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Burntisland No.4 mine

Former parish and county:
Parish of Burntisland, Fifeshire
Local authority:
Fife
Ownership:
Burntisland Oil Co. Ltd. (1881)
Burntisland Oil Co. Ltd. (1