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Mines 101–200 of 364, A–Z (page 2 of 4).

Mine	Region	Worked	Commodities
Cwm Rheidol Mine Four interconnected mines whose acidic adit drainage is still a live water-quality issue today	Ceredigion	1698–1917	Lead, Zinc, Silver
Cwmorthin Slate Mine A vast abandoned slate mine near Blaenau Ffestiniog once nicknamed 'The Slaughterhouse' for its danger	Gwynedd	1810–1997	Slate
Cwmsymlog Mine Once called 'the richest in lead and silver of any in His Majesty's Dominions'; among Wales's most important lead mines	Ceredigion	1585 (organised working); prehistoric/Roman workings suspected earlier–1901	Lead, Silver
Cwmystwyth Mines Continuously worked longer than almost any UK metal mine	Ceredigion	Bronze Age–1950	Lead, Copper, Silver, Zinc
Cynheidre Colliery Its own seams were so prone to violent gas-and-coal outbursts that 66 were recorded before the disaster that finally forced a change in the law	Carmarthenshire	Shafts sunk 1954-56; production from 1960–1989	Coal
Dalmellington Iron Works Once ran 14 blast furnaces producing 120,000 tons of pig iron a year from local ore and coal	East Ayrshire	1847–1921	Iron, Coal
Daw Mill Colliery Once Britain's biggest coal producer; closed after the worst underground fire in the UK in 30 years	Warwickshire	1956 (sinking); 1959 (shaft completed)–2013	Coal
Delabole Slate Quarry Seven hundred years of continuous working in a single hole, once claimed as the deepest man-made pit on earth	Cornwall	from Working recorded from at least the mid-1200s	Slate
Devon Great Consols Once the largest copper mine in Europe and a major world arsenic source	Devon	1844–1903	Copper, Tin, Arsenic, Tungsten
Ding Dong Mine Local legend held Ding Dong to be older than any Cornish mine but Dolcoath — supposedly worked since before the time of Christ — a claim that can be neither proven nor disproven, since the mine's documented history, though it stretches back to the reign of James I, simply doesn't reach far enough to settle the question either way.	Cornwall	documented from early 17th century; possibly prehistoric–1877 (main working); 1912-1915 and 1928 reopening attempts	Tin, Copper
Dinorwig Slate Quarry Dinorwig's 1909-10 safety record was serious enough to reach the House of Commons and to be cited in a national Royal Commission inquiry into North Wales slate quarrying — a rare case of a single quarry's own casualty figures driving genuinely national safety scrutiny.	Gwynedd	1787–1969	Slate
Dirtlow Rake Mine One of the South Pennines Orefield's important lead lodes near Castleton, documented almost continuously via the surviving Castleton Barmaster Books.	Derbyshire	at least 17th century–20th century	Copper, Lead, Silver, Zinc, Barite, Fluorspar
Dolaucothi Gold Mines Only confirmed Roman gold mine in Britain; National Trust site	Carmarthenshire	c. 70 AD–1938	Gold
Dolcoath Mine Once the world's deepest tin mine, and Cornwall's biggest producer of black tin	Cornwall	1720s–1920	Tin, Copper, Arsenic, Silver
Dorothea Quarry The last new Cornish beam engine ever built, bought by a Welsh slate quarry to keep a vertical vein dry	Gwynedd	1820s–1970	Slate
Dovegang Mine Dovegang's real historical significance lies underground and out of sight: the Longhead Sough, driven here in the 1630s by the same Dutch engineer who later drained the Fens, was the very first of the drainage soughs that went on to define Derbyshire lead mining for the next two centuries.	Derbyshire	already 'ancient' by 1652–gradually exhausted through the 19th century	Lead
Doward Iron Mines Mined so long ago that the Wye tourists of the 18th century, who described everything else in the gorge, did not know there had been mines here.	Herefordshire	Ancient; possibly Roman, certainly long before the 18th century–Last recorded working 1917	Iron, Ochre
Driggith Mine Caldbeck Fells lead/copper mine, most substantially worked from the 1820s, reopened for barytes in 1926.	Cumbria	17th or 18th century–1940s	Copper, Lead, Silver, Zinc, Barite
