Coal mines in Blaenau Gwent

Commodity: Coal · Region: Blaenau Gwent

MineWorkedCommodities
Aberbeeg Colliery About 1860–19 April 1929 Coal
Beaufort Iron Works 1779–1873–1877 Iron, Coal, Limestone
Bedwellty Pits — Coal
Beynon Colliery From 25 April 1922 (sinking)–April 1975 Coal
Cinder Pit, Blaina 1873–31 March 1893 (headgear dismantled 1907) Coal
Clydach Colliery, Brynmawr By 1878, possibly earlier–21 June 1947 Coal
Coalbrook Vale Colliery 1820s–November 1924 Coal
Coed Cae Tillery Colliery 1850s–July 1888 (reopened 1891, wound up 1895) Coal
Cwmtillery Colliery 1840s–1982 Coal
Deep Pit, Nantyglo Early 1830s–Before 1920 Coal
Duffryn Colliery, Brynmawr 1921–By 1935 Coal
East Blaina Red Ash Colliery 1925–Before 1947 (Nationalisation) Coal
Forge Colliery, Nantyglo By 1857, possibly earlier–1878–88 Coal
Garn Colliery, Nantyglo from By 1896 Coal
Griffin No. 1 Colliery Before 1868–c. 1909 or 1922 Coal
Hafod Van Colliery c. 1851–April 1928 Coal
Henwaun Colliery Early 1850s (1856 by another account)–1922 Coal, Ironstone
Llanhilleth Colliery 1850s–1969 Coal
Marine Colliery 1889-91 (sinking)–March 1989 Coal
North Blaina Colliery Probably about 1860–About 1923 Coal
Pen-ffordd-goch Ironstone Scours At least the 17th century–By 1817 (scouring) Ironstone, Coal
Pen-y-fan Colliery c. 1803–After 1923 Coal
Pochin Colliery From 1876 (sinking)–1964 Coal, Ironstone
Rose Heyworth Colliery 1872 (sinking)–1985 Coal
Six Bells Colliery From 1892–1988 Coal
South Griffin Colliery 1882 (sinking)–1921 (coal) Coal
Ty Trist Colliery 1834–1959 Coal, Ironstone
Victoria Colliery, Ebbw Vale 1838–1929 Coal, Ironstone
Waen Nantyglo Colliery By 1896–1923 Coal
Waunllwyd Colliery 1874-76 (sinking)–30 December 1963 Coal, Ironstone

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