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The mine was named after Baron Hatherton, who had assumed the surname Littleton in 1812. The first workings at the mine, however, were conducted by the Cannock and Huntingdon Colliery Company in 1877. Upon sinking the first "No. 1" shaft, they encountered water at a depth of 438 ft (133 metres) and the shaft became flooded. [1]
By 1890, the coalfield was producing 3 million tons of coal per year, [2] and by 1933 this had risen to over 5 million tons. [ 3 ] The last working coal mine beneath Cannock Chase, Littleton Colliery , was situated in the village of Huntington, Staffordshire on the A34 and closed on 3 December 1993. [ 1 ]
The Banner mine disaster of April 8, 1911 near Littleton, Alabama was a coal mine explosion that killed 128 people. The event ranks among the 15 deadliest coal mine disasters in U.S. history. [1] The exact cause of the early-morning blast is unknown.
Breckenridge Brewery – Littleton; acquired by Anheuser-Busch in 2015 [13] Brewability – Englewood; Call to Arms Brewing Company, Denver [14] Camber Brewing Company – Fraser; Cannonball Creek Brewing Company [15] – Golden; Collision Brewing Company [16] – Longmont; Declaration Brewing Company [17] – Denver; DeSteeg Brewing, Denver [18]
The North Antelope Rochelle Mine is the largest coal mine in the world. [1] [2] Located in Campbell County, Wyoming, about 65 miles (105 km) south of Gillette, it produced 85.3 million tons of coal in 2019. [3] [4] Peabody Energy opened the North Antelope Mine in the heart of Wyoming's Powder River Basin in 1983. [5] The Rochelle mine was ...
The Cumberland Mine Railroad is a private carrier mine railroad serving the Cumberland Coal Resources mine near Waynesburg, Pennsylvania. Operations on the mine and associated railroad began in November 1976. The line was originally developed by United States Steel as a source of steam coal for export to Canada. Subsequently, the mine and ...
Several former employees of the now-closed Dirty Pit Craft House in Littleton have reached out to Denver7, saying they are owed thousands in unpaid wages and have filed complaints with the ...
The first deep mine in the parish of High Littleton was Mearns Coalworks which began in 1783. [57] The Greyfield Coal Company did not start until 1833 and expanded after the opening of the Bristol and North Somerset Railway in 1847. [58] Greyfield Colliery closed in 1911, [59] and the railway in 1964. [60]