MineArchiveMines
10 mines beginning with I, of 1950.
| 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 | 1825–No reliable closure date has yet been located. | 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 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); working by 1870–November 1962 | Coal |
| Ingham Colliery Twelve men died because a safety lamp was prised open to fix its relighter. |
West Yorkshire | 1875 (sinking)–1948 (combined into Thornhill Colliery) | 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); 1918 (underground)–1965 | Iron |
| 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 |
| 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 | 1840s–No reliable closure date has yet been located. | Copper, Arsenic |