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Mine	Region	Worked	Commodities
Raasay Iron Mine Some 260 German prisoners of war worked this mine from 1916, fenced off from the British and local miners beside them — and islanders' own accounts describe surprisingly little ill-feeling between the two	Highland	From 1913–1919	Iron
Racecourse Colliery, Hanley Three shafts sunk on the old Hanley racecourse, where 30,000 people had watched the Potteries races forty years before.	Staffordshire	c. 1870–1941	Coal, Ironstone
Radcliffe Colliery A colliery named for the Earl of Newburgh that grew a village of some 700 people, gave out in the 1890s and had its houses cleared in 1971 for opencast coal.	Northumberland	From 1836–1892 or 1896	Coal, Fireclay
Raglan Colliery The pit where the breakaway Miners' Industrial Union found its first leader in 1926, and whose men struck in 1929 rather than be forced to join it.	Bridgend	c. 1900–15 June 1935	Coal
Railway Pit A candle-lit Cliviger drift whose workings crept four miles under the moor.	Lancashire	c. 1840–1938	Coal
Rainford Colliery A Rainford pit where seven men died fighting a fire in the shaft pillars while it was being deepened in 1869.	Merseyside	Mid 1860s–c. 1928 or 1929	Coal
Rainslow Scrins A geological rarity as much as a mining one: the ten-odd parallel scrins that give the site its name occur in this concentration nowhere else in the country.	Derbyshire	by 1541	Lead
Rainton Meadows Colliery A Londonderry colliery at West Rainton, sunk in 1821 and abandoned in 1896, whose shaft was reopened in 1936 to serve neighbouring Houghton Colliery.	County Durham	1824–1896	Coal
Rainton Plain Pit A Rainton pit that exploded twice in six years, killing 82, as the Davy lamp was coming into use.	Tyne and Wear	from 1817 (sinking)	Coal
Raisby Hill Quarry Still working after nearly two centuries, and the type locality for the rock formation that carries its name.	County Durham	By 1896–Still active	Limestone
Ram Hill Colliery A rope-and-drum accident here in 1855 killed two colliers and prompted a government inspector's blunt condemnation of using a jointed rope to draw men up a shaft.	Gloucestershire	1828–1860	Coal
Ramcroft Colliery A wartime pit mothballed for ten years, reopened for the next war, and struck in 1957 over the canteen tea.	Derbyshire	1916 (reopened 1939)–October 1966	Coal
Rampgill Mine At its early-20th-century peak, one purpose-built mill at one Alston Moor village was processing three-fifths of all the zinc ore raised anywhere in Britain — a striking concentration of a whole country's output into a single remote Pennine dale.	Cumbria	1690 (Rampgill Vein discovered)–1949	Lead, Zinc
Ramshaw Colliery A small household-coal colliery of the Gaunless valley, one of the last pits around West Auckland.	County Durham	1928–October 1959	Coal
Ramshawfield Drift A small private drift in the South Tyne valley that kept working the Little Limestone coal until 1982.	Northumberland	By 1937–October 1982	Coal
Ramsley Mine Dartmoor's Sticklepath Fault split the same mineral lodes worked here as at neighbouring Belstone, and the derelict brick flues are still crusted white.	Devon	From 1851–c.1911-12	Copper
Ramsley Moor Lead Smelting Site It isn't a smelting site at all in the usual sense -- it's where the waste slag from a nearby bole fire was broken, washed and resmelted a second time to wring out the lead the first burn had missed.	Derbyshire	from Probably late medieval	Lead
Randolph Colliery A pit that survived a year-long underground fire fed by a neighbouring colliery blaze already two decades old, then worked on for another ninety years.	Fife	1850–1968	Coal
