Mines in Isle of Man

The Isle of Man's mining industry was built on lead, zinc and silver, worked most intensively in the 19th century at Foxdale and Laxey — the latter home to the Great Laxey Wheel, the largest surviving working waterwheel in the world, built in 1854 to pump water from the mine below. Manx mining was not without tragedy: the island's worst mining disaster came in 1897, when an underground fire at Snaefell suffocated 20 men. The island is a Crown Dependency rather than part of the United Kingdom, constitutionally distinct from it but closely linked historically, and its mines are covered here as part of the wider mining heritage of the British Isles.

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