Elliot Colliery, New Tredegar, was opened in the late 1880s by the Powell Duffryn Steam Coal Company and was the first of its modern "Super Pits" to be sunk in the Rhymney Valley. The East Pit winding ...

The former Lady Victoria Colliery at Newtongrange is being converted into a hub that will provide green electricity ...

A historic museum on the site of a former coalmine is set to reopen later this year after being bought by a miner's son. Haig Colliery Mining Museum in Kells, Whitehaven, closed in 2016 amid financial ...

Newly approved concept designs have been unveiled to transform a 131-year-old former coal-fired ‘super-pit’ in Scotland into a renewable ...

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