Mines

Region

Commodity

3 mines beginning with J, of 1950.

Mine	Region	Worked	Commodities
Jackfield Colliery A tile manufacturer’s own pit in the Ironbridge Gorge: William Exley kept fourteen coalminers alongside his thirty-two brickmakers, and the coal ran out long before the clay beneath it did.	Shropshire	By 1869–c. 1940	Coal, Fireclay, Brick Clay
Jamage Colliery A pit on a thick, gassy seam notorious for gob fires; sealing one killed six in 1911.	Staffordshire	Working by 1894; earlier date not established–Still returning 140 people in 1937; closure date not established	Coal
Jenny Gray Colliery A famously wet Lochgelly pit that needed a Cornish pump in the shaft and a steam pump underground, and worked for 105 years.	Fife	1854–September 1959	Coal