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Mine	Region	Worked	Commodities
Kames Colliery Rebuilt and modernised in the 1950s, only for a match struck to light a cigarette underground to ignite gas and kill seventeen men in 1957.	East Ayrshire	1799 (as Kames Colliery, from 1870)–1968	Coal, Ironstone
Kay's Slope The naked-light slope that ventilated Milfraen's safety-lamp pit, later folded into Blaenavon's super-pit.	Torfaen	By 1894–1958 (merged with Garn)	Coal
Keaglesborough Mine A Tudor tin working whose later stamping mills were driven by a leat carried across the Devonport Leat.	Devon	from early 16th century	Tin
Keepershields Quarry The Whin Sill is 36 metres thick here, thick enough to carry a pegmatite zone that is rare anywhere in Northumberland.	Northumberland	—	Whinstone
Keld Heads Mine Once regarded as the most technologically advanced lead mine in the country before falling lead prices and rising flood-pumping costs shut the whole complex.	North Yorkshire	From the 12th century–c.1884 (closure)	Lead, Silver
Kellingley Colliery Once Europe's largest deep coal mine; its closure in December 2015 ended deep coal mining in Britain	North Yorkshire	1965–18 December 2015	Coal
Kells Pit, Whitehaven The Whitehaven pit whose 1790s Heslop winding engine, the last of its kind, is in the Science Museum.	Cumbria	by 1781	Coal
Kelly Bray Mine A copper mine under the flank of Kit Hill that reached 130 fathoms within a few years, one of the Callington group with Holmbush and Redmoor.	Cornwall	by 1843	Copper
Kelly Mine Went bust in 1951 owing money, so nobody carted the machinery away — and that is why it is all still there	Devon	1797 (first recorded lease)–1951	Micaceous Haematite
Kelton Fell Mine Baird's haematite mine on Kelton Fell, Knockmurton's partner and the terminus of the Rowrah and Kelton Fell Railway.	Cumbria	1869–June 1914	Iron
Kelty Colliery Its Nos. 4 and 5 shafts got a name of their own, and it is the name Kelty remembers.	Fife	from 1850s	Coal
Kemball Colliery In November 1943 it became the first pit training school in Britain — and went on training miners for another twenty-six years after it stopped producing coal.	Staffordshire	1876–November 1963	Coal
Kemberton Colliery Struck by a fatal cage-rope failure in 1910, and by 1934 one of only three significant collieries still working in Shropshire.	Shropshire	1864–1967 or 1968	Coal
Kemnay Quarry Kemnay's stone quite literally underpins some of Britain's most recognisable structures — the Forth Bridge and the Cenotaph among them — a level of national reach unusual for a quarry that began life supplying a small branch railway in rural Aberdeenshire.	Aberdeenshire	1858–c. 1959	Granite
Kendon Colliery A small Mynyddislwyn level of about 1810 where, in 1842, boys of seven to nine worked as colliers and air-door boys.	Caerphilly	c. 1810–1941	Coal
Kenmuirhill Colliery A Clydeside colliery at Carmyle, re-sunk in the 1890s, with pits on both banks of the river and nine seams abandoned together in 1927.	Glasgow	By 1850–1927 (seams abandoned)	Coal
Kennox Colliery Three men from one family -- a father, his son and his nephew -- were trapped by a flood in the colliery's No. 7 mine in 1943; a thirteen-day rescue effort, watched nationally, ultimately failed.	South Lanarkshire	c. 1908–1964 or 1972	Coal
Kensworth Chalk Pit Eight thousand tonnes of chalk a day leave as slurry through a 92 km pipe to Rugby, passing under the M1 four times and saving up to 400 lorry journeys.	Bedfordshire	1964–Still active	Chalk
Kenton Colliery Its coal went down the waggonway where George Stephenson watched a Blenkinsop rack engine run in 1813.	Tyne and Wear	by 1732	Coal
Kepier Colliery A city-edge pit remembered in the local name for the green that replaced it.	County Durham	by 1818	Coal
Kepier Grange Colliery The last of the Kepier pits east of Durham, closed in 1924 after eighty years.	County Durham	1844–22 October 1924	Coal
