Coed-Ely Colliery

Coed Ely, Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales, UK

A former colliery worked between 1916 and 1986 for steam coal.

It is known amongst mineral collectors for specimens of millerite.

Sometimes known as coed-ely colliery or coedely colliery. Mindat lists 11 minerals from the site but the best known are the millerite specimens, often occuring alongside galena.

As with many recent collieries, there is a good amount of information about the men who worked the sites, and the amount of coal recovered – but not too much on the geology of the site in this case.

 

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