List of collieries in Newcastle (Australia)

This is a list of collieries near Newcastle New South Wales, Australia, organised by local government areas.

Newcastle

• A.A. Co. 'A' Pit, Cooks Hill (1831-1862) - Australian Agricultural Company
• A.A. Co. 'B' Pit, Cooks Hill (1837-1862) - Australian Agricultural Company
• A.A. Co. 'C' Pit, Cooks Hill (1843-1862) - Australian Agricultural Company
• A.A. Co. 'D' Pit, Hamilton (1848-1901?) - Australian Agricultural Company
• A.A. Co. 'E' Pit, Hamilton (1854-1863) - Australian Agricultural Company
• A.A. Co. 'F' Pit, Cooks Hill (1855-1864) - Australian Agricultural Company
• Borehole No.1 Pit, Hamilton (1857-1901?) - Australian Agricultural Company
• Borehole No.2 Pit, Hamilton (1861-1901) - Australian Agricultural Company
• A.A. Co. 'H' Pit (also known as Hamilton or Glebe Pit) (1871-1889) - Australian Agricultural Company
• Sea Coal Pit (later known as New Winning Colliery), Cooks Hill (1886-1916)- Australian Agricultural Company
• Brown's Colliery (also known as New Tunnel Colliery, Brown's Merthyr Colliery & Back Creek Colliery), Minmi (1876-1924, 1930-1934) - J & A Brown
• Burwood Colliery No.1 Pit, Glenrock (1885-?) - Burwood Coal Mining Company Limited
• Co-Operative Colliery (later known as Wallsend Borehole Colliery), Wallsend (1862-?) - William Laidley & Company
• Duckenfield Colliery, Minmi (1873-1916,1930-1932) - J & A Brown
• Duckenfield No.2 Colliery (renamed Stockrington Colliery 1935), Stockrington (1912-1956) J & A Brown
• Duckenfield No.2 Colliery No.3 Tunnel (later known as Duckenfield No.5 Colliery), Stockrington (1931-1955) - JABAS
• East Lambton Colliery, Lambton (1889-1895) - East Lambton Coal Company
• East Waratah Colliery, Lambton (1882-1889) - Waratah Coal Company
• Freeman's Tunnel Colliery (renamed Stockrington No.2 Colliery 1943), Stockrington (1940-1957) - JABAS
• Glebe Main Colliery, Glebe (1913-1954) - The Newcastle Coal Mining Company Limited
• Glenrock Colliery, Glenrock (1884-1885, 1905-1944) - Messrs Foreshaw & Howley
• Hartley Vale Colliery, Adamstown
• Hetton Colliery, Carrington (1885-1915) - Hetton Coal Company
• Lambton Colliery (later known as Old Lambton Colliery), Lambton (1862-1936) - Scottish Australian Mining Company
• Maryville Colliery, Maryville (1884-1888) - The Maryville Colliery Company Limited
• Minmi Colliery 'A' Pit, Minmi (1853-1871) - John Eales - later J & A Brown
• Minmi Colliery 'B' Pit, Minmi (1853-1871) - John Eales - later J & A Brown
• Minmi Colliery 'C' Pit, Minmi (1861-1871) - J & A Brown
• Minmi Open Cut, Minmi (1949-1954) - JABAS
• New Lambton Colliery
• Newcastle Coal Mining Co 'A' Pit, Merewether (1876-1921) - The Newcastle Coal Mining Company Limited
• Newcastle Coal Mining Co 'B' Pit, Glebe (1882-1910) - The Newcastle Coal Mining Company Limited
• Red Head Colliery, Glenrock (1861-?) - Newcastle Coal & Copper Company
• Shortland Colliery, Adamstown
• Stockton Colliery, Stockton (1875-1908) - Stockton Coal Company Limited
• Stockrington No.2 Colliery No.3 Tunnel, Stockrington (1952-198 - JABAS
• Wallsend Colliery 'A' Pit (later known as Elermore Vale Colliery), Wallsend (1859-1867,1890- ) - Newcastle Wallsend Coal Company
• Wallsend Colliery 'B' Pit (1861-1934), Wallsend - Newcastle Wallsend Coal Company
• Wallsend Colliery 'C' Pit (1867-1934), Wallsend - Newcastle Wallsend Coal Company
• Wallsend Tunnel (also known as New Tunnel Colliery -later known as Elermore Tunnel)(1874-1914, 1915-1935), Wallsend - Newcastle Wallsend Coal Company
• Waratah Colliery, Waratah (1862- ) - Waratah Coal Company
• West Burwood Colliery, Glebe (1888-1894, 1930-1937)
• Wickham & Bullock Island Colliery, Carrington (1883-1905) - Wickham & Bullock Island Coal Company

