 92 and set in train the invention of the miners' safety lamp	Tyne and Wear	1779–1931	Coal
Fence Colliery A small colliery at Fence, near Rotherham, South Yorkshire, sunk in the 1840s alongside the Rother Valley.	South Yorkshire	1840s–1904 (pumping station to 1957)	Coal
Fenton Park Colliery The colliery the Potteries dug for itself — leased in 1790 to a company of potters that came to include Spode, Wolfe and Minton, and the most notable pit in Fenton by 1840.	Staffordshire	1728–c. 1879–c. 1879	Coal, Ironstone
Fergushill Colliery Not one colliery but a numbered field of small Ayrshire pits, the numbers running past thirty as each patch was worked out and the next sunk.	North Ayrshire	by 1855	Coal
Ferndale Collieries Two explosions within two years of each other killed 231 men and boys between them — a toll that, combined, ranks among the worst suffered by any single South Wales colliery.	Rhondda Cynon Taf	From 1857 (sinking)–1959-1960	Coal
Ferneybeds Colliery A Widdrington pit that lasted only fourteen years but employed 278 people at its height in 1914.	Northumberland	1910–1924	Coal
Fernhill Colliery For its last decade, Fernhill wasn't really a separate mine at all in working terms — its own shafts fed straight across the Rhigos mountain into Tower Colliery, which did the actual job of bringing the coal out.	Rhondda Cynon Taf	1869-71–1978	Coal
Fernhurst Furnace (North Park Furnace) Recorded as 'ruined' in 1664, then brought back to life a century later purely to cast cannon for two wars, before finally closing for good in the 1770s	West Sussex	1614–1776 or 1777	Iron
Ferniegair Colliery A Hamilton pit where an electric coal-cutter's cable fired gas in 1909 and the widows took the owners to court.	South Lanarkshire	c. 1850–February 1947	Coal
Ferrymoor Colliery Grimethorpe's shallow second pit, a 72-yard drift that ended its life as part of the most productive mine in Britain — and was shut anyway.	South Yorkshire	1915–16–1988	Coal
Ffaldau Colliery Sunk in 1876 and worked for 109 years; when the Coal Board closed it in 1985 it cut the cage ropes and poured 200,000 tonnes of hardcore down the shaft.	Bridgend	1876–November 1985	Coal
Ffaldydre Colliery It was closed in 1963 not for lack of coal but because the neighbouring Glyncastle pit could not keep its men, so Ffaldydre's miners were moved there.	Neath Port Talbot	By 1837–28 September 1963 (or April 1965)	Coal
Fforchaman Colliery Brown's Pit at Cwmaman, sunk to the Aberdare Four-Feet and closed seam by seam in 1965.	Rhondda Cynon Taf	1850s (sinking)–25 September 1965	Coal
Fforchneol Colliery A shopkeeper's colliery that killed one of its owners during the sinking, ruined the other, and lost its overman in a drunken Christmas Day winding.	Rhondda Cynon Taf	1869–1891	Coal
Fforchwen Colliery A Cwmaman colliery begun in 1850 and abandoned at 60 yards, then finished forty-four years later and worked by over a thousand men by 1910.	Rhondda Cynon Taf	1850 (first sinking)–1935	Coal
Ffos-y-Fran Britain's last major opencast coal mine, worked for over a year after its own planning permission had already expired	Merthyr Tydfil	November 2006–30 November 2023	Coal
Ffrwd Colliery A Wrexham colliery, ironworks and brickworks in one, opened to feed its own furnaces and closed for good two years after the ironmaster who built it up died.	Wrexham	c. 1790s (estate pits)–1904	Coal, Fireclay, Ironstone
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
Fir Tree Colliery A small interwar colliery near Crook that passed through four owners in twenty years and ended worked together with its neighbour Woodifield.	County Durham	By 1921–after 1940	Coal
Firbeck Colliery Sixty men died at this one colliery over 43 years of work — never enough at once to count as a single disaster, but a toll that adds up all the same.	Nottinghamshire	1923-25 (sinking)–31 December 1968	Coal
Fishburn Colliery A pit that grew sevenfold in twenty years and ended up piping its own town gas to a hospital and the national grid.	County Durham	1910–1973	Coal
Fishley Colliery A large Black Country colliery where a fireman went into the workings in 1903 and was never seen again.	West Midlands	By 1866–c. 1945	Coal
Fleets Colliery Tranent's last pit, one of the wettest in Britain, where in 1929 George Johnstone led fifty men out of a flooding mine.	East Lothian	1866 (sinking)–1959	Coal
Flimby Colliery Its Rattler seam was given up as unworkable for faults, and among the twenty-three deaths recorded here is a woman: Mary Hines, picker and greaser, crushed by tubs on the surface incline in 1869.	Cumbria	By 1855–1909	Coal
Flinty Fell Lead Rakes Silver-rich lead from these veins went to the royal mint at Carlisle in the 12th century; the first record of mining here is from 1130.	Cumbria	Later Norman–early 19th century	Lead
