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32 mines beginning with V, of 3568.

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	From December 1923 (sinking)–23 October 1992	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	to 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	From 1840–1947	Coal, Ironstone
Varteg Red Ash Level A wet hillside drift on the edge of the coalfield, worked by the Varteg coal owners and then the Coal Board until its last coal went too deep to pump.	Torfaen	1907–24 September 1956	Coal
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
Ventners Hall Colliery A late Northumberland drift on the Thirlwall Coal that worked out two square kilometres in twenty-two years.	Northumberland	1937–20 February 1959	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)	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–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	From 1857–28 July 1982	Coal, Ironstone
Victoria Colliery, Bruntcliffe A Morley pit that exploded twice in one night in 1882 and was stormed by rioting strikers in 1893.	West Yorkshire	from About 1852	Coal
Victoria Colliery, Ebbw Vale An ironworks colliery where coal and ironstone came up the same water-balance shafts, renamed for the Prince of Wales in 1918.	Blaenau Gwent	1838–1929	Coal, Ironstone
Victoria Colliery, Rainford A Rainford pit whose site became an engineering works and then an oil works that kept its railway siding until 1961.	Merseyside	By 1855–after 1905	Coal
Victoria Colliery, Standish A 1900 pit sunk through running sand by the caisson method and wound by an engine handed down from the colliery next door.	Greater Manchester	1900–13 June 1958	Coal
Victoria Colliery, Stanley The 'Deep Drop' at Stanley, one of the deepest pits of its district, where twenty-one died in 1879.	West Yorkshire	1840 (Silkstone Pit)–1922	Coal
Victoria Garesfield Colliery A Priestman drift mine where rats spread a fatal jaundice in 1935, now a wildlife reserve.	Tyne and Wear	1870–13 July 1962	Coal, Fireclay
Victoria Pit, Nitshill Said to be the deepest pit in Scotland, and the scene of one of its worst explosions.	Glasgow	—	Coal
Victoria Pit, West Wemyss The Wemyss estate's No. 7 pit beside West Wemyss harbour, whose shaft was the scene of the 1907 Lochhead fire rescue and later ventilated Lochhead.	Fife	c. 1824–1960s	Coal
Viewly Hill Ganister Quarry Five people on a Durham moor digging the stone that lined Sheffield's furnaces.	County Durham	By 1921–1923	Ganister
Viewpark Colliery An Uddingston pit where an electric coal cutter exploded in a gassy seam in 1922, burning eleven men.	North Lanarkshire	By 1897–by 1942	Coal, Ironstone
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–c. 1910 (little work after 1879)	Gold, Copper
Virtuous Lady Mine A Tavy-side copper mine said to be named for Elizabeth I, whose crystal-lined caverns were a visitor attraction until the 1970s.	Devon	Late 16th century–1873-1879	Copper, Tin, Arsenic
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)–1925	Tin
Vivian Colliery A Six Bells steam-coal pit of Powell's Tillery company, three of whose sinkers died in a misfire in 1890; after 1958 it served as Six Bells Colliery's downcast.	Blaenau Gwent	1889 (sinking)–1958	Coal
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–1960	Slate
Vobster Breach Colliery A short-lived Somerset pit of the 1860s whose coking ovens are the only standing examples of their type in England.	Somerset	1860–by 1884	Coal
Vogrie Colliery A Gorebridge colliery and fireclay works worked for more than a century, whose brick kilns still stand.	Midlothian	By 1823–1939	Coal, Fireclay
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	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	By 1815–1950	Slate