Dauphin County’s Williamstown once ranked among world’s largest coal producers | Column

A federal mine report said the nearly 301,500 tons of coal produced by the colliery in 1873 was “the largest shipment of ...
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Archbald breathing new life into old colliery

ARCHBALD, Pa. — The Gravity Slope Colliery is more than a century old. "This is our history here," said Austin Burke, a member of the Gravity Slope committee. "Over 1,700 people worked right here. And ...
BBC

Maltby Colliery through the years

More than a million tonnes of coal is mined at Maltby Colliery each year Maltby Colliery is one of a handful of deep mines remaining in England. It produces more than a million tonnes of coal a year, ...
The Sun

Ex-miners ‘heartbroken’ as Kellingley Colliery, Britain’s last deep coal mine, is demolished

Former miners who worked at the pit gathered at vantage points around the former colliery site HEARTBROKEN miners watched as Britain’s last deep coal mine demolished today. Tower Two at Kellingley ...
The Conversation

Senghenydd colliery disaster: how Britain’s worst mining tragedy revealed the true price of coal

Ben Curtis does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...
BBC

Bullcroft Colliery coal waste to be reclaimed from tip

A scheme to sell 280,000 tonnes of coal mined from a waste mound at a former colliery site is to go before a South Yorkshire council. The former Bullcroft Colliery tip in Carcroft, near Doncaster, is ...
BBC

Memorial to Maltby Colliery explosion victims unveiled

Twenty-seven men lost their lives while working at Maltby Colliery, near Rotherham, on 28 July, 1923. A memorial to a group of miners killed in an explosion at a colliery more than 90 years ago has ...