Kepwick Colliery A limeburner's one-shaft coal pit of 1762 on the Hambleton escarpment, dead within a year.	North Yorkshire	1762–1763	Coal
Kersley Colliery A Bolton-area pit working four seams from four shafts, where a Christmas Eve explosion killed eleven in 1879.	Greater Manchester	—	Coal
Kettleness Alum Works A landslide swallowed the original works and village whole in 1829 — and the industry simply rebuilt on the fresh shale the collapse had exposed and kept going for another thirty years	North Yorkshire	From around 1727–1861	Alum
Ketton Quarry A quarry that supplies two trades from one face: freestone that built Cambridge colleges from the top beds, and limestone and clay for the cement works below.	Rutland	From the 16th century–Still active	Limestone
Kibblesworth Colliery A John Bowes and Partners pit whose coal left by the company’s own rope-worked railway to the staiths at Jarrow.	County Durham	1842–4 October 1974	Coal, Fireclay
Kildonan Gold Rush Scotland's own gold rush; drew 600 prospectors to a remote Sutherland strath before the Duke of Sutherland shut it down within a year	Highland	1869–1870 (formal ban on prospecting)	Gold
Kilgetty Colliery A Pembrokeshire anthracite pit of the 1840s that closed in 1873, was reopened by a later generation in 1935, and closed again on the eve of the war.	Pembrokeshire	c. 1843–1939	Anthracite
Killan Colliery The Inspector did not believe the manager knew how close he was to the old level, and said so: the plan was wrong, and it gave him a false sense of security.	Swansea	1899–1925	Coal
Killhope Lead Mine Preserved site with a working waterwheel; now a museum	County Durham	1818–1910	Lead, Zinc
Killifreth Mine A Chacewater mine worked in turn for copper, tin and arsenic, whose Hawke's Shaft chimney is the tallest surviving mine chimney in Cornwall.	Cornwall	1826–1927	Tin, Copper, Arsenic
Killingbeck Colliery A twenty-year east Leeds pit whose site has become a park.	West Yorkshire	c. 1865–1885	Coal
Killoch Colliery Designed by the same architect, Egon Riss, responsible for Rothes Colliery in Fife — one succeeded where the other became one of the NCB's most notorious failures, though geological trouble caught up with Killoch too in the end.	East Ayrshire	From December 1952 (sinking)–1987	Coal
Killochan Colliery The southernmost pit of the Girvan valley, also called Bargany, which washed the coal of Maxwell and Dalquharran until it closed in 1967.	South Ayrshire	1905–1967	Coal
Kilmersdon Colliery By the time Kilmersdon closed in 1973, its 1877 gravity incline — hauled by nothing more than the weight of loaded wagons descending — was the last one still working industrially anywhere in the country.	Somerset	February 1875–August 1973	Coal
Kiln Pit Hill Colliery A small Northumberland pit of the 1920s and 1930s owned by a woman, Mrs M. A. Robson.	Northumberland	1921–after 1940	Coal
Kilnhurst Colliery Its coal stopped being wound at its own shafts in the 1950s once it was connected underground to the neighbouring Manvers Main Colliery -- yet it kept working underground for another three decades.	South Yorkshire	1858 (as Thrybergh Hall Colliery)–1989	Coal
Kilrenny Oil Works An Edinburgh lamp-maker's oil works at the far eastern end of the Scottish shale industry, whose product was advertised as 'white non-explosive oil'.	Fife	1866–1873	Oil Shale
Kilroot Salt Mine An island whose only rock salt mine exists purely because a Triassic sea, evaporating and refilling over and over, happened to do so here.	County Antrim	1965–Still active	Salt
Kilton Mine A Cleveland ironstone mine whose sinking cost several lives before it opened in 1875, working until 1963 as one of the last of the district's ironstone mines to close.	North Yorkshire	1875 (sinking from 1873)–2 February 1963	Iron
Kilvington Quarry Seven gypsum seams, none of them a metre thick, taken from the surface; the pits are lakes now, with 180 species of birds logged.	Nottinghamshire	Late 20th century–c. 2004	Gypsum
