Below are a few links to mining sites which might be of interest.

Government DTI Review of remaining reserves at deep mines

South Wales Coalfield Collection at Swansea University - this is a huge archive of information. There are photographs available on a slide show facility if you have an up to date browser.

This site, originally just Gwent mines, now covers the whole of Wales - Welsh Mines

Professor Burt's huge Mining links page at Exeter University

Cefn Coed Colliery - I've visited this during a wet week in Port Eynon. There is an underground gallery and a very slick presentation of the local coal mining industry in the old engine room, which features the original steam engines, turned now by electricity.

You can go down this mine - Big Pit, Blaenavon

This colliery is famous by being the last operating in the South Wales Coalfield - Tower Colliery

A history of the famous Cornish tin mine - Wheal Jane

and a tin mine which you can go down - Poldark Mine

A site about the Aberfan disaster with first hand accounts - Aberfan

Aberfan

Photo : David Harris

A site with Worldwide links to mining pages - Coalinks

This site is well worth a visit - Welsh Mines Society

This site has a searchable map of Great Britain and lots of links - British Mines Society

Quality b&w post-strike photos taken around the South Wales Coalfield by Harald Finster of Aachen, Germany.

Comprehensive Mines Rescue Research site with some uplifting stuff from Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk

Miners' Advice site - if you are a former collier, pay a visit www.minersadvice.co.uk

A German site from Thomas Imgrund, which includes photos of Penallta, Big Pit, Hetty, Lewis Merthyr, Tower and Cefn Coed. Also sites from further afield including Eastern Europe. Excellent photographs www. mining-europe.de