Collieries is the group name for a colliery, which is a coal mine and the associated above ground buildings.
Elsecar Collieries ended in 1984.
Singareni Collieries Company was created in 1920.
Pontefract Collieries F.C. was created in 1958.
Atherton Collieries A.F.C. was created in 1916.
Dalton Main Collieries Ltd. was created in 1899.
Singareni Collieries Employees Union was created in 1978-07.
Peabody purchased maumee collieries coal company in 1959 .
the plural is collieries
There are a total of fifty-two coal mines in the United States. The state with the most collieries is Wyoming which has thirteen coal mines and they are surface mines.
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Largely as a result of Mrs Thatchers dispute with the Miners union. An extended strike left a lot of collieries flooded and unusable, also cheap imports of coal from eastern European countries made British collieries economically nonviable.