Droitwich Salt Wells Its brine ran roughly 25 per cent salt by volume — saltier than the Dead Sea — which is exactly why it could rise straight out of the ground on its own	Worcestershire	Salt production from around 600 BC; industrial-scale wells worked into the 19th century–1922 (final closure of Droitwich production, superseded by Stoke Prior from the 1880s)	Salt
Drws-y-Coed Copper Mine Drws-y-Coed drew its workforce from across Britain's copper-mining world at once — Cornish miners recorded from 1761, Scots working alongside them, and, in the 1830s, an entire wave of miners and 'copper ladies' relocating from Anglesey's declining Parys Mountain.	Gwynedd	worked since medieval times; recorded 1284; active mining from 1761/1768–1903	Copper
Dylife Remote and extensive upland lead workings	Powys	1640–1901	Lead, Copper, Silver, Zinc
Easdale Slate Quarries A thriving island slate industry ended almost overnight when a storm flooded the quarries below sea level in 1881	Argyll and Bute	1745 (earlier working recorded from 1168)–1911 (Easdale quarries); wider Slate Islands industry to 1950s	Slate
Easington Colliery Easington's closure in 1993 brought deep mining in County Durham to an end after centuries — but the pit's defining moment had come forty years earlier, in the 1951 explosion still commemorated by 83 memorial trees, one for each life lost.	County Durham	sinking begun 1899; first coal 1910–1993	Coal
East Pool Mine National Trust site with preserved beam engines	Cornwall	1698–1945	Tin, Copper, Arsenic, Tungsten, Uranium
East Wheal Rose The 9 July 1846 flood at East Wheal Rose remains the deadliest single mining disaster in Cornwall's history — a distinction the mine holds despite having recovered to work for another forty years afterward.	Cornwall	lead discovered 1812; mine established 1834–1886	Lead, Silver, Zinc
Ecton Copper Mines Deep and ancient workings in the Manifold Valley	Staffordshire	Bronze Age–1891	Copper, Lead, Zinc
Elterwater Quarry One Lake District slate colour — pale green, with its own distinctive markings — that comes from exactly one place.	Cumbria	Worked since at least the mid-19th century–Still active	Slate
Esgair Hir and Esgair Fraith Mines Known as the 'Welsh Potosi'; its 1689 legal case broke the Crown's monopoly on mining silver and gold	Powys	1691–1904	Lead, Copper
Esgair Mwyn Mine Few British lead mines can claim to have drawn in the direct personal investment of Robert Clive of India — one of the most consequential, and most controversial, figures in 18th-century British imperial history, briefly a stakeholder in a remote Cardiganshire hillside.	Ceredigion	ancient origins (unknown date); rediscovered 1746–1994 (final spoil-reprocessing closure); main lead working ended 1927	Lead, Copper, Silver, Zinc
Eston Ironstone Mines Two men walking in the hills in June 1850 found the outcrop that turned Middlesbrough from a village into an iron town — and named the settlement that grew up around the workings California, after the gold rush.	North Yorkshire	Trial quarrying from August 1850; Upsall pit opened 1851–September 1949	Iron
Excelsior Mine For eighteen months in 1959-60, a nearly abandoned Victorian drainage tunnel on a Cornish hillside became a live testing ground for Cold War nuclear-detection science — decades after the last tin miner had given up on reaching the shaft it was originally dug to drain.	Cornwall	early 1850s–1946 (mining); 1938 (tunnel driving)	Tin, Copper, Tungsten
Fallowfield Mine Went bust on lead, then made its name on the mineral it had been tipping as waste	Northumberland	Documented from 1611; probably Roman in origin–1911	Witherite, Lead, Barite
Fauld Fauld went from an unremarkable Staffordshire gypsum mine to the site of Britain's largest ever explosion almost by accident of geography — chosen for its rural obscurity, the same isolation that made it a good bomb store also meant a single mistake there could do more damage than almost anywhere else in the country without immediately being noticed.	Staffordshire	gypsum worked from the 19th century; RAF ammunition depot from 1937–site closed and fenced off by 1979	Gypsum
