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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 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]
Colorado is the eleventh largest coal-producing state in the country. In 2014, Colorado mines produced 21.8 million metric tons (24.0 million short tons) of coal, and employed 2,069 miners. But in 2022, Colorado mines produced about 12.7 million metric tons of coal. [7] Most Colorado coal is used for electric power generation.
The colliery became part of the National Coal Board on nationalisation in 1947. A drift mine opened in 1974. In 1978 the colliery employed 230 men winning 4,000 tons of coal per week from the Beeston Seam. [4] The coal reserves were exhausted by 1985 and the colliery closed. [11] It reopened as the Yorkshire Mining Museum in 1988. [5]
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 ...
Horning was founded at the opening of a coal mine along the West Side Belt Railroad by the Pittsburg Terminal Coal Company around 1903. In 1905, Philip Murray was elected president of the United Mine Workers of America local in Horning. On February 3, 1926, 20 miners were killed in an explosion in this mine. [3]
In 1913 the mechanical coal cutters used previously were supplanted by hand picks. A new church building for St. Nicholas was completed in 1916. The 1920 Alabama coal strike, combined with a global depreciation in the coal market, led to a shutdown of the mine. When the strike was settled in 1921, Brookside mine was never re-opened.