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21 mines beginning with I, of 3568.

Mine	Region	Worked	Commodities
Ibstock Colliery Sunk in 1825 by a lace manufacturer who mortgaged his house for it and died bankrupt, and remembered instead for the fireclay the shafts cut on the way down.	Leicestershire	from 1825	Coal, Fireclay
Ifton Colliery The largest colliery in Shropshire, worked by a Welsh coalfield in an English county — its roadways crossed the border underground.	Shropshire	1912 (sinking begun)–22 November 1968	Coal
Ince Hall Arley Pit Its two explosions eleven months apart killed nearly 150 men and boys, the second after the inspector's reforms.	Greater Manchester	from About 1850	Coal
Ince Hall Deep Pit A Hindley pit of many names, the Deep Pit, the Arley Mine and Brown's Pit, where firedamp killed thirteen in 1851.	Greater Manchester	by 1851	Coal
Ince Hall Saw Mill Pit A Wigan pit where a night shot-firer's skipped inspection killed fifteen men in 1874.	Greater Manchester	from 1869	Coal
Ince Moss Colliery Two weeks after the first explosion, the act of reopening the sealed shafts blew flames fifty yards into the sky.	Greater Manchester	1863 (sinking)–November 1962	Coal
Ingham Colliery Twelve men died because a safety lamp was prised open to fix its relighter.	West Yorkshire	1875 (sinking)–1948	Coal
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
Ingliston No. 36 and 37 Pits Shale pits whose workings now lie beneath Edinburgh Airport.	West Lothian	1897–1926	Oil Shale
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
International Colliery, Abercrave Abercrave's French anthracite slant, worked in the 1890s by miners of six nations, sold at auction in 1913 and closed with Abercrave in 1967.	Powys	By 1888–31 May 1967	Coal
Irchester Ironstone Quarries Northamptonshire ironstone workings feeding the county's 19th and 20th-century iron industry.	Northamptonshire	c. 1872–1969	Iron
Ireland Colliery Staveley's 1876 deep winning, sunk through 141 yards of tubbing and named after a director; now Poolsbrook Country Park, remembered by a brass band.	Derbyshire	1876 (sinking from 1872)–1986	Coal
Irthlingborough Ironstone Mine The county's biggest ironstone working is the one you cannot see — driven underground because the overburden was too expensive to strip	Northamptonshire	1915 (quarrying)–1965	Iron
Isabella Colliery, Blyth A Blyth pit sunk in 1848 beside four houses that grew to a village, employing 1,254 people in 1925 and leaving a wooded heap.	Northumberland	1848–12 February 1966	Coal
Isabella Pit, Garforth The Gascoigne family's first Garforth pit, opened in 1833 and worked out in 1925, around which East Garforth grew.	West Yorkshire	1833–1925	Coal
Isle of Canty Colliery The Alloa Coal Company's last new mine, and the first pit the National Coal Board ever closed.	Fife	1939–1948 (abandoned 1949)	Coal
Islip Ironstone Quarry At its height the Islip Iron Co. owned or leased most of the land within a ring of five villages -- Islip, Twywell, Slipton, Sudborough and Lowick.	Northamptonshire	1877–1952	Iron, Limestone
Islwyn Level A sixty-year family level in the Sirhowy valley that grew from seven men to seventy.	Caerphilly	1888–December 1948	Coal
Iveston Colliery A Consett Iron Company pit where a dispute over the 'keeker' ended in 350 people evicted.	County Durham	1839–1892	Coal
Ivy Tor Mine A Dartmoor copper-and-bismuth mine that changed its name three times in its short life: Ivy Tor, Taw River, then Prince of Wales.	Devon	from 1840s	Copper, Arsenic