Felixstowe and Trimley Coprolite Diggings Farm labourers dug up what a Cambridge professor took for fossil dung, and it became the world's first artificial chemical fertiliser — most of it was not fossil dung	Suffolk	Nodules identified in the Felixstowe cliffs in 1842; commercial digging from about 1845, reaching the Trimley parishes by the early 1870s–Worked out in this area by the 1880s; some Suffolk pits continued into the early 1890s	Coprolite
Fernhurst Furnace (North Park Furnace) Recorded as 'ruined' in 1664, then brought back to life a century later purely to cast cannon for two wars, before finally closing for good in the 1770s	West Sussex	Working by 1614–1776 or 1777	Iron
Ffos-y-Fran Britain's last major opencast coal mine, worked for over a year after its own planning permission had already expired	Merthyr Tydfil	Final approval November 2006; production from 2007–30 November 2023	Coal
Florence Mine The last deep working iron ore mine in England	Cumbria	1914–2007	Iron
Force Crag Mine Last working metal mine in the Lake District; National Trust site	Cumbria	1839–1990	Lead, Zinc, Barite, Silver
Foss Mine Foss is described by some geologists as the largest single accumulation of barium ore anywhere in the world — a genuinely global superlative sitting on an unassuming Perthshire hillside.	Perth and Kinross	discovered late 1970s; production from early 1980s–2021	Barite
Foxdale Mines Once the Isle of Man's most productive mining district	Isle of Man	1724–1911	Lead, Silver, Zinc
Frank Mills Mine The toxicity of Frank Mills' own waste has, in its way, preserved a piece of the mine's history: more than a century on, its spoil heaps remain too contaminated with lead and arsenic for anything to grow on them.	Devon	1847 (search for northern lode extension); main working from 1854–1880	Lead, Silver, Barite, Fluorspar, Iron
Frodingham Ironstone Mines A 25-per-cent ore that built a steel town — and was abandoned not when it ran out but when better ore could be unloaded at Immingham	Lincolnshire	1859–1981 (underground working)	Iron
Frongoch Mine Major Victorian Welsh lead producer	Ceredigion	1792–1910	Lead, Zinc
Furzebrook and Norden Ball Clay Pits The Blue Pool's colour, now a tourist draw, is a direct physical trace of the clay that was once dug there.	Dorset	Worked from the 18th century–Largely wound down through the 20th century as reserves and markets contracted	Ball Clay
Geevor Tin Mine One of the last working Cornish tin mines; now a museum	Cornwall	1911–1990	Tin, Copper
George and Charlotte Copper Mine Named for George III and Queen Charlotte, and now entered on a battery train 460 metres into the Deep Adit	Devon	Opened in the 18th century; copper exported from Morwellham from 1712–1869	Copper, Pyrite
Gethin Colliery Its manager was found responsible for two explosions sixteen years apart and prosecuted for neither	Merthyr Tydfil	1849–Coal production ceased in the 1920s; pumping until 1947	Coal
Glasdir Mine Glasdir's real legacy has nothing to do with how much copper it actually produced — it's that the ore-separation technique proven here in 1897 became the direct ancestor of froth flotation, the process still used to concentrate the great majority of the world's metal ores today.	Gwynedd	worked from c. 1852 (opencast); Elmore family ownership from 1896–1915	Copper, Silver, Gold
Glenboig Fireclay Mines A clay so free of iron and lime that its bricks would not crack — a quarter of a million a day, and a million a year to Germany, Russia and Belgium	North Lanarkshire	1830s; the Glenboig-Inchneuk mine from the 1880s–1956 (Glenboig-Inchneuk); other mines to 1981	Fireclay
Glendinning (Louisa) Mine A remote Scottish valley was, for a few short years in the 1790s, the source of Britain's entire domestic antimony supply.	Dumfries and Galloway	1788–1922	Antimony
Glengonnar Glengonnar's gold rush left behind spoil heaps still known locally as 'gowd scaurs' four centuries later — a folk name for the alluvial workings that has outlasted almost everything else remembered about the gold itself.	South Lanarkshire	1239 (earliest record); worked from 16th century for gold–1940	Lead, Silver, Gold
Glenravel Iron and Bauxite Mines The same rock was worked twice for two entirely different minerals — iron in the Victorian boom, then bauxite when Britain needed aluminium for Spitfires	County Antrim	Outcrop working from 1866; underground mining from January 1867–31 December 1945 (final bauxite closure)	Iron, Bauxite