Flockton Collieries The company that ran these pits gave its workers a library and allotments, and the 1841 child-labour commissioners praised it while recording girls hauling tubs underground.	West Yorkshire	1515–1894	Coal, Ironstone
Florence Colliery The 3rd Duke of Sutherland named it after his eldest daughter, built it a private railway, and bought his own locomotives to work it.	Staffordshire	1874–1990s	Coal
Florence Mine The last deep working iron ore mine in England, kept alive at the end by its own redundant workers	Cumbria	1914–2007	Iron
Flowery Field Colliery A Hyde pit with a steam engine at its shaft bottom, where in 1823 a lady breakfasted underground and in 1842 seventeen died.	Greater Manchester	By 1842 (possibly 1822)–by 1847	Coal
Flushiemere Barytes Mine Barytes in quantity where its neighbours had lead — unusual for this corner of the North Pennine orefield.	County Durham	—	Barite, Lead
Fochriw Colliery A colliery sunk specifically to feed one company's own blast furnaces, worked through at least four serious accidents in seventy years, then shut overnight for purely economic reasons.	Caerphilly	1823 (drift)–1924	Coal
Foggintor Quarry The quarry that supplied Nelson's Column, whose masons' strike in 1842 held up its building.	Devon	c.1820–1906	Granite
Foggs Colliery A canal-side Bolton pit where ten men died in a fire in 1877 and ten more in a falling cage thirty years later.	Greater Manchester	1820s–May 1912	Coal
Follonsby Colliery The pit behind the red Follonsby banner of 1928, with Lenin at its centre; sunk to replace Wardley next door, it ended as Wardley No. 1 and closed in 1974.	Tyne and Wear	By 1909 (sinking)–8 August 1974	Coal
Force Crag Mine Last working metal mine in the Lake District; National Trust site	Cumbria	1839–1990	Lead, Zinc, Barite, Silver
Force Garth Quarry Works almost the full 70-metre thickness of the Great Whin Sill, one of northern England's most distinctive geological features.	County Durham	1932–Still active	Whinstone
Fordel Mains Colliery A small Midlothian pit on Bryan's Splint, a seam named for a village miles away.	Midlothian	From 1920–1940	Coal
Fordell Colliery The wagonway built here in the 1770s to move coal to Inverkeithing, shown on Ainslie's 1775 map, was one of the earliest railways in Scotland.	Fife	1775–28 October 1950	Coal
Foredale Quarry A Ribblesdale limestone quarry high above the dale, its stone lowered by rope-hauled incline to the kilns	North Yorkshire	from 1878	Limestone
Forge Colliery, Nantyglo One of John Lancaster's earliest pits; at least six named men died here between 1857 and 1871, including one in a gas explosion.	Blaenau Gwent	By 1857, possibly earlier–1878–88	Coal
Forge Slope Colliery A small slope whose people were folded into Big Pit, on the hillside where the basic steel process was proved the year before it opened.	Torfaen	1878–June 1931	Coal
Forrestburn Colliery A Northumberland moorland pit that reached its thin Shilbottle seam through two limestones and over 300 feet of rock.	Northumberland	By the 1860s–18 August 1923	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
Forthbank Colliery A Coal Board mine planned to last 24 years that grew to nearly a thousand men and closed after nine.	Clackmannanshire	1892 (reopened 1947)–January 1958	Coal
Fortissat Colliery A Shotts moorland pit worked for coal and ironstone, remembered now by the remains of Scobie's Bing.	North Lanarkshire	By 1875–1949	Coal
Foss Mine Foss is described by some geologists as the largest single accumulation of barium ore anywhere in the world — a genuinely global superlative sitting on an unassuming Perthshire hillside.	Perth and Kinross	1984–2021	Barite
Foulford Colliery A Cowdenbeath pit sunk in 1884 beside the 'Fair Helen' shaft, which closed in 1931 but washed the coal of its neighbours into the 1950s.	Fife	1884–1931	Coal
Foulshiels Colliery Stoneyburn's own pit, whose No. 2 shaft breathed for Loganlea next door and whose 1935 baths and Bents housing scheme were United Collieries' welfare in brick.	West Lothian	By 1894–1957	Coal
Fountains Fell Colliery A colliery on a 2,000-foot Dales summit, sunk to fuel the calamine works at Malham, with a beehive coke oven still standing among its shafts.	North Yorkshire	About 1807–About 1860	Coal
Fourstones Colliery A South Tyne colliery listed for more than a century, working the Little Limestone Coal beside its own bank of lime kilns.	Northumberland	1805–April 1927	Coal
Fowey Consols Joseph Treffry built a canal, a harbour and an aqueduct to serve these copper mines, which at their height employed around 1,800 people.	Cornwall	1813–1867	Copper, Zinc
Foxdale Mines Once the Isle of Man's most productive mining district	Isle of Man	1724–1911	Lead, Silver, Zinc
Foxes Bridge Colliery One of the largest collieries in the Forest of Dean, drowned in 1930 by water running in from a neighbour that had closed the year before — and refused help by the Crown, which held the royalties.	Gloucestershire	1855–10 August 1930	Coal
