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22 mines beginning with U, of 3568.

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–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	from About 1875	Coal
Ulgham Grange Colliery A Widdrington-area colliery of Wood and Slinn that worked out its three seams in seventeen years.	Northumberland	1871–1888	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	1897–1959 (Ullcoats)	Iron
Underwood Colliery A Barber Walker pit at Underwood, worked from 1728 and covered by the 1842 Children's Employment Commission.	Nottinghamshire	From 1728–1885 (as Underwood)	Coal
Union Colliery, Coalway The Forest of Dean pit where seven men were trapped by floodwater in 1902 and three were brought out alive after five days.	Forest of Dean	By 1838–1902	Coal
Union Pit The Cliviger company's gaslit headquarters pit, which outlasted its neighbours into the Second World War.	Lancashire	c. 1853–1943	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.1780–1857	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	from before 1878	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)–1944	Chromite
Upleatham Ironstone Mine A Cleveland ironstone mine whose owners were allowed to take the stone from under Upleatham village, bringing down more than half of it, the Hall included, between 1890 and 1905.	North Yorkshire	1851–1923/24	Iron
Upper Bank Pit A four-year pit near Llansamlet where 150 men escaped a sudden flood and a missing boy was found safe in a floating tram.	Swansea	1904–12 December 1908	Coal
Upper Graigola Colliery One of the cluster of small Swansea Valley levels that took their name from Graig Ola, worked by three successive firms from the 1880s into the 1930s.	Neath Port Talbot	By 1884–1930s	Coal
Upper Hartshay Colliery A Butterley Company pit employing 839 men in 1923, whose name the county record also gives to the Marehay pits beside it.	Derbyshire	By 1849–after 1940	Coal
Upper Slatesike Mine A hand-worked lead mine on Cross Fell whose main level was built by cut and cover to hold the gradient that drained it.	Cumbria	Before 1778–early 19th century	Lead
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	c.1770–Probably by the mid-1820s	Manganese
Urpeth Colliery Bored for coal in 1742 and sunk anew in 1831 by William Coulson, with much of its coal coked on the spot.	County Durham	From 1742–30 March 1957	Coal
Ushaw Moor Colliery A landsale drift of 1858 that grew into a coking colliery, and whose owner sold up in the 1880s after years of strikes he had helped to start.	County Durham	From 1858–5 August 1960	Coal
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