Golden Dagger Mine The Bronze Age dagger that gave the mine its name links Golden Dagger's own 19th-century industry back to prospectors working the same tin-rich ground roughly four thousand years earlier.	Devon	worked from 1879 (part of the wider Birch Tor and Vitifer mining area, worked since the 15th century)–November 1930 (last commercially worked mine on Dartmoor)	Tin
Goldscope Mine A stream was diverted clean through the mountain to turn a waterwheel hidden underground — one of the more audacious engineering solutions 16th-century German miners brought to Cumbria.	Cumbria	1564–late 19th century	Copper, Lead, Silver, Gold
Good Luck Mine Named for the ore its finders hoped to strike rich — and never did; its real luck was surviving, almost untouched, under the rubble of its own 1950s demolition	Derbyshire	Adit begun 25 October 1830–1952	Lead, Barite, Fluorspar
Grassington Moor Mines A 2.5 sq km lead-mining landscape in the Yorkshire Dales, with a 1.7km smelt-mill flue	North Yorkshire	16th century–1880	Lead, Barite, Fluorspar
Great Laxey Mine Home of the Laxey Wheel, among the largest working waterwheels anywhere	Isle of Man	1780s–1929	Lead, Copper, Silver, Zinc
Great Orme Copper Mines The largest prehistoric copper mine yet discovered anywhere in the world	Conwy	c. 1700 BC (prehistoric); reworked from the late 17th century–c. 600 BC (main prehistoric phase tailed off); worked again into the 19th century	Copper, Lead
Great Rock Mine Sold its ore for the shine, not the iron — the flakes went into the paint on the Sydney Harbour Bridge	Devon	c. 1822–1969	Micaceous Haematite, Iron
Greenburn Mine Greenburn owes its survival today to an unlikely benefactor: the land passed into National Trust care in 1930 as a bequest from Beatrix Heelis — Beatrix Potter — better remembered for Peter Rabbit than for saving a Lake District copper mine.	Cumbria	worked from late 17th century; intensive from c. 1845–c. 1885 (main working); ceased entirely by 1940	Copper
Greenside Mine Major Lake District lead producer with extensive surface remains	Cumbria	1825–1962	Lead, Silver
Gresford Colliery Gresford Colliery reopened and worked for almost forty years after entombing 261 of its own men underground — the sealed Dennis section remaining an active part of the mine's below-ground geography for the rest of its working life, worked around rather than reopened.	Wrexham	1908 (sinking); 1911 (production)–1973	Coal
Grime's Graves A Neolithic flint mine over 4000 years old; miners' antler picks and even a fingerprint survive in its shafts	Norfolk	c. 2500 BC–c. 2200 BC	Flint
Grogwynion Mine Grogwynion was already an old mine by 1744, one of only a handful still working in Ceredigion that year — and low galleries cut by hand with gads, found within the workings, hint at activity older still than any documentary record of the site.	Ceredigion	worked by 1744 (probably earlier)–1889	Lead
Groverake Mine A mine that changed what it was digging for three times over — iron, then lead, then fluorspar — before finally being the last of its kind left standing.	County Durham	Ironstone from 1819; lead and later fluorspar into the 20th century–1999	Fluorspar, Lead, Iron
Gwynfynydd Gold Mine The second-largest gold producer in the Dolgellau gold belt after Clogau; supplied the ingot presented to the Queen on her 60th birthday	Gwynedd	1863 (discovery); 1887 (commercial development)–1998	Gold
Hafna Mine A stepped mill built into the hillside so gravity did the moving, with its smelt house and round chimney still standing — the best-preserved thing in the Gwydir orefield.	Conwy	Early workings of uncertain date; revived 1860, worked continuously from 1862–1913 (the mill worked on to about 1915)	Lead, Zinc, Pyrite
Hafotty Manganese Mine A single new steelmaking process, the Bessemer converter, could turn a thin, steeply dipping seam of ore on a Welsh hillside into a going commercial concern almost overnight — and, just as quickly, cheaper foreign ore could turn it back into a ruin.	Gwynedd	December 1885–1894 (underground working); intermittent surface trials to around 1924	Manganese