Randolph Colliery, Evenwood Evenwood's big pit, whose coke and gas works outlived it by twenty-two years.	County Durham	1893–1962	Coal
Rankinston Colliery An ironmasters' pit sunk two hundred metres to a two-foot band of ironstone, whose bing still stands over Rankinston.	East Ayrshire	By 1880–1913 (ironstone workings abandoned)	Coal, Ironstone
Ratcheugh Quarry A hundred and twenty quarrymen in 1897, all but two of them working below the face.	Northumberland	By 1896–Still active	Whinstone
Ratgoed Quarry The remotest of the quarries served by the Corris Railway, reached only by its own 1¾-mile horse-worked Ratgoed Tramway -- a line so isolated that it outlived the passenger-carrying Corris Railway itself, still working as a horse-drawn line under British Railways ownership after Corris closed in 1948.	Gwynedd	Before 1844–1946	Slate
Raven Colliery An Amman Valley anthracite pit named for the Dynevor raven, which went through at least eight owners in eighty years.	Carmarthenshire	By 1854–1936	Coal
Ravenhead Colliery Three quarters of its coal went straight to Pilkington's glassworks next door, and Pilkington bought the locomotives that moved it.	Merseyside	1867 (sinking from 1866)–October 1968	Coal, Fireclay
Ravenslodge Colliery A Dewsbury pit drowned in minutes in 1892 when a flawed cast-iron tubbing segment burst in the shaft.	West Yorkshire	by 1892	Coal
Ravensworth Park Drift A 1936 drift that raised gas coal under the National Coal Board until 1968, now beneath the Team Valley estate.	Tyne and Wear	1936–9 March 1968	Coal
Ravensworth Shop Colliery A Team colliery at Lamesley that was working by 1726 and still employed 550 when it closed in 1962.	Tyne and Wear	By 1726 (Allerdean)–23 February 1962	Coal
Raygill Barytes Mine A barytes mine inside a lime quarry that also yielded Ice Age mammoth and hyena bones.	North Yorkshire	1855–1895	Barite, Limestone
Red Gill Mine Its ore is unusually poor in carbonates, a quirk of chemistry that produced an exceptional suite of oxidised copper-lead minerals -- among them the type specimens of redgillite, first described from this site.	Cumbria	from 19th century	Lead, Copper
Red Rake Mine Almost everyone calls it Red Rake Sough, but it was never a drainage sough at all -- it was built purely to haul ore out, one of the rare Derbyshire mine features that carries its own exact date.	Derbyshire	27 October 1851–early 20th century	Lead, Fluorspar
Red Scar Mine Because Red Scar was so remote, the company built its workers proper on-site accommodation -- a rare thing for so short-lived and unsuccessful a venture.	North Yorkshire	1862–1877	Lead
Redburn Mine A Weardale fluorspar mine at Rookhope, reopened in 1964 as the first new mine in the dale that century and worked until 1981.	County Durham	1930s–1981	Fluorspar
Redding Colliery One of Scotland's worst mining disasters happened here in 1923 when old flooded workings burst through a fault the colliery's own managers had trusted as a natural barrier.	Falkirk	From 1896–1958	Coal
Redheugh Colliery The last colliery working in Gateshead itself, abandoned in 1927 — and blown open from below two years later, when its sealed shafts exploded without warning.	Tyne and Wear	1872–28 May 1927	Coal
Redlake China Clay Works A clay works in the middle of the moor that sent its clay eight miles downhill as liquid through a pipe.	Devon	1911–1932	China Clay
Redmire Quarry A Dales quarry that fed Teesside's ironworks for eighty years by aerial ropeway and the Wensleydale line.	North Yorkshire	Before 1912–1992	Limestone
Redmoor Mine A working tin mine as early as the 18th century, closed in the 1892 tin-price collapse, and now the subject of a 21st-century critical-minerals exploration project on the same ground.	Cornwall	1700–1945	Tin, Copper, Arsenic, Tungsten, Lead, Silver
