MineArchiveMines
17 mines beginning with V, of 1950.
| Mine | Region | Worked | Commodities |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valleyfield Colliery Its coal spent the last thirteen years travelling to another county underneath the Firth of Forth before it saw daylight |
Fife | 1908–1978 | Coal |
| Van Mine Briefly one of the richest lead mines in the UK during the 1870s boom |
Powys | 1862–1922 | Lead, Silver, Zinc, Barite |
| Vane Tempest Colliery The shafts were sunk using the freezing process — deliberately freezing the ground solid around the shaft as it was dug, to hold back water and quicksand long enough to sink it safely. |
County Durham | Sinking from December 1923; opened 1926–Last working shift 23 October 1992; closed 4 June 1993 | Coal |
| Vanwain Colliery Named alongside fifteen other Dowlais Iron Company levels abandoned together in May 1924, when the works no longer needed its own pits. |
Merthyr Tydfil | No reliable opening date has yet been located.–May 1924 | Coal |
| Varteg Hill Colliery A zig-zag railway of five reverses got the coal off the hill, and a hundred yards below the top of Vipond's incline it crossed over itself. |
Torfaen | Vipond in the area from 1840; Varteg Hill from the 1860s–Merged with Deakins Slope at nationalisation, 1947 | Coal, Ironstone |
| Vauxhall Colliery A Ruabon pit that began as the Kenyon Colliery and took a new name with a new shaft, and worked on for three years after it was first warned of closure. |
Wrexham | 1850s (as Kenyon Colliery)–1928 | Coal |
| Ventonwyn Mine A small Hewas Water tin mine whose stamps engine house still stands alone in a field beside the A390, photographed with its whole workforce lined up in 1894. |
Cornwall | By 1889–c. 1907 (independently); 1913 (with Great Dowgas) | Tin |
| Via Gellia Lead Mines A single 1970s survey of just one part of this valley's mining ground counted 114 shafts — evidence of just how densely this narrow Derbyshire dale was worked for lead over more than a century. |
Derbyshire | By 1750 (Thumper Sitch worked from at least 1754)–c. 1886 | Lead |
| Victoria Colliery, Biddulph Robert Heath's Biddulph Valley pit at Black Bull, renamed Victoria in 1900 and the valley's last deep mine when it shut in 1982; its balance wheel stands outside the town hall. |
Staffordshire | Developed from 1857 (shafts by 1850); renamed Victoria 1900–28 July 1982 | Coal, Ironstone |
| Viewly Hill Ganister Quarry Five people on a Durham moor digging the stone that lined Sheffield's furnaces. |
County Durham | By 1921–1923 | Ganister |
| Vigra Mine Vigra's own story has been almost entirely swallowed by its more famous neighbour: because the two mines were so often worked and recorded together, no one today actually knows how much gold Vigra produced on its own account. |
Gwynedd | 1833 (application); worked as copper mine 1825-1845; gold from 1860s–c. 1910 (little work after 1879) | Gold, Copper |
| Vitifer Mine (Birch Tor and Vitifer) Vitifer holds the distinction of outlasting every other tin mine on Dartmoor: by the time it finally closed in 1925, centuries after stream working first began on the site, it was the last one still standing. |
Devon | documented from 1750 (Vitifer); 1757 (Birch Tor)–1925 | Tin |
| Vivian Quarry Its flooded former workings, up to 18 metres deep, are now a popular diving centre where divers can explore surviving quarry huts and equipment still standing on the submerged quarry floor. |
Gwynedd | 1870s–Slate working finished in 1960. | Slate |
| Voilart Colliery Given railway sidings for a 'new colliery' in 1877, with a brickfield at its door, it had vanished from the map by 1900. |
Swansea | By 1871–By 1900 | Coal |
| Votty and Bowydd Quarry Votty and Bowydd's own history is really the history of two quarries becoming one, then being folded again into its neighbours after closure — a pattern of merger and absorption that runs right through Blaenau Ffestiniog's slate industry. |
Gwynedd | c. 1800–1963 | Slate |
| Vron Colliery The pillars holding up its shafts were mined out from the level next door after it closed. |
Wrexham | Sunk 1806–1930 | Coal |
| Vron Quarry Named its own De Winton locomotive 'Vron' in 1878, and survived long enough to run a second, secondhand locomotive from a neighbouring quarry -- a 1904 Hunslet, originally built for Moel Tryfan Quarry, acquired in the 1900s. |
Gwynedd | Working by 1815 under John Evans–Worked, with interruptions, until 1950. | Slate |