Haig Colliery Cumbria's last deep coal mine; its workings ran nearly five miles out under the Irish Sea	Cumbria	1914-18 (sinking); 1916 (production)–1986	Coal
Halkyn Mountain Extensive drainage-level network beneath the mountain	Flintshire	Bronze Age–1987	Lead, Silver, Zinc
Hangman's Wood Deneholes Victorian antiquarians nicknamed these shafts 'Cunobeline's gold mines', after an ancient British king — the truth turned out to be far less romantic: they were most likely dug by medieval farmers chasing nothing more glamorous than fertiliser.	Essex	Medieval or post-medieval (exact date disputed)–Largely disused by the 19th century; access restricted since	Chalk
Hapton Valley Colliery The last deep mine on the Burnley Coalfield; site of a 1962 explosion that killed 19 men	Lancashire	early 1850s–1982	Coal
Hartley Colliery (Hester Pit) New Hartley's single shaft was meant to be the mine's lifeline for coal, men, pumping and air all at once — the same design that made it efficient to build was exactly what turned one broken beam into a tomb for 204 people.	Northumberland	1845-46–1862	Coal
Haytor Granite Quarry Haytor's tramway is a genuine one-off: rather than importing the iron rails a normal horse tramway would use, its builders simply carved the rails themselves out of the same granite the trucks were hauling — turning the transport infrastructure into a product of the quarry it served.	Devon	1820 (quarrying intensified under George Templer)–1858	Granite
Headington Quarry Nine Oxford colleges once owned their own quarries at Headington — meaning some of the university's grandest buildings were, quite literally, dug out of ground the colleges already owned.	Oxfordshire	1396 (first documented, New College bell-tower); possibly worked earlier–1949 (Magdalen/Corporation Pit, the last quarry to close)	Freestone
Hemerdon Mine One of the largest tungsten deposits in the world; reopened in 2015 after 45 years idle, then closed again in 2018	Devon	1867 (discovery); 1919-1920, 1934-1944, 2015-2018 worked; restart under way–1944 (early workings); October 2018 (Wolf Minerals)	Tungsten, Tin
Herbertshire Colliery A tampered safety lamp, a runaway shortcut through a dry, dusty coal-dust seam, and a criminal indictment — the 1893 inquiry into this colliery's explosion reads almost like a detective case	Falkirk	Sunk for ironstone, deepened to coal by 1886–1959	Coal, Iron
Herland Mine Herland's engine house saw a remarkable sequence of the era's most advanced pumping technology pass through it in barely a century — an early Newcomen-type engine in the 1720s, Cornwall's largest single-acting Boulton & Watt engine in the 1790s, and finally a Trevithick engine in 1815 — a working timeline of steam power's entire formative period at one modest Cornish mine.	Cornwall	worked from at least 1726–1874 (final closure, as Rosewarne and Herland United)	Copper, Silver
Herodsfoot Mine Herodsfoot's lodes produced some of the finest 'cogwheel' bournonite specimens ever found in Britain, and pieces from the mine's 1850-1875 heyday remain prized in mineral collections around the world to this day.	Cornwall	early 1700s (intermittent); main working from 1845–1884	Lead, Silver
Hilton and Scordale Mines A lead valley that came back to life on the strength of the waste its first miners threw away — now inside an artillery range.	Cumbria	Worked by the 18th century; London Lead Company from 1824–Work ceased after 1919; lease finally abandoned 1963	Lead, Barite, Fluorspar, Witherite
Hodbarrow Mine One of the largest iron mines in the world, worked entirely beneath water held back by a mile-long artificial sea wall — now a flooded nature reserve.	Cumbria	1856–1968	Iron
Honister Slate Mine England's last working slate mine, shut for eleven years and brought back by one man in 1997	Cumbria	from Late 17th century	Slate
Hook Colliery An anthracite mine whose coal was shipped as far as Singapore and St Helena	Pembrokeshire	1850–1948	Coal
Hopewell Colliery Worked under a right granted by Edward I that only men born in the Hundred of St Briavels can claim	Gloucestershire	from 1822	Coal
