MineArchiveMines
12 mines beginning with U, of 1950.
| Mine | Region | Worked | Commodities |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ubberley Colliery John Ridgway the potter's Bucknall colliery, where seven died in an 1851 explosion after the safety lamps were handed in; later a Chatterley Whitfield pit of nearly five hundred, abandoned by 1904. |
Staffordshire | By 1836–1900 (abandoned by 7 September 1904) | Coal |
| Ubley Rake One of two large rakes -- open lead workings over 100 metres long and up to 10 metres deep -- that anchor the historic Charterhouse lead field on Mendip, worked since Roman times and reworked in the 19th century for its own lead-rich slag. |
Somerset | Roman times (industrial phase from 1844-47)–1885 | Lead |
| Udston Colliery A hundred and eighty-four men went down that Saturday morning and seventy-three did not come back up. |
South Lanarkshire | Begun about 1875–No reliable closure date has yet been located. | Coal |
| Ullcoats Mine Once called 'the most prosperous and productive iron mine in West Cumberland', Ullcoats was eventually connected underground to its neighbour Florence Mine, together forming one of the last working iron ore mines in Europe. |
Cumbria | Registered 1897; first shaft sunk 1900–1959 (Ullcoats); 2007 (Florence–Ullcoats complex) | Iron |
| Underwood Colliery A Barber Walker pit at Underwood, worked from 1728 and covered by the 1842 Children's Employment Commission. |
Nottinghamshire | Worked from 1728; 1831, 1855 and 1875 all given–1885 | Coal |
| United Mines Once part of Gwennap's 'richest square mile on earth', this Cornish copper mine worked what was, under John Taylor, described as the richest copper lode in the world. |
Cornwall | c.1780; profitable from 1822 under John Taylor–1857 merged into Clifford Amalgamated Mines | Copper, Tin |
| Unity Brook Colliery Kearsley’s darkest day: forty-three killed in 1878, and a jury that praised the management and declined to recommend safety lamps. |
Greater Manchester | Before 1878–No reliable closure date has yet been located. | Coal, Cannel Coal |
| Universal Colliery Two explosions, twelve years apart, at the same colliery — the second of them still the single worst mining disaster in British history. |
Caerphilly | 1891 (sinking)–1928 | Coal |
| Unst Chromite Mines A narrow-gauge railway built in 1907 to carry the ore never carried a single passenger — and none of Shetland's few industrial railways survived, this one included |
Shetland Islands | 1817 (discovery); 1824 (quarrying)–1944 | Chromite |
| Upton Colliery Forty years from first sod to closure, ended by an explosion that had to be sealed underground and could not be reopened. |
West Yorkshire | 1927–1964 | Coal |
| Upton Pyne Manganese Mine Until 1810 this was the chief manganese producer in southwest England, shipped from Exeter Quay for the glass trade — and, as far as is documented, the first English manganese source ever worked. |
Devon | Ore recognised c.1770; mining began March 1788–Probably by the mid-1820s | Manganese |
| Usworth Colliery Forty-two killed in 1885 by a shot fired in a stone drift — and a relief fund that paid a widow five shillings a week, and stopped if she remarried. |
Tyne and Wear | 1845–1974 | Coal |