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Coal mines in Wales
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The list Coal mines in Wales includes
Bute Merthyr Colliery, Taff Merthyr, Cambrian Colliery, Aberpergwm and Cefn Coed Colliery Museum.
The list consists of 35 members
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Six Bells Colliery
coal mine in the UK
Overview: Six Bells Colliery was a colliery located in Six Bells, Abertillery, Gwent, Wales. On 28 June 1960 it was the site of an underground explosion which killed 45 of the 48 miners working in that part of ...
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Bute Merthyr Colliery
Welsh coal mine active 1851-1926Overview: The Bute Merthyr Colliery, in Treherbert in the Rhondda Valley, was the first colliery to produce steam coal in the Rhondda valley. A trial pit was dug in 1851, and the colliery was closed in 1926. 0
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Cefn Coed Colliery Museum
Mining museum in Neath Port Talbot, Wales
Overview: Cefn Coed Colliery Museum is a former coal mine, now operating as a museum. It is located at Crynant near Neath in the South Wales Valleys. 0
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Ffos-y-fran Land Reclamation Scheme
Open-pit coal mine in south Wales
Overview: The Ffos-y-fran Land Reclamation Scheme was a major opencast coaling operation to the north-east of Merthyr Tydfil in South Wales. It was the last major opencast mine in the UK, and it shut down in November ... 0
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Big Pit National Coal Museum
Former mine and industrial heritage museum
Overview: Big Pit National Coal Museum (Welsh: Pwll Mawr Amgueddfa Lofaol Cymru) is an industrial heritage museum in Blaenavon, Torfaen, Wales. A working coal mine from 1880 to 1980, it was opened to the public ... 0
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Garw/Ffaldau Colliery
Welsh coal mine active in the 20th centuryOverview: The Garw/Ffaldau Colliery was a colliery formed in 1975 in Pontycymer, Wales. It was formed from the joining together of the Garw Colliery and the Ffaldau Colliery. The Ffaldau Colliery had 1,100 workers ... 0
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Bwllfa Colliery
Welsh coal mine active 1856-1957Overview: Bwllfa Colliery was a coal mine located in the Dare valley near Cwmdare in Rhondda Cynon Taf, South Wales. It operated from 1856 to 1957, remaining open as a ventilation shaft for Mardy Colliery until ... 0
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Great Western Mine
mine in the United Kingdom
Overview: Great Western Mine, also known as Hetty Pit, was a coal mine, at Hopkinstown, near Pontypridd, Glamorgan in South Wales. 0
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Abernant Colliery
coal mine in South Wales (1954-1988)Overview: Abernant Colliery was a coal mine in the River Amman valley at Pwllfawatkin, 4 miles (6.4 km) north of Pontardawe and 13 miles (21 km) north of Swansea, West Wales. 0
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Bersham Colliery
Former coal mine in Wrexham, Wales
Overview: Bersham Colliery was a large coal mine located near Rhostyllen in Wrexham, Wales. The mine accessed seams found in the Denbighshire Coalfield. 0
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Tarenni Colliery
coal mine in the UKOverview: The Tarenni Colliery (Welsh: Gloddfa Tarenni) and its associated workings, are a series of coal mines and pits located between the villages of Godre'r Graig and Cilybebyll located in the valley of the ... 0
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Ferndale Colliery
Group of South Wales coal mines 1857–1959Overview: Ferndale Colliery was a series of nine coal mines, located close to the village of Ferndale, Rhondda Cynon Taf in the Rhondda Valley, South Wales. 0
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Pentremawr Colliery
Defunct coal mine in South WalesOverview: Pentremawr Colliery was a coal mine, located in the Gwendraeth valley in Carmarthenshire, South Wales. 0
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Gresford Colliery
Former coal mine in Gresford, Wrexham, Wales
Overview: Gresford Colliery was a coal mine located a mile from the North Wales village of Gresford, near Wrexham. 0
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Cynheidre Colliery
Welsh coal mine active 1954-1989Overview: Cynheidre Colliery was a coal mine located in the Gwendraeth valley, in Carmarthenshire, South Wales. Opened in 1954, it closed in 1989. 0
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Albion Colliery
Coal mine in WalesOverview: Albion Colliery was a coal mine in South Wales Valleys, located in the village of Cilfynydd, one mile north of Pontypridd. 0
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Abercynon Colliery
Welsh coal mine active 1889-1988
Overview: Abercynon Colliery was a coal mine located in Abercynon, South Wales. Opened in 1889, it closed in 1988. 0
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Universal Colliery
coal mine in Senghenydd, Wales
Overview: Universal Colliery was a coal mine located in Senghenydd in the Aber Valley, roughly four miles north-west of the town of Caerphilly. It was in the county borough of Caerphilly, traditionally in the county ... 0
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Lady Windsor Colliery
Coal mine in South Wales (1884–1988)Overview: David Davies began test bores in the early 1880s at Graigddu (English - Black Rock), which proved positive. Colliery development began in 1884 by Plymouth Estates, later to become the Ocean Coal Company ... 0
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Windsor Colliery
coal mine in Abertridwr, WalesOverview: Windsor Colliery was a coal mine in the village of Abertridwr, Caerphilly. 0
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