Kimblesworth Colliery Coal sold at Tyne Dock as 'West Leverson Wallsend', from a village the pit created.	County Durham	1873–4 November 1967	Coal
Kimmeridge Oil Shale Workings One band of oil shale a metre thick, turned on Iron Age lathes, burned in Sir William Clavell's Jacobean alum and glass furnaces and mined for Victorian shale oil — and never once worked at a profit.	Dorset	c. 400 BC–c. 1890	Oil Shale, Limestone, Alum
King Barrow Quarry Victorian Portland quarries where the quarrymen dug into Roman burials and beehive chambers.	Dorset	1800s–c. 1900	Limestone
King Edward Mine (South Condurrow) King Edward Mine's real distinction isn't how much tin it produced but what it was built to teach: for over a century it gave generations of Camborne School of Mines students hands-on experience of a fully equipped, fully working Cornish mine, rather than just a classroom account of one.	Cornwall	1844–1896	Tin, Copper
Kinglassie Colliery A pit that fought severe flooding from the day sinking began, and lost four men to two separate roof falls a generation apart.	Fife	1908–1966	Coal
Kings Dyke and Must Farm Clay Pits An accidental by-product of digging for more clay at Must Farm was one of the best-preserved Bronze Age settlements ever excavated in Britain	Cambridgeshire	1920s–1995	Brick Clay
Kingsbury Colliery Turned a farming village into a mining one almost overnight — and gave its name to a purpose-built neighbouring settlement, Piccadilly, that still remembers its miners with a permanently lit lamp.	Warwickshire	1897–1968	Coal
Kingseat Colliery The Halbeath coalmasters' Kingseat pits of the 1860s, reborn as the Dean Colliery in 1902 and drowned out in November 1945; an eleven-year-old coal cleaner is among its named dead.	Fife	c. 1866–1910	Coal, Fireclay, Ironstone
Kingshill No. 3 Colliery No. 3 was meant to speed up a shaft-sinking industry that had barely paused for nationalisation itself — the National Coal Board's very first major sinking in Scotland, built to solve a haulage bottleneck at an already twenty-year-old neighbouring pit.	South Lanarkshire	1946-51–1974	Coal
Kinlet Colliery Built where there was no road, so the lease provided a railway instead; basalt ruined the only seam that paid, and the workings undermined a viaduct.	Shropshire	From late 1890s–September 1937	Coal
Kinneil Colliery For seventeen years you could walk from the Lothians to Fife underneath the Firth of Forth — and the tunnel opened before the bridge did	Falkirk	1892 (Furnace Yard Pit)–1982	Coal
Kinsley Drift A 1970s drift on the dead Hemsworth pit yard, built to be short-lived and closed as uneconomic in 1986 a year after the strike its village rioted in.	West Yorkshire	1978–July 1986	Coal
Kiplingcotes Chalk Pit Dug in the 1800s to build the railway embankments that ran past it, and now an SSSI for the chalk grassland that grew back on the spoil.	East Riding of Yorkshire	from 1800s	Chalk
Kippsbyre Colliery An Airdrie colliery worked for more than a century, where three men lost in a sudden flood in 1939 were never brought out.	North Lanarkshire	By 1836–1955	Coal, Ironstone
Kirkby Colliery Four million pounds went into it in six years and it closed anyway, and its member of parliament spent the debate arguing about what the men would do next.	Nottinghamshire	1890-1915–1968	Coal
Kirkby Slate Quarries England's largest slate quarry -- a single vast pit rather than a network of galleries.	Cumbria	By the 16th century–Still active	Slate
Kirkby Thore Gypsum Mines What began as small workings for whitening doorsteps has grown, through a slow chain of takeovers, into the largest plasterboard works in the world	Cumbria	from From around 1790	Gypsum
Kirkford Colliery The deepest shaft in its district when sunk in 1896-98, which stopped producing in 1928 and then spent decades draining and ventilating its neighbour.	Fife	1896-1898–1928 (stopped producing)	Coal
