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Features sites for museums that present exhibits, interactive experiences, and educational opportunities related to the mining industry located in the United Kingdom.

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• Nenthead Mines Heritage Centre - A museum dedicated to both showing and telling the story of the lead mining past of the North Pennines. Brief description of the past, present and future of the mine.
  
• Dolaucothi Gold Mine - Official description from the National Trust handbook of their preserved gold mine at Llanwrda, Carmarthenshire in South Wales. Guided tours take visitors through the Roman, and the more recent underground workings. Owned by the National Trust.
  
• Blue Hills Tin Streams - Working tin mine offers tours of the mine plus tin jewellery made on site. Includes some history and online guided tour of processes.
  
• National Coal Mining Museum - The museum at Wakefield in West Yorkshire gives the visitor the opportunity to go 450ft down one of the oldest working mines in England. Includes a guide to the history and facilities.
  
• The Scottish Mining Museum - Located at the Lady Victoria Colliery was founded to preserve and present Scotland's mining heritage. Visitor information, history of the mine and information about special functions.
  
• Levant Mine - Former tin and copper mine, home to Cornwall's oldest working beam engine. Photographs, location map, visitor information and news.
  
• Cefn Coed Colliery Museum - Brief description of the facilities at the Cefn Coed Colliery at Neath in South Wales.
  
• National Slate Museum - Heritage centre at Llanberis, bringing back to life the inheritance of the North Wales slate industry. Visitor information, events and educational section.
  
• Purbeck Mineral & Mining Museum - Exhibits artifacts connected to the mining of ball clay. Includes its history and volunteer opportunities. Located at Norden near Corfe Castle Dorset and is part of the Swanage Railway.
  
• The Peak District Mining Museum - Visitor details for this fluorite and lead ore mine located in Matlock Bath, Derbyshire. Includes a downloadable group visitor booking pack.
  
• A Coal Mine Dad? - Bill Riley's collection of articles, stories, pictures, songs, poems and personal memories of the coal mining industry.
  
• Cleveland Ironstone Mining Museum - Visitor information including opening times, map, and bookings. Includes map of ironstone mines and industry history. Located in Skinningrove, Cleveland.
  
• Honister Slate Mine - Describes England's only Slate Mine at Honister Pass, Keswick, where there are underground visits and a heritage centre. The history of the slate mine and general information about slate is given.
  
• Durham Mining Museum - History and culture of the coal mining industry in the North of England. Includes details of fatalities, disaster and collieries and pits.
  
• Haig Colliery Mining Museum - Haig Pit was Cumbria's last deep coal mine. When it closed in 1986, it ended 700 years of mining history in the area. Over 1200 men, women and children had been killed while winning coal in workings up to four miles out beneath the sea.
  
• The Museum of Lead Mining - Scotland's only former lead mine at Wanlockhead in South West Scotland. Brief visitor information about the underground tour, and the museum with its mineral display.
  
• Yorkshire Dales Mining Museum - Contains lead mining relics. Includes an overview of the group, collection details, opening times, and an admission charge.
  
• Keswick Mining Museum - First mining museum to be established in Cumbria and it hosts the a large collection of mining memorabilia. Includes admission details, location, and walks.
  
• Museum of Cannock Chase - Features five galleries displaying documents and artifacts associated with the coalfield. Includes exhibitions, educational programs, events, hours and directions. Free admission. Located in Staffordshire.
  
• Sygun Copper Mine - Situated in the Snowdonia National Park, North Wales, where there are winding tunnels and large, colourful chambers. Brief information about the mine, and about the stalactite and stalagmite formations.
  
• Peak District Mines Historical Society (PDMHS) - Exists to preserve industrial heritage sites related to mining for lead, fluorspar, barytes and other minerals in the Peak District. Information about their projects, resources, museum, publications and a list of British mines in 1896.
  
• The Miners Reunited - An online database enabling ex-miners to get/keep in touch; includes a forum.
  
• Modern History Sourcebook: Women Miners in the English Coal Pits - An account of women and girls working in British coal mines in 1842.
  
• Threlkeld Quarry and Mining Museum - Offers activities for all the family including underground tours. Includes visitor information and history. Located near Keswick, Cumbria.
  
• Llywernog Silver-Lead Mines Museum - The largest lead mining museum complex in Wales, UK. Hours, map, history, and contact information.
  
  

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