Mines in South Yorkshire

South Yorkshire's Cadeby Main Colliery is inseparable from one of Britain's worst mining disasters: a firedamp explosion on 9 July 1912 killed 35 of the 37 miners on shift, and a second explosion hours later killed several more of the rescue party sent in to search for survivors.

Part of Yorkshire.

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Mine	Worked	Commodities
Aldwarke Main Colliery	1867 (Barnsley seam)–30 June 1961	Coal
Askern Main Colliery	April 1911–20 December 1991	Coal
Barley Hall Colliery	June 1886 (sinking)–31 May 1974	Coal
Barnburgh Main Colliery	1911 (sinking)–16 June 1989	Coal
Barnsley Main Colliery	1892–1991	Coal
Bentley Colliery	1895–December 1993	Coal
Birley Collieries	From 1870s–1943	Coal
Brodsworth Colliery	October 1905 (sinking)–7 September 1990	Coal
Brookhouse Colliery	1929–26 October 1985	Coal
Bullcroft Colliery	1911–25 September 1970	Coal
Bullhouse Colliery	to 1954	Coal, Fireclay
Cadeby Main Colliery	1889–7 November 1986	Coal
Carlton Main Colliery	By 1886, possibly earlier–By 1910	Coal
Carr House Colliery	from By 1894	Coal
Cortonwood Colliery	1873–25 October 1985	Coal
Darfield Main Colliery	1856 (sinking)–1989	Coal
Darley Main Colliery	By 1843–1886	Coal
Darton Colliery	By 1890s–August 1948	Coal
Denaby Main Colliery	1863–1968	Coal
Dinnington Colliery	1902 (sinking)–1992	Coal
Dodworth Colliery	1850–1987	Coal
East Gawber Colliery	1856–1921	Coal
Edmunds Main Colliery	1853–1889	Coal
Elsecar Colliery	1794–1923	Coal
Fence Colliery	1840s–1904 (pumping station to 1957)	Coal
Ferrymoor Colliery	1915–16–1988	Coal
Frickley Colliery	23 April 1903 (sinking)–26 November 1993	Coal
Goldthorpe Colliery	1909–1994	Coal
Grange Colliery	1855–July 1962	Coal
Grimethorpe Colliery	From 1894 (sinking)–May 1993	Coal
Handsworth Colliery	1903–October 1967	Coal
Harry Crofts Colliery	1924–1926–1930	Coal
Hatfield Main Colliery	14 October 1911–June 2015	Coal
Hemingfield Colliery	1842 (sinking)–15 May 1920	Coal
Hickleton Main Colliery	1892–1994	Coal
High Hazels Colliery	By 1839–12 September 1925	Coal
Higham Colliery	1854–1881 or 1899	Coal
Highgate Colliery	1916–1985	Coal
Houghton Main Colliery	1873-78–c. 1992/93	Coal
Hoyland Silkstone Colliery	1840 (Hoyland and Elsecar)–May 1928	Coal
Huskar Pit	from c. 1831	Coal
Kilnhurst Colliery	1858 (as Thrybergh Hall Colliery)–1989	Coal
Kiveton Park Colliery	1866–1994	Coal
Lundhill Colliery	1853–1890s	Coal
Maltby Colliery	1908 (sinking)–2013	Coal
Manvers Main Colliery	From May 1867 (sinking)–25 March 1988	Coal
Markham Main Colliery	1916 (sinking)–1996	Coal
Mitchell Main Colliery	1871 (sinking begun)–1956	Coal
Monk Bretton Colliery	1870–1968	Coal
Mount Osborne Colliery	By 1841–1883 or 1894	Coal
New Stubbin Colliery	1913–6 July 1978	Coal
Norfolk Colliery	—	Coal
North Gawber Colliery	1854 (sinking from 1850)–December 1985	Coal
North Staveley Colliery	from 1840s	Coal
Nunnery Colliery	1868–August 1953	Coal
Oaks Colliery	Early 1830s–From 1929	Coal
Orgreave Colliery	1851–October 1981	Coal
Plumbley Colliery	By 1875–By 1914	Coal
Rockingham Colliery	1873–1875 (sinking)–20 November 1979	Coal
Rossington Colliery	From 10 July 1912 (sinking)–31 March 2006	Coal
Roundwood Colliery	Early 1860s–Early 1960s	Coal
Silverwood Colliery	1900 (sinking)–1994	Coal
Smithy Wood Colliery	1890–1986	Coal
South Kirkby Colliery	c. 1880-81–1988	Coal
Swaithe Main Colliery	1861–1894	Coal
Tankersley Colliery	By 1867–1927	Coal
Thorncliffe Colliery	1793 (lease)–2 April 1955	Coal
Thorne Colliery	January 1925–1956	Coal
Thurcroft Colliery	1913–1991	Coal
Tinsley Park Colliery	1819–Early 1943	Coal
Treeton Colliery	1875–7 December 1990	Coal
Warren House Colliery	Early 19th century–c.1918	Coal
Warren Vale Colliery	1840s (production from late 1850)–21 March 1943	Coal
Wath Main Colliery	1873 (sinking)–1 January 1986 (merger)	Coal
Wentworth Silkstone Colliery	1856–1978	Coal
Westwell Colliery	1876–By 1901	Coal
Westwood Colliery	—	Coal
Wharncliffe Carlton Colliery	c. 1878–1910	Coal
Wharncliffe Silkstone Colliery	from 1854	Coal
Wharncliffe Wood Ganister Mines	1860s–c. 1945	Ganister
Wharncliffe Woodmoor Colliery	1871–1965 or 1966	Coal
Wombwell Main Colliery	1852 (sinking)–May 1969	Coal
Woolley Colliery	1869–1987	Coal
Yorkshire Main Colliery	1909 (sinking)–11 October 1985	Coal