Kirkheaton Colliery A small Kirkheaton pit and limekiln where two Robert Burns, senior and junior, managed fifteen men for over thirty years.	Northumberland	By 1855–1924	Coal, Fireclay
Kirkhill Colliery A Cambuslang pit whose owner, a local JP and parish council chairman, walked away from the lease in 1899 and left the factor offering to buy the gear.	South Lanarkshire	c. 1880–c. 1900	Coal, Fireclay
Kirkleatham Ironstone Mine A mine that worked two pockets of stone the ice had left behind, failed, and left a village behind it.	North Yorkshire	1872–31 December 1886	Ironstone
Kirkless Hall Colliery John Lancaster's 1845 colliery, the seed of the Wigan Coal and Iron Company, where thirteen died in 1847.	Greater Manchester	from 1845	Coal
Kirkmeadow Mine Its exploring cavers never found documentary proof of the shaft's name, working instead from a field name, 'Kirkmeadow', that may or may not match the old workings below it.	Derbyshire	—	Lead
Kirkness Colliery A parrot-coal pit that flooded in 1892 and became the loading point for Westfield's opencast.	Fife	1840s–c. 1893	Coal
Kirkstone Slate Quarry Explorers who visited soon after its 2012 closure found abandoned blasting explosives still on site — on a route walked by thousands of Lake District visitors every year	Cumbria	1949–2012	Slate
Kirkwood Colliery A Coatbridge colliery that ended its life stooping out old pillars, closing in 1927.	North Lanarkshire	By 1884–1927	Coal
Kit Hill Mine Tin and wolfram workings beneath a Cornish landmark hill, topped by an 1858 ornamental engine-house chimney still among the county's best-known mining silhouettes.	Cornwall	From 15th-16th centuries–1884 (main working ceased)	Tin, Copper, Arsenic, Tungsten, Silver
Kit Tin Mine A minuscule Dartmoor tin mine with every part of a mine in one field, famed for its yellow diamond tin and a piskie's gold.	Devon	By 1799–1904	Tin
Kiveton Park Colliery Turned a farming village of 300 into a mining town of 1,400 in ten years — and of all its buildings only the 1870s office and its gothic clock tower survive.	South Yorkshire	1866–1994	Coal
Knack Mine A remote tin mine re-equipped in 1877 with a waterwheel hauled 25 miles across the moor from Gobbett.	Devon	1835–1879	Tin
Knightswood Colliery Its 1842 evidence explains how a colliers' combination capped every man's output, and how boys counted as a quarter or half a man.	Glasgow	c. 1839–by 1896	Coal, Ironstone
Knockmurton Mine Baird's haematite mine in the Skiddaw Slate, worked for sixty years and given its own mineral railway from Rowrah.	Cumbria	c. 1853–June 1914	Iron
Knockshinnoch Castle Colliery Knockshinnoch's own name is remembered today almost entirely for a single night in 1950 — yet the colliery itself recovered from that disaster and kept working for another eighteen years afterward, reaching its highest ever workforce in 1956.	East Ayrshire	1942–1968 (closure)	Coal
Knockterra Colliery Bairds' small Cumnock pit at Knockterra, 1877 to 1910, kept by one manager for twenty years and remembered mainly through its death list.	East Ayrshire	By 1877–1910	Coal
Knotlow Mine Lead mine hand-worked in solid limestone, active from at least 1702 into the later 19th century; two surviving gin circles and engine house remains.	Derbyshire	at least 1702–later 19th century	Lead
Knowes Colliery Closed by the Minister of Fuel and Power in April 1946 as a punishment for unofficial stoppages — 370 men put out of a pit that never reopened.	West Lothian	1890s–13 April 1946	Coal
Knowton Colliery A machine-mined Shotts colliery of over 450 men in 1924, whose grassed bing still stands above the fields of Knowton Farm.	North Lanarkshire	By 1895–1933	Coal
Knutton Manor Colliery A Silverdale ironstone mine that worked the Black Band and Red Mine measures into the 1920s.	Staffordshire	By 1891–February 1925	Ironstone, Coal