Tower Colliery Pit and Opencast

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Tower Colliery (Welsh: Glofa Twr) was the oldest continuously working deep-coal mine in the United Kingdom, and possibly the world, and the last mine of its kind to remain in the South Wales Valleys. It was located near the villages of Hirwaun and Rhigos, north of the town of Aberdare in the Cynon Valley south Wales.
Having mined out the northern coal extracts, the colliery was last worked on 18 January 2008 and the official closure of the colliery occurred on 25 January.
There are hopes to continue with open cast mining in the future.
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Coordinates:   51°44'6"N   3°31'45"W
This article was last modified 14 years ago