Mines in South Lanarkshire

South Lanarkshire's Leadhills, high in the Lowther Hills, was worked for lead from at least the 13th century and nicknamed 'God's Treasure House' for the richness of its veins. The surrounding streams have also been panned for gold for over 500 years — gold from here is said to have gone into the Honours of Scotland, the Scottish Crown Jewels, around 1540 — and it remains one of the few places in Britain where anyone can legally pan for real gold. The region's coalfield around Blantyre was also the site of Scotland's worst-ever mining disaster, a firedamp explosion that killed 207 men and boys in 1877.

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Mine	Worked	Commodities
Auchinraith Colliery	1872 (drawing coal by 1875)–16 August 1931	Coal
Auchlochan Colliery	1890–1968	Coal, Fireclay
Bankend Colliery	From 1857–1920s	Coal
Bardykes Colliery	1874–1962	Coal
Bent Colliery	from By 1872	Coal
Blantyre Colliery	19th century–1957	Coal
Blantyreferme Colliery	from 1894	Coal
Bothwell Castle Colliery	1875–1959	Coal
Cadzow Colliery	By 1894–From 1930	Coal
Castlehill Colliery	By 1894–1950s	Coal
Clyde Colliery, Hamilton	1890–1930	Coal, Ironstone
Dechmont Colliery	1890–1930 to 1932	Coal
Douglas Castle Colliery	by the 1910s–1950s (precise date unrecorded)	Coal
Earnock Colliery	By 1881–1936	Coal
East Law Colliery	1875–1881	Coal
Eddlewood Colliery	By 1882–c. 1910	Coal
Farme Colliery	Early 1800s–17 July 1931	Coal
Glengonnar	1239–1940	Lead, Silver, Gold
Glentaggart Colliery	1943–1969	Coal
Greenfield Colliery	Early 1860s–After 1933	Coal
Hallside Colliery	1873–1920	Coal
Hamilton Palace Colliery	1884–May 1959	Coal
Home Farm Colliery, Hamilton	About 1864 to 1870–1925	Coal
Hyndford Quarry	1960s–Still active	Sand and Gravel
Kennox Colliery	At least 1910–1972	Coal
Kingshill No. 3 Colliery	1946-51–1974	Coal
Leadhills	1239–1938	Lead, Silver, Gold
Neilsland Colliery	1894 (sinking)–c. 1932	Coal
Newton Colliery, Cambuslang	Early 1850s–After 1939	Coal
Quarter Colliery	By 1841, possibly earlier–1930	Coal
Susanna Mine	16th century–1869	Lead
Tarbrax Oil Shale Mine	1870–1930s	Oil Shale
Udston Colliery	from About 1875	Coal
Waterland Colliery	—	Coal
Wilsontown Ironworks	1779–1842	Iron, Coal