Lake Macquarie

• Ebenezer Colliery 1840 (renamed South Hetton Colliery in 1906), Coal Point, New South Wales.
• Lochend Colliery 1843, Speers Point, New South Wales.
• Crofton Colliery, Charlestown (1942-1957)
• Murray Brothers Coal Mine 1863
• New Wallsend Company Colliery 1873
• South Waratah Colliery(known as Raspberry Gully, Charles Pit & The Gully Pit), Kotara South, New South Wales (1873-1961) - Waratah Coal Company - later Caledonian Collieries Ltd
• Lake Macquarie Coal Co Colliery 1875
• Burwood Colliery No.3 Shaft (later Burwood Colliery), Whitebridge (1889-1982) - Burwood Coal Mining Company Limited- 1893 Scottish Australian Mining Company- 1932 Broken Hill Proprietary Company Limited
• Great Northern Coal Co Colliery 1886 (renamed Northern Colliery in 1890; Pacific Co-operative Colliery in 1893; and Pacific Colliery in 1914)
• Teralba Colliery 1886 (renamed Borehole Colliery in 1906 Stockton Borehole Colliery in 1908)
• Young Wallsend Coal Co Colliery 1887
• South Burwood Colliery (renamed Dudley Colliery in 1891), Dudley (1881-1939) South Burwood Coal Company - 1896 The Dudley Coal Company Limited
• West Wallsend Coal Co. Colliery 1888
• Burwood Extended Colliery (renamed Ocean Colliery in 1903, Burwood Extended 1904 and Redhead Colliery in 1920) (1888-1927) - Burwood Extended Coal Company- Readhead Colliery Company Limited from 1920
• Fernliegh Colliery, Fernleigh (1922-1932) - Mr A Sketchley
• Wallarah Colliery 1888
• Gartlee Mine 1890 (renamed Northern Extended in 1902)
• Monkwearmouth Coal Co. Colliery 1890 (renamed Seaham Colliery in 1891-92)
• Ryhope Colliery, renamed Durham Colliery 1888, renamed Lambton No. 2 Colliery 1898, renamed Lambton B Pit 1898 renamed Lambton Colliery 1932, Readhead (1887-1991 ) - Scottish Australian Mining Company - 1932 Broken Hill Proprietary Company Limited
• West Wallsend Extended 1892
• Seaham No. 2 1905
• Speers Point Gully Mine 1916
• Waratah Tunnel Colliery (Later Wattle Glen Colliery), Charlestown (1875-?,1917-1919) - Waratah Coal Company
• Oldstan Colliery 1919
• Belmont Colliery 1925
• Cardiff Tickhole 1925
• John Darling Colliery, Belmont (1926-1987) - Broken Hill Proprietary Company Limited
• Swansea Colliery, Swansea (1947-1953) - Australian Consolidated Industries
• Awaba State Coal Mine 1948
• Newstan Colliery 1950
• Myuna Colliery 1979
• Wyee Colliery 1962 (renamed Mannering Colliery 2005)
• Munmorah State Coal Mine 1962 (Closed 2005)
• Newvale Colliery 1962 (Closed 1994)
• Newvale No.2 Colliery 1962 (Renamed Endeavour Colliery 1995) (Closed 1999)
• Cooranbong Colliery 1980 (Reserves Exhausted 2004- Now part of Mandalong Mine)
• Westside Mine 1992
• Mandalong Mine 2005

Further reading

• Andrews, Brian Robert (2007). Coal, Railways and Mines - The Story of the Railways and Collieries of J & A Brown. Iron Horse Press. ISBN 978-0-909650-63-6.
• Andrews, Brian Robert (2009). Coal, Railways and Mines: The Collieries of the Newcastle District Vol.1. Iron Horse Press. ISBN 978-0-9805106-8-3.
• Andrews, Brian Robert (2009). Coal, Railways and Mines: The Collieries of the Newcastle District Vol.2. Iron Horse Press. ISBN 978-0-9805106-7-6.
• Tonks, Ed (1985). Beneath Tidal Water - the Story of Newcastle's Harbour Collieries. Headframe Publishing. ISBN 0-9588910-0-1.