Mines in East Ayrshire

East Ayrshire's mining and industrial heritage centres on the Doon Valley, where the Dalmellington Iron Company exploited local ironstone and coal from 1847, running fourteen blast furnaces at its peak; the coal interests it left behind went on to control around 70% of the entire Ayrshire coalfield.

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Mine	Worked	Commodities
Afton Colliery	1871–1948	Coal
Annandale Colliery	1857–1928	Coal, Fireclay
Auldhouseburn Colliery	By 1873–1911	Coal
Ballochmyle Colliery	from Working by 1880	Coal
Barony Colliery	From 1907 (sinking)–17 February 1989	Coal
Benbain Colliery	from By 1894	Coal
Caprington Colliery	from By 1781	Coal
Coalburn Colliery, New Cumnock	1854 (present mine 1924)–February 1962	Coal
Dalmellington Iron Works	1847–1921	Iron, Coal
Gasswater Mine	From 1870s–1963	Barite
Gauchalland Colliery	By 1880–Early 20th century	Coal
Glenbuck Colliery	From 1795–1933	Coal
Goatfoot Colliery	1863–1920	Coal
Highhouse Colliery	1894–1983	Coal
Houldsworth Colliery	1900 (sinking)–December 1965	Coal
Kames Colliery	1799 (as Kames Colliery, from 1870)–1968	Coal, Ironstone
Killoch Colliery	From December 1952 (sinking)–1987	Coal
Knockshinnoch Castle Colliery	1942–1968 (closure)	Coal
Knockterra Colliery	By 1877–1910	Coal
Lanemark Colliery	1865–1908	Coal
Littlemill Colliery	1860 (some accounts 1905)–June 1974	Coal
Maxwood Colliery	By 1880–1933	Coal
Muirkirk Collieries	1787–1923	Coal, Ironstone
Pennyvenie Colliery	From 1872–1978	Coal
Polquhairn Colliery	1895–August 1962	Coal
Portland Colliery	By 1856–After 1938	Coal, Fireclay
Rankinston Colliery	By 1880–1913 (ironstone workings abandoned)	Coal, Ironstone
Shieldmains Colliery	By 1900–March 1950	Coal
Waterside Colliery	1848–1986	Coal, Iron