Foxfield Colliery The last deep mine left standing in the Cheadle Coalfield — literally, since both of its original headgears still stand today, under active restoration by the heritage railway that now runs where its wagons once did.	Staffordshire	Early 1880s (company formed 1893)–1965	Coal
Foxley Colliery A Tollcross pit worked with power-driven coal cutters during the First World War, reached by a mineral line from Carmyle.	Glasgow	By 1898–1925	Coal
Foxyards Colliery Where the Thick Coal flattens out from vertical and was once worked in an open quarry — and where a ground bailiff told the Geological Survey it must be a different seam because a shale parting was a foot thicker.	West Midlands	By 1855–after 1880	Coal, Fireclay
Framlington Colliery A small landsale colliery that sold its coal over the weighbridge to whoever came for it, and passed through six owners in seventy years.	Northumberland	By 1860–31 December 1931	Coal
Framwellgate Moor Colliery A colliery sunk on piles through 120 feet of quicksand, and the reason two villages exist.	County Durham	1841–1924	Coal
Frances Colliery An undersea Fife colliery that closed after underground fires broke out during the 1984 strike, becoming a symbol of the coalfield's collapse; its preserved 1943 headframe is recorded as the last complete example of its type of traditional Scottish winding gear.	Fife	1874 (sinking)–3 February 1985	Coal
Frank Mills Mine The toxicity of Frank Mills' own waste has, in its way, preserved a piece of the mine's history: more than a century on, its spoil heaps remain too contaminated with lead and arsenic for anything to grow on them.	Devon	1847–1880	Lead, Silver, Barite, Fluorspar, Iron
Frankfield Colliery A ten-year Glasgow colliery whose manager and oversman were caught by an explosion while checking the idle pit during the 1921 strike.	Glasgow	1915–1925	Coal, Fireclay
Frankland Colliery The Earl of Durham's riverside pit below Framwellgate Moor, where Finchale's monks had dug coal in 1350.	County Durham	1840–March 1934	Coal
Frankland Fold Mine A named 18th-century working within the historic Grassington Moor lead field, once revitalised by the Duke of Devonshire's mining engineer John Taylor.	North Yorkshire	1735–1853	Lead
Frazer's Hush Mine The mine takes its name from a centuries-old hushing site — men flooding and breaching a dam to strip the hillside bare by hand — that was already ancient history by the time 20th-century drilling turned the same ground into a modern fluorspar mine.	County Durham	early 1970s–1999	Fluorspar, Lead
Fremington Edge Quarry Chert mined underground above Swaledale and sent to the Potteries to grind flint into china.	North Yorkshire	By 1905–1950	Chert
Frickley Colliery Frickley miners were among the very last in the country to go back to work after the 1984-85 strike ended — refusing to cross a picket line of their own union brothers from Kent.	South Yorkshire	23 April 1903 (sinking)–26 November 1993	Coal
Frizington Iron Mines Frizington's iron ore was so prized for its purity that miners nicknamed it 'the Rolls Royce of ores'.	Cumbria	19th century–by late 1970s	Iron, Barite
Frodingham Ironstone Mines A 25-per-cent ore that built a steel town — and was abandoned not when it ran out but when better ore could be unloaded at Immingham	Lincolnshire	1859–1981 (underground working)	Iron
Froggatt Wood Smelt Mill No document anywhere records this smelt mill's existence -- a 1799 estate map omits it entirely -- yet it survives as one of only a few standing 16th/17th-century examples left in England.	Derbyshire	from 16th	Lead
Fron-Boeth and Pant Mawr Quarry Its access tramway included a roughly 500-yard tunnel through the ridge between Cwm Croesor and Cwm Maesgwyn -- one of the only tunnels in North Wales built purely to carry a tramway rather than as part of a mine, and among the longest cut anywhere for horse-drawn traffic.	Gwynedd	Around 1850–1918	Slate
Frongoch Mine Major Victorian Welsh lead producer	Ceredigion	1792–1910	Lead, Zinc
Frosterley Marble Quarries Produced the fossil-rich black 'marble' used to decorate Durham Cathedral's Chapel of the Nine Altars.	County Durham	worked from at least 1183–by the 20th century	Limestone, Fluorspar
Fryston Colliery Sunk in the grounds of a demolished country house, it washed its neighbours’ coal as well as its own — and when it shut in 1985 Wheldale had to build a washer.	West Yorkshire	1870s–1985	Coal
Furzebrook and Norden Ball Clay Pits The Blue Pool's colour, now a tourist draw, is a direct physical trace of the clay that was once dug there. Not all of the workings were so gentle: Creech Barrow, one of the group's mines, reached around 800 feet underground.	Dorset	Worked from the 18th century–1999 (last underground working)	Ball Clay