Reedley Colliery Burnley's Barden Pit, where east Lancashire's first pithead baths opened in 1914 and the NCB later tried out American mining methods.	Lancashire	1879–May 1960	Coal
Reigate Caves Silver sand mines entered through doorways in the wall of Britain's oldest road tunnel	Surrey	18th century–early 20th century	Silica Sand
Renishaw Park Colliery A blown-out shot fired to make a roadway high enough for the horses killed twenty-seven men and boys in 1871.	Derbyshire	1860–1989	Coal
Reservoir Colliery A canal-head pit whose bright house coal was shipped by barge to the Oxford colleges and London.	Derbyshire	1875–1948	Coal
Restormel Royal Iron Mine The iron mine Queen Victoria rode into by candlelight in 1846, renamed Royal in her honour.	Cornwall	By 1797–1883	Iron
Reynolton Colliery A Tenby anthracite pit whose 1904 prospectus sold its coal on the strength of the Burton brewers' custom.	Pembrokeshire	By 1901–1921	Coal
Rhas Las Colliery At least three colliers died here in separate roof falls in the early 1850s; the colliery lent its name to the whole district's Nine-Feet (Rhas Las) seam.	Merthyr Tydfil	By 1856, possibly earlier–by 1871	Coal
Rheola Colliery A Vale of Neath mine worked by Cory Brothers until 1921 and reopened as a small licensed mine that used horses into the 1980s.	Neath Port Talbot	By 1854–29 July 1994	Coal
Rhigos Colliery An anthracite drift complex above the Vale of Neath where 16 men died in a 1941 gas explosion the coroner concluded had been set off by a miner smoking underground.	Neath Port Talbot	1919–February 1965	Coal
Rhiw Colbren Colliery Hillside levels above Abertillery that outlived three private owners and closed under the National Coal Board in 1950.	Blaenau Gwent	1886–7 April 1950	Coal
Rhiwbach Quarry A remote Blaenau Ffestiniog slate quarry served by its own tramway to the Ffestiniog Railway, and the last Welsh slate quarry where workers lived on site in barracks.	Gwynedd	Around 1812–1952	Slate
Rhiwgarn Colliery A Tonyrefail level of twelve years and never more than about thirty men, worked by three owners in turn.	Rhondda Cynon Taf	1901–December 1912	Coal
Rhondda Main Colliery A £1.25 million Lewis Merthyr colliery whose pits were named after the owner's daughters, and which lasted only ten years in production.	Bridgend	1909 (sinking)–8 November 1924 (abandoned)	Coal
Rhondda Mountain Colliery A 15-year-old collier, William Morris, died under a roof fall here in 1876; the mine worked on into the 1930s under several owners.	Neath Port Talbot	By 1876–1947 (Nationalisation)	Coal
Rhoose Quarry The overshadowed neighbour: a Blue Lias quarry and cement works kept as make-up capacity for Aberthaw, which nonetheless pioneered low-heat clinker for a dam.	Vale of Glamorgan	1913–1979	Limestone
Rhos Amman Colliery A small Amman Valley pit where seven men resting in a cabin were killed by exploding explosives in 1924, four of them from one family.	Carmarthenshire	from mid-19th century	Coal
Rhos Colliery The parent pit of Wernos: an anthracite colliery whose company reopened its neighbour and was then swallowed by the 1920s anthracite combines.	Carmarthenshire	By 1865–1938	Coal
Rhos Llantwit Colliery A pit that kept to naked lights after the inspector advised safety lamps, a year before its fireman was killed by gas.	Caerphilly	1863–1892	Coal
Rhoswen Colliery A farm level at Argoed that outlasted its first life and kept two to twelve men at work into the 1930s.	Caerphilly	c. 1860–1935	Coal
