Mining 2000

	MINING 2000 . Welcome to the Mining 2000 Page . This page was developed to mark the new century in 2000. Since then it has remained as a simple testament to the loss of one of this country's major industries. In March 2019 Dave Douglass attended a lecture with the title of, "Mining Industry, What Mining Industry?", from speaker: Paul Bradley, CEng, CMgr, FIMMM, MCMI. With a bleak picture of the industry twenty years later, Dave Douglass comments on; Mining Industry, What Mining Industry? On this and the following pages, we will be taking a look at the collieries that are still working today. We will look at their history, their present situation and the forecast for their futures. Sources. We have utilised various sources and references in compiling the Mining 2000 section. Some of this is anecdotal comes from the men and women of the pit communities themselves. From Union officials from the mine companies, some from local papers and publications. Dave Douglass had collected much of the technical , mining data together with social and Trade Union histories during research work for a number of his books and more particularly his MA Thesis on mining contracts nation-wide. The base technical material has come from the recent DTI report on current and forecasted trends in the industry drawn up by International Mining Consultants. Some of the plans used come from here while others came from the respective collieries themselves during the research period. We have had cooperation both from RJB Mining and Hatfield Coal Company in collating materials. We have used many photographs to illustrate these pages. Some are the copyright of Stuart Tomlins, Chairman Of The Shropshire mines Trust, while others are the copyright of A Covell and Dave Douglass. We will endeavour to include the copyright details of photographs we use. If you feel we have missed crediting anyone for their original work, please inform us and we will try to correct the matter.
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	Ayle Pit Northumberland Betws, Ammanford, Carms. Blenkinsopp, Northumberland Clipstone Mansfield, Nottinghamshire Daw Mill Coventry, Warwickshire Ellington The last of the North East mines Gleision Colliery Cilybebyll nr Rhos, South Wales Harworth Colliery Harworth, Doncaster, South Yorkshire Hatfield Main Colliery Stainforth, Doncaster, South Yorkshire Hay Royds West Yorkshire Hill Top Colliery Forest of Rossendale, Lancashire Kellingley Knottingley, North Yorkshire Longannet Clackmannan, Scotland Maltby Rotherham, South Yorkshire Monument Pit Gloucestershire Phoenix and Hopewell, Gloucestershire Prince of Wales Pontefract, West Yorkshire Rossington Colliery Rossington, Doncaster, South Yorkshire The Free Miners of The Royal Forest Of Dean The Selby Complex including: North Selby, Riccall, Whitemoor, Stillingfleet, Wistow & Gascoigne Wood Thoresby Edwinstowe, Nottinghamshire Thorne Colliery Thorne, Nr Doncaster, South Yorkshire Tower Colliery Hirwaun, Glamorgan, South Wales Welbeck Mansfield, Nottinghamshire The Nottingham Coalfield The rise and decline of the Nottinghamshire Area Mining 2000 Conclusions

	These pages are still under construction and, since this is rather a large project, may be for some time.We are looking for photographs and information which we can include in these pages. If you can help, then please don't hesitate to contact us. Also, we have no information at all on these small mines. If anyone could provide us with photographs, historical data, anecdotes, or any other material, we would be extremely grateful. BACKSHOT MINE Forth, South Lanarkshire, Scotland. Licensee, Maxwell Co Ltd, 01977 682966 CRAIG Y PANT COLLIERY Neath and Port Talbot, South Wales. Mizpah Bungalow, Mountain Hare Dinas Road, Pontyneathvaughan. 01639 722 665 Licensee D&D Mining Services Ltd 26 Austin Close Newton, Porthcawl, Bridgend. 01656 786 613 PANTYGASSEG COLLIERY TORFEN, SOUTH WALES Licensee Dragon Coal Corp Ltd Ystrad Colliery Glynmoch Ammanford Carmarthenshire 01269 823 136. Ystrad No 2 Colliery CARMARTHENSHIRE, SOUTH WALES Licensee ES Morris The pludds Ruardean Gloucestershire GL 17 9TY 01594 860274
	Ayle - Betws - Blenkinsopp - Clipstone - Daw Mill - Ellington - Gleision - Harworth - Hatfield Main - Hay Royds Hill Top - Kellingley - Longannet - Monument - Maltby -Phoenix and Hopewell - Prince of Wales - Rossington The Free Miners - The Selby Complex - Thoresby -Thorne - Tower - Welbeck - The Nottingham Coalfield Mining 2000 Conclusions