Open questions: Fife

Where sources disagree, MineArchive keeps both accounts rather than picking one; where a fact could not be settled, the record says so. 28 such claims on 24 records. All regions.

Charlestown Limeworks

• Sources disagree on the end of the works: most of the complex closed in 1935 as the operation ran down from the 1930s, Wikipedia gives final closure in 1956, and Canmore's excavation report refers to the limeworks having been abandoned in 1957. (disputed)

Denend Colliery

• The colliery was probably sunk in the 1860s and is believed to have ceased coaling in 1895. (uncertain)

Donibristle Colliery

• The BGS mine-plans catalogue holds a Mining Remediation Authority abandonment plan titled 'Donibristle' (catalogue 7896, Lower Splint Or Dunfermline Splint, dated 1928); the catalogue gives no location and the plan's details do not clearly tie it to this working, so it may belong to another of the same name. (uncertain)

Dunnikier Colliery

• The BGS mine-plans catalogue holds a Mining Remediation Authority abandonment plan titled 'Dunnikier' (catalogue S4377, Cardenden Smithy, dated 1902); the catalogue gives no location and the plan's details do not clearly tie it to this working, so it may belong to another of the same name. (uncertain)

Durie Colliery

• Opened in 1855; the museum closes it at 1900 but lists deaths there in 1902 and 1903. (uncertain)

Hugo Pit, Coaltown of Wemyss

• RAILSCOT dates the pit 1872 to 1920, where Fife Pits has coaling ceasing about 1904. (disputed)

Isle of Canty Colliery

• The Isle of Canty drift mine was developed in 1938. (disputed)
• The company's history records the Isle of Canty Mine as started in 1940. (disputed)

Jenny Gray Colliery

• The BGS mine-plans catalogue holds a Mining Remediation Authority abandonment plan titled 'Jenny Gray' (catalogue S4413, Lochgelly Parrot, dated 1855); the catalogue gives no location and the plan's details do not clearly tie it to this working, so it may belong to another of the same name. (uncertain)

Kelty Colliery

• The BGS mine-plans catalogue holds a Mining Remediation Authority abandonment plan titled 'Kelty' (catalogue 7898, Kelty Main, dated 1895); the catalogue gives no location and the plan's details do not clearly tie it to this working, so it may belong to another of the same name. (uncertain)

Kingseat Colliery

• The BGS mine-plans catalogue holds a Mining Remediation Authority abandonment plan titled 'Kingseat' (catalogue S3030, Diamond & Five Feet, dated 1937); the catalogue gives no location and the plan's details do not clearly tie it to this working, so it may belong to another of the same name. (uncertain)

Kirkness Colliery

• In the 1860s and 1870s the Marquis of Northampton was proprietor and William Fraser lessee, with an annual output of 3,000 tons. (uncertain)

Leven Colliery

• The BGS and Mining Remediation Authority catalogue holds an abandonment plan titled 'Leven' for the Parrot seam, dated 1903 (S1067). (uncertain)

Little Raith Colliery

• An early Raith Rovers, distinct from the Kirkcaldy club, was probably named for the Little Raith colliery and merged with Cowdenbeath Rangers to form Cowdenbeath F.C. (uncertain)

Lochgelly Colliery

• The BGS mine-plans catalogue holds a Mining Remediation Authority abandonment plan titled 'Lochgelly' (catalogue 3188, Five Feet, dated 1894); the catalogue gives no location and the plan's details do not clearly tie it to this working, so it may belong to another of the same name. (uncertain)

Lumphinnans No 1 Colliery

• RAILSCOT gives 1852 as the year the colliery was opened beside the Dunfermline branch by the Cowdenbeath Coal Company, to supply ironstone to Lumphinnans Iron Works. (disputed)
• The Lochgelly Times reported in 1957 that the Christie brothers sank the shaft to work ironstone and that the Cowdenbeath Coal Company acquired and developed it in 1881. (disputed)

Mary Colliery, Lochore

• The No. 1 shaft was sunk to 300 fathoms according to Fife Pits and 333 fathoms according to a Scotsman report of 1908. (disputed)

Michael Colliery

• The BGS mine-plans catalogue holds a Mining Remediation Authority abandonment plan titled 'Michael' (catalogue S611, Wemyss Parrot, dated 1958); the catalogue gives no location and the plan's details do not clearly tie it to this working, so it may belong to another of the same name. (uncertain)

Minto Pit

• The Scottish Mining Website's Lochgelly timeline places the sinking of the Minto at Brigghills among the developments of the mid 1890s. (disputed)
• The Diamond section of the pit had a roof of 30 metres of hard sandstone that cracked and fell without warning, causing many fatal accidents, according to a machineman who worked there. (uncertain)

Pirnie Colliery

• The 1880 official list gives 'Firmey, Methhillhill, Fife Coal Co. Limited' beside the company's Leven pit; this record takes the entry to be Pirnie under a garbled name. (uncertain)

Prestonhill Quarry

• An estimated two million cubic metres of rock were taken from the site over its working life. (uncertain)

Thornton Colliery

• In 1785 Lord Balgonie fitted up the engine at Thornton; the Middlefield engine house may be the one he built. (uncertain)

Thornton Mine, Balbeggie

• The National Coal Board's Fife list gives Thornton an opening date of 1900. (disputed)

Torry Colliery, Torryburn

• The Craigflower Pit at Torryburn possibly formed part of the old Torry Colliery. (uncertain)

Wellesley Colliery

• Sources differ on the workforce: Canmore records an average of 1,908 with a peak of 2,603 in 1957, while the Northern Mine Research Society gives an average across the pit's life of 1,208 underground and 342 on the surface. (disputed)
• Methil Docks were fed directly from the colliery and its coal-washing plant at Denbeath; after the 1907 enlargement the works employed over 1,600 people and handled more than 3,500 tons a day. (uncertain)