The Scottish Mining Website provides information on the history of Scottish mining, compiled from old reports, gazetteers and newspaper articles. Use of Scottish coal, being relatively low in sulphur, brings environmental benefits through reduced atmospheric emissions. Scottish Coal, which commissioned the multi-million-pound artwork, had originally intended to turn the opencast mine into grazing land but after one of its directors saw Jencks's award-winning work Landform Ueda at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art an alternative plan was drawn up. Currently the site contains more than 22,000 names of those involved in the coal, iron and shale mining industries … Scottish Coal used to produce in excess of 4m tonnes of coal per annum making it the second largest coal producer in the UK. Scottish Mining Website Part 1 - Argyllshire, Ayrshire, Clackmannan, Dumbarton & …

The site contains information on miners’ lives and on some of the mining towns and villages in Lanarkshire, Fife and other areas of Scotland – compiled from old reports, gazetteers and newspaper articles. Few detailed employment records exist from the period before nationalisation in 1947. Central Scottish Coalfields When the coal industry was nationalised in 1947, there were 225 collieries in Scotland; now there are none. Scottish mining saw its peak in the early years of the twentieth century, during which 10% of the Scottish population was involved in the industry. The Scottish Coal Company Limited was the largest coal producer in Scotland, having opencast interests across the Scottish coalfields. Although some deep mining took place as early as the 1500s (in North East England, and along the Firth of Forth coast) deep shaft mining in the UK began to develop extensively in the late 18th century, with rapid expansion throughout the 19th century and early 20th century when the industry peaked. There has been coal mining in Scotland for over a thousand years, operating in tens of thousands of pits. Welcome to the Scottish Mining Website. Welcome to Scottish Mining Villages. Northumberland and Durhamwere the leadin… Coal mining is probably Scotland's oldest major industry. The site includes information on all aspects of life in mining towns and villages from working conditions, accidents and strikes to housing, health and leisure. The industry was then still considered a job for life Opencast coal mining continues in Scotland today, with around half of the UK’s opencast mines found north of …
The Yorkshire pits which supplied Sheffield were only about 300 feet deep. The last six pits to close were Killoch (1989), Bilston Glen (1989), Barony (1989), Frances (1995), Monktonhall (1998) & Longannet (2002) Collieries after Nationalisation in 1947 The location of the coalfields helped to make the prosperity of Lancashire, of Yorkshire, and of South Wales. Mines on monastic estates, such as Carriden and Preston, are mentioned in early charters. The mining accident section covers the whole of Scotland – for the years 1852 to 1914, inclusive, these are taken from the Annual Reports of the Inspector of Mines, for …