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10 mines beginning with J, of 3568.

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	By 1894–140	Coal
Jarrow Colliery Simon Temple's Tyneside pit, wrecked by five explosions in under thirty years.	Tyne and Wear	1801 (sinking)–1851	Coal
Jeffreston Colliery A Pembrokeshire anthracite venture whose largest shareholder asked the court to wind it up four years after it opened.	Pembrokeshire	1876–1914	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
Jerviston Colliery One of the early Motherwell collieries, on the estate that is now Colville Park, worked by the Summerlee ironmasters.	North Lanarkshire	By 1840–after 1924	Coal
Jesmond Colliery An early 19th-century Newcastle colliery whose owner rationed his coal to the best in 1827, with a pit in Jesmond Vale sunk in 1829.	Tyne and Wear	1810s–by 1860	Coal
John Pit A Standish pit begun in the 1830s that outlived its deeper neighbour Taylor by breathing through its shaft.	Greater Manchester	c. 1836–1954	Coal
Jordans Mine The mine that moved Portland stone working underground, beneath a cricket ground, schools and roads.	Dorset	2008 (mine–Still active	Limestone
Jubilee Colliery A colliery owned by one of the world's biggest textile-machinery makers, feeding Oldham's mills from the bottom of the coalfield.	Greater Manchester	c.1845–1932	Coal