Hopton Wood Quarries and Middleton Mine More than 120,000 First World War headstones were cut from it — the same stone as Chatsworth, the Bank of England and Oscar Wilde's tomb	Derbyshire	Quarried from at least the 18th century; underground drift begun 1959–Middleton Mine closed 2005; quarrying ceased 2006	Limestone
Irthlingborough Ironstone Mine The county's biggest ironstone working is the one you cannot see — driven underground because the overburden was too expensive to strip	Northamptonshire	1915 (quarrying); 1918 (underground)–1965	Iron
Kellingley Colliery Once Europe's largest deep coal mine; its closure in December 2015 ended deep coal mining in Britain	North Yorkshire	1965–18 December 2015	Coal
Kelly Mine Went bust in 1951 owing money, so nobody carted the machinery away — and that is why it is all still there	Devon	1797 (first recorded lease)–1951	Micaceous Haematite
Kemnay Quarry Kemnay's stone quite literally underpins some of Britain's most recognisable structures — the Forth Bridge and the Cenotaph among them — a level of national reach unusual for a quarry that began life supplying a small branch railway in rural Aberdeenshire.	Aberdeenshire	1858–large-scale dimension-stone extraction ceased c. 1959; aggregate/walling stone production continues	Granite
Kettleness Alum Works A landslide swallowed the original works and village whole in 1829 — and the industry simply rebuilt on the fresh shale the collapse had exposed and kept going for another thirty years	North Yorkshire	From around 1727–1861	Alum
Kildonan Gold Rush Scotland's own gold rush; drew 600 prospectors to a remote Sutherland strath before the Duke of Sutherland shut it down within a year	Highland	1869–1870 (formal ban on prospecting)	Gold
Killhope Lead Mine Preserved site with a working waterwheel; now a museum	County Durham	1818–1910	Lead, Zinc
Kilmersdon Colliery By the time Kilmersdon closed in 1973, its 1877 gravity incline — hauled by nothing more than the weight of loaded wagons descending — was the last one still working industrially anywhere in the country.	Somerset	February 1875 (coal working in the area documented from 1437)–August 1973	Coal
Kilroot Salt Mine An island whose only rock salt mine exists purely because a Triassic sea, evaporating and refilling over and over, happened to do so here.	County Antrim	1965–Still active	Salt
King Edward Mine (South Condurrow) King Edward Mine's real distinction isn't how much tin it produced but what it was built to teach: for over a century it gave generations of Camborne School of Mines students hands-on experience of a fully equipped, fully working Cornish mine, rather than just a classroom account of one.	Cornwall	South Condurrow reopened 1844; King Edward training mine from 1897, renamed 1901–South Condurrow closed 1896; King Edward operated as a training mine until 2005	Tin, Copper
Kings Dyke and Must Farm Clay Pits An accidental by-product of digging for more clay at Must Farm was one of the best-preserved Bronze Age settlements ever excavated in Britain	Cambridgeshire	from Brickmaking from the late 19th century; the Kings Dyke pit from the 1920s	Brick Clay
Kinneil Colliery For seventeen years you could walk from the Lothians to Fife underneath the Firth of Forth — and the tunnel opened before the bridge did	Falkirk	1892 (Furnace Yard Pit)–1982	Coal
Kirkby Thore Gypsum Mines What began as small workings for whitening doorsteps has grown, through a slow chain of takeovers, into the largest plasterboard works in the world	Cumbria	from Alabaster worked from around 1790; gypsum mining from 1890	Gypsum
Kirkstone Slate Quarry Explorers who visited soon after its 2012 closure found abandoned blasting explosives still on site — on a route walked by thousands of Lake District visitors every year	Cumbria	Long-worked; the modern company formed 1949–2012	Slate
Knockshinnoch Castle Colliery Knockshinnoch's own name is remembered today almost entirely for a single night in 1950 — yet the colliery itself recovered from that disaster and kept working for another eighteen years afterward, reaching its highest ever workforce in 1956.	East Ayrshire	shaft sunk 1942–1968 (closed); abandoned 1969	Coal