Rhosydd Quarry Rhosydd's workings reach so far underground that they meet the neighbouring Croesor quarry's own tunnels beneath the mountain — exploration reports describe a genuine underground 'through trip' between the two sites, a rare case of two historic Welsh slate mines still physically joined.	Gwynedd	From 1840–1948	Slate
Rhyd Fach Mine One of the minor lead workings scattered across the Nant-y-Moch valley, in the same mining cluster as the much better documented Eaglebrook and Hafan mines, though no narrative account of its own working history is recorded.	Ceredigion	—	Lead
Rhydding Colliery An eighteenth-century drift near Neath with its own tramroad to the Tennant Canal, where three men died clearing a fall in 1876.	Neath Port Talbot	Mid-18th century–by 1918	Coal
Rhydwain Colliery An early Hirwaun level, documented only by its 1878–82 owner and manager — a genuinely thin record, not a shortcut taken.	Rhondda Cynon Taf	by 1878	Coal
Rhydycar Colliery A pit sunk to the Gellideg seam for the Plymouth Iron Works Company, its name preserving that of the farm whose freehold traces back through a 1729 divided inheritance.	Merthyr Tydfil	19th century–March 1924	Coal
Rhymney Merthyr Colliery Shut down four times and reopened three: No. 1 stopped on New Year's Eve 1922, and No. 2 was still being kept clear of water in 1945.	Caerphilly	1889-1892–1945	Coal
Ribblehead Quarry A Settle-Carlisle railway quarry that later sent ballast down the line and is now left to rewild.	North Yorkshire	Late 1800s–1998	Limestone
Riber Mine A 1950s South African-backed lead venture that drove under Riber Castle and found a medieval wooden pump below the Derwent.	Derbyshire	1950–1959	Lead, Zinc
Riccall Mine The strongest of the Selby super-pit's five satellites, which raised no coal of its own -- everything went underground to Gascoigne Wood -- and cut the complex's last coal in October 2004.	North Yorkshire	From June 1978 (sinking)–26 October 2004	Coal
Riddochhill Colliery Seven photographs of its winding engine were taken in 1968, the year it closed; where the engine went afterwards is not recorded.	West Lothian	1890–1968	Coal
Ridge Quarry Six acres of Bath stone workings that the War Office shortlisted against Chislehurst Caves and a Cheshire salt mine, and which became the template for the Corsham ammunition depots.	Wiltshire	1875–1914	Freestone, Limestone
Rifle Butts Quarry A Cretaceous unconformity kept under a roof — at a quarry the geologist who knows it best doubts was ever a quarry.	East Riding of Yorkshire	from 1860s	Chalk
Rigg Head Quarry A workforce of exactly two in 1930 — one man underground, one at the surface — on a hillside that had been quarried for three centuries.	Cumbria	from Working by 1930	Slate
Rimington Lead Mines Lead and silver workings on the old Lancashire–Yorkshire boundary, assayed in 1656 at 26 pounds of silver to the ton, with a cog and rung gin circle still ringing the main shaft.	Lancashire	Later 16th century–1885	Lead, Silver, Barite
Ringleshutes Mine A Victorian tin mine sunk into medieval openworks, with a 'barracks' where the miners lived on the moor.	Devon	1852 (shafts)–1855	Tin
Ripley Colliery Butterley's own-town pit at Ripley, over a thousand strong when the Coal Board closed it in 1949, whose 1857 explosion put the under-viewer in the dock.	Derbyshire	1846 (museum)–October 1949	Coal
Risca New Pit 120 killed two years after it started raising coal — and, a decade later, the first colliery in South Wales lit by electricity at the pit bottom.	Caerphilly	1878–1967	Coal
Risehow Colliery Opened in 1918 as its neighbour Flimby was finishing, and grew to 915 men by 1925 — the West Cumberland pit that outlasted them all.	Cumbria	1918–1966	Coal
Rishton Colliery A Rishton pit that went on supplying water, to a reservoir and a paper mill, long after its coal stopped.	Lancashire	1883 (sinking)–5 May 1941	Coal
Rising Sun Colliery In 1935 its coal preparation plant was called probably the most complete in the world; the site is now a country park.	Tyne and Wear	1908–26 April 1969	Coal
River Level Colliery, Aberdare Abernant levels opened by the Aberdare Iron Company in the early 1830s, with a fatal explosion reported in 1836.	Rhondda Cynon Taf	Early 1830s–1940	Coal
Roachburn Colliery Cumbria's first electrically powered colliery, abandoned after its workings broke into the bed of a tarn in 1908.	Cumbria	1893 or 1895–1912	Coal
Roanhead Iron Mine Controlled by one family, the Kennedys, across three generations of Furness ironmasters.	Cumbria	1852–1942	Iron
Rob Royd Colliery A Strafford Collieries pit at Dodworth, opened 1896 and closed 1935, later a pumping station.	South Yorkshire	1896–1935	Coal
Robbins Colliery Worked in the mid-1800s by the Cyfarthfa Iron Company.	Merthyr Tydfil	by the 1820s	Coal
Robertsbridge Furnace A Wealden ironworks on the 'sow track' route carrying iron goods toward the coast.	East Sussex	1539-41–1793 (furnace)	Iron
Robin Hood Colliery J. and J. Charlesworth named their pits after their daughters, and this one was Jane Pit; a brick ventilation shaft by the recreation ground is all that is left of it.	West Yorkshire	1854–1960s	Coal
Robroyston Colliery A Glasgow pit where an overwind in 1924 threw one cage into the headgear and the other down the shaft.	Glasgow	ended by 1933	Coal, Ironstone
Rock Colliery, Blackwood Budd's Rock, a house-coal level and shaft north of Blackwood worked from the early 1800s to 1957.	Caerphilly	Early 1800s (1878 by another account)–1957	Coal
Rockingham Colliery Newton, Chambers and Co.'s colliery at Birdwell, sunk in 1873-75, where the inspector reported three fatal shaft accidents in quick succession in 1876.	South Yorkshire	1873–1875 (sinking)–20 November 1979	Coal
Rockwood Colliery A Taffs Well drift reopened on the eve of the war and worked by tunnels and diesel trains into the 1960s.	Rhondda Cynon Taf	c. 1905 (reopened 1937)–May 1963	Coal
Rodderup Fell Mine Laid out by John Smeaton in the 1770s, and the only Alston Moor mine ever worked commercially for fluorspar.	Cumbria	From about 1800–1948	Lead, Fluorspar
Roddymoor Colliery Five seams within 34 fathoms of the surface, feeding the byproduct coke ovens that made 'Pease's West' coke and built the village.	County Durham	1844–10 August 1963	Coal, Witherite, Fireclay
Roger Mine The last deep mine of the Kirkconnel coalfield, a post-war National Coal Board drift that worked until 1980.	Dumfries and Galloway	1952–September 1980	Coal
Rogerley Mine Rogerley's green fluorite doesn't need an ultraviolet lamp to fluoresce — held up to ordinary daylight, it glows a visible bluish-violet, a property rare enough that it made an obscure 19th-century limestone quarry a destination for mineral collectors worldwide.	County Durham	from early 1970s	Fluorspar
Roman Camp No. 1 Mine A shale mine whose adit came out of one side of a burn and crossed it on a trestle to tip straight into railway wagons.	West Lothian	to 1918	Oil Shale
Roman Camp No. 2 Mines A shale mine abandoned, then reopened through its old adit with a new partner mine whose adit dipped at 56 degrees.	West Lothian	Before 1893–1930	Oil Shale
Roman Camp No. 3 Mine A shale mine driven through a hundred feet of volcanic rock to reach the shale beyond.	West Lothian	By 1906–1938	Oil Shale
Roman Camp No. 4 Pit A pit sunk into a small, isolated basin of shale and worked until there was practically nothing left.	West Lothian	c. 1906–1926	Oil Shale
Roman Camp No. 5 Mine A late shale mine whose dook followed the seam down into a trough so deep that the shale stood on end.	West Lothian	1917–1934	Oil Shale
Roman Camp No. 6 Mine A shale mine sunk in the 1930s not to create jobs but to save them, as older mines ran out.	West Lothian	1936–1956	Oil Shale
Roman Camp No. 7 Mine A wartime shale mine that fed its output by tramway into its neighbour, Roman Camp No. 6.	West Lothian	1937–1951	Oil Shale
Roman Gravels Mine Its 'Roman' name was added in the 19th century after miners reported Roman tools, coins and a lead ingot in old workings, finds later writers have doubted, one calling the ingot a likely share-promotion story; yet its open cuts are a rare survival, and it was one of fewer than ten Romano-British mine sites evaluated for protection in 1990–91.	Shropshire	possibly Roman (c. AD 120)–1895	Lead
Rookery Colliery The pit whose flooded workings drowned Diglake in 1895, and the pit from which Diglake's dead were reached again thirty-seven years later.	Staffordshire	1828–1947	Coal
Rookhope (Boltsburn Mine) The most successful of the Weardale Lead Company's mines, made rich by a chance 1892 discovery, and served by a 3-mile aerial ropeway; its fluorite was pure enough to be sold to Zeiss for optics.	County Durham	early 19th century–1931	Lead, Fluorspar
Rose Bridge Colliery The deepest coal shaft in the world in 1872 at 2,448 feet, and by 1923 the colliery employed twenty-four people.	Greater Manchester	1859–24 July 1941	Coal
Rose Heyworth Colliery It was named for the managing director's wife, and for its last twenty-six years its coal came out of a different hillside altogether.	Blaenau Gwent	1872 (sinking)–1985	Coal
Rosebank Colliery, Dunfermline Nimmo's six-pit Rosebank Colliery on Dunfermline's eighteenth-century Elgin coal ground, reworked from 1881 and abandoned in 1918.	Fife	1881–June 1918	Coal
Roseberry Mine The largest of Roseberry Topping's three ironstone mines, once blamed for the 1912 rockfall that gave the hill its lopsided shape -- a verdict modern geology has overturned.	North Yorkshire	1870 (worked 1871-87, 1906-26)–1924 (machinery removed by 1931)	Iron
Rosebush Slate Quarry A Preseli Hills slate quarry that supplied roofing for the Palace of Westminster and spawned a purpose-built railway and a planned Victorian spa village that never took off.	Pembrokeshire	1842–1914	Slate
Rosedale Ironstone Mines A remote moorland ironstone boom that swelled Rosedale's population fivefold, leaving its calcining kilns as landmarks for miles	North Yorkshire	1857 (west side)–1929	Iron
Rosehall Colliery Addie's dozen-pit colliery south of Coatbridge, 1,600 strong in 1910, whose rows reached Orwell and whose 1934 explosion killed five.	North Lanarkshire	1855 (deaths recorded from 1853)–September 1940	Coal, Fireclay, Ironstone
Rosemanowes Quarry A Cornish granite quarry that became Europe's first hot dry rock geothermal experiment — it cracked the granite with water alone, but never found rock hot enough to raise steam.	Cornwall	from 19th century	Granite
Rosevale Mine A small Cornish tin mine at Zennor, now preserved by volunteers as the only underground mine restoration project of its kind in the county.	Cornwall	From the 18th century–1914	Tin
Rosewall Hill Mine A St Ives tin mine whose two engine chimneys still mark the skyline of Rosewall Hill.	Cornwall	By 1761–1876	Tin
Rosie Colliery The Wemyss Coal Company's Rosie pit between East Wemyss and Buckhaven, open from 1880 to 1953, where a pit-head foreman led a dance band.	Fife	1880–December 1953	Coal
Roslin Colliery A Midlothian pit still called The Moat, which grew while its neighbours shrank.	Midlothian	c. 1876–1969	Coal
Rossington Colliery Sinking very nearly failed in its first fortnight, before it had even reached coal — the shaft flooded so fast that work had to stop completely for seven months.	South Yorkshire	From 10 July 1912 (sinking)–31 March 2006	Coal
Rotherham Main Colliery A steelmaker's colliery on Rotherham's doorstep that employed 2,000 men before 1914 and spent its last quarter-century barely working.	South Yorkshire	1890 (sinking)–1954	Coal
Rothes Colliery An entire new town, Glenrothes, was built to serve a mine that operated for barely four years after its royal opening before failing so badly it became a byword for the National Coal Board's overreach in Scotland.	Fife	1946 (sinking)–May 1962	Coal
Rothwell Haigh Colliery A Charlesworth colliery on Rothwell Haigh with a thirteen-death accident in 1797, worked to 1983 and now Rothwell Country Park.	West Yorkshire	pre-1797–9 December 1983	Coal
Rough Lea Colliery The largest of Hunwick's pits, whose fireclay pipe works outlived it by forty years.	County Durham	1858–1931	Coal
Roughton Gill Mine Roughton Gill's mineral specimens are prized among collectors today for their striking secondary minerals — including linarite, mimetite and pyromorphite — a colourful legacy of the same rich copper- and lead-bearing ground that first drew German miners to the Caldbeck Fells in the 1560s.	Cumbria	12th century (earliest possible)–17th century	Copper, Silver, Zinc, Barite, Lead
Rounds Green New Pit Oldbury's worst pit disaster, nineteen dead in 1846, which reached Parliament and a famous Black Country poster.	West Midlands	By 1846–1919	Coal
Roundwood Colliery Bought by a Sheffield steelmaker to bankroll the sinking of Silverwood, and joined to it underground.	South Yorkshire	Early 1860s–early 1960s	Coal
Rowhurst Colliery Shelton Colliery's Rowhurst pits, wired by rail straight into the Shelton iron and steel works and employing over 700 people at their height.	Staffordshire	to 1909	Coal
Rubislaw Quarry One of the biggest man-made holes in Europe; gave Aberdeen its nickname as the Granite City	Aberdeenshire	1740–1971	Granite
Rudland Colliery Rows of 'bell pits' that an 1780 lease shows were really bord-and-pillar workings, dug for the lime kilns into the twentieth century.	North Yorkshire	By the 1730s–c.1914	Coal
Rudry Colliery A mortgage-ridden pit kept going by the receiver, which sold its fireclay as well as its coal to the brickworks next door.	Caerphilly	1860s–by 1920	Coal, Fireclay
Rufford Colliery A five-ton water barrel plunged 156 yards down its own sinking shaft in 1913 after a stray piece of wood jammed the winding engine's brake and throttle levers, killing fourteen men on a scaffold below in one of Nottinghamshire's worst mining disasters.	Nottinghamshire	1911–1993	Coal
Rumney Quarry Road stone for Victorian Cardiff, cut from a window of Silurian rock in the middle of the suburbs.	Cardiff	19th century–1920s	Limestone, Sandstone
Ruthwaite Mine Thirty tons of ore in 1911 worth fifteen pounds at the mine, and thirty-one people on the books a decade later — nearly all of them at the surface.	Cumbria	1910–1925	Barite
Rutland Colliery The Potters' Ilkeston colliery on the Duke of Rutland's lease, with pits sunk from 1828, whose proprietors went on to form the Manners Colliery Company.	Derbyshire	1828 (Engine Pit No. 1)–April 1887 (No. 4 Pit)	Coal
Rutland Ironstone Quarries The largest walking dragline in the world finished here, then walked to Corby — over ten roads, a railway and the River Welland	Rutland	1882–1973 (last ore to Corby 1980)	Iron
Ryhope Colliery A Durham coast colliery that grew to 2,600 men and gave its village a Miners' Hall of 1880 with an 800-seat lecture hall and a library.	Tyne and Wear	1857 (sinking)–25 November 1966	Coal