How many working/ producing mines and underground quarries are there in the u.k?

http://shropshiremines.org.uk/misc/other/min_work.htm 

I can add a couple to that, both in Forest of Dean, Gloucester.

Phoenix (coal)
Hopewell (coal)

Not a lot in fact

Is this a complete list?

I went past two stone quarries: Lafarge and Hanson run I think near Bridgend at the weekend.

There is also a quarry at Penydarren I think.

I might be off track here.

Any thoughts?

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TamarMole was referring to "mines and underground quarries".

Add Hartham Park at Corsham to the list.

Delegates at this years NAMHO conference had a cracking trip here and were made to feel extremely welcome by the quarrry owner and his staff - thoroughly nice people.

South Wales working mines,

Big Mines,

Aberpergwm,
Pentreclwydau-Unity,

Smallmines,

Developing,
Gleision,producing some coal,
Dan y graig No.4,
Johnson,

Nant Hir No.2,producing some coal,but stop start.
Blaentillery No.2,not sure of situation,not heard anything for a while.

FOD working mines,

Monument-Phoenix,
And the replacment for Cannop,name slips me,but developing,

And the Hopewell Museum,produces out of Tourist season.

Some of British Steel's former ironstone workings are not so much open, as in a sort of legal limbo whereby certain sections are under limited care and maintenance.

South Crofty are conducting a programme of drilling and sampling, results unknown.

Wheal Geevor are planning an extension to their tourist route via some re-excavated and re-furbished adit workings. Since they have a manager etc under MASHAM, I assume they are a mine for legal purposes

last I heard from British Gypsum ( early 2010 ), they had four mines in working order and limited production, given the current state of the building trade

I don't know what has happened regarding the proposed underground extension at NCMM - anyone?


I'm pleased to see Unity still working, if only because my assistant from Combe Down went there about a year ago on an apprenticeship, which would have led him to be the first person to pass the MQB Mine Surveyors' Certificate for quite a few years

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I can add a couple to that, both in Forest of Dean, Gloucester.

Phoenix (coal)
Hopewell (coal)

+ Morses Level ?

Hemerdon in Devon ?
Possibly more of a "feasability study"?

http://www.wolfminerals.com.au/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=41&Itemid=75 

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I'd be very sceptical of Hemerdon, it has gone on far too long with no visible result.

Frankly, if South Crofty is a viable prospect, then Hemerdon ought to be gold-plated. Either there are no viable resources there or ( more likely ) the NIMBYs won't let them work it.

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See latest news
http://www.proactiveinvestors.co.uk/companies/news/19960/wolf-minerals-raises-a2m-to-fast-track-hemerdon-ball-tungsten-project-19960.html 

Seems they have enough info now to go out and target investors.
I am pretty sure that although all seems quiet, in fact a fair bit of background work is being done.

No guesses to what other company holds mineral rights in nearby areas!

Yes agree about NIMBYS and also environmental activists who need convincing, as well as lots of environmental surveys etc as it is on Dartmoor.

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Hemerdon have all permits in place, and following the bankable feasibility study I would expect to see development take place very quickly, I expect to see a start on site of March 2011.

Hemerdon have all permits in place, and following the bankable feasibility study I would expect to see development take place very quickly, I expect to see a start on site of March 2011.

Wheal Mexico is the small working used by Geevor as an underground tour for visitors. It is being extended and the refurbished mine should be open for visitors next year.
Legally Geevor is a 'tourist mine' covered by MASHAM etc. and we have regular visits from the Inspectorate.

BOULBY - deepest mine in the UK still producing a gazillion tons of rocksalt and potash!!

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I see the Shropshire Mines list includes Quilkiestone & Sundram Honestone Mines at Stair, Ayrshire. I spent a few hours walking around one of these (south of the river) in spring 2006. It looked disused and two locals I bumped into said the whole Water of Aye / Tam O'Shanter business was in limbo because of needing a new power supply cable.

Does anybody know the latest from there?

Regularly published lists of working mineral extraction sites in the UK comprise:

'International Guide to the Coalfields' - varies between annual and biennial; lists all operating UK open cast and underground coal extraction sites, differentiating the two.

'British Geological Survey Directory of Mines and Quarries' - published approximately every four years; lists all operating mineral extraction sites, differentiating them by mineral and stating whether surface or underground.

The HSE of course hold up to date lists of working mines and quarries in the UK - they supply the raw data for the BGS directory and possibly also for the International Guide to the Coalfields.

The Ireland section is not complete, Omagh gold mine in Northern Ireland (although that was struggling to keep going some time ago), & a rock salt mine; in the Republic as well as gypsum mines there are Lisheen and Galmoy - the latter in the process of closing down but mining of previously abandoned reserves continuing & ore sold elsewhere (possibly to Lisheen) for milling. in the year 2007 (high zinc prices) Lisheen had an operating profit of $US 227 million!