The colliery has a mine life of about 12 years.. The first phase will involve opencast mining. Production will then move underground in about two years' time, producing about one-million tonnes a ...

Taylor and the state Department of Environmental Protection plan to use $265,000-plus in federal funding to tear down a century-old, fire-damaged building at the former Taylor Colliery.

Miners at Goldthorpe Colliery in Barnsley returned to work in ... which closed in 1990 The 65-year-old recalled how on the day he how wrote down his feelings of going back to work and sealed ...

Forty years ago, the bitter year-long miners ... colliery site. "My wife and son who was in a pushchair walked alongside me. The lads were all subdued and overwhelmed really," he said. The 65-year ...

After a long and acrimonious fight, which divided communities and left families on the breadline, miners went back to the pits two days later. All the workforce at Grimethorpe Colliery walked out ...

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty A miner after a shift on the coal face at a south Wales colliery, 1983. Image: Roger ...

Archaeologists uncovered a 3,000-year-old mining factory, worker houses and other ruins at Sukari gold mine, photos show and officials said. Screengrab from @momenelshenawy's YouTube video Seen ...

Built in 1913, the colliery operated until 1955 when the Delaware and Hudson Coal Co. closed it due to excessive mine flooding, according to an Archbald Borough Historical Society infographic.

British coal mining was a rough, tough and exceptionally dangerous occupation ... gold are scattered across Britain’s former coalfields. Explosions at the Oaks Colliery in Barnsley in 1866, Blantyre ...

Alan Mardghum, a former miner at Wearmouth colliery in Sunderland, said: "The worst aspect of it was marching back to work and we were leaving sacked miners on the street. I certainly wasn't proud ...

Miners across South Yorkshire returned to work ... Cortonwood Shopping Centre now stands on the site of the old colliery, but its closure in 1985 is still felt in the community today.

Wayne Rooney has admitted he would prefer Danny Welbeck returning to Manchester United after the 34-year-old striker starred in Brighton's 2-1 victory over Newcastle on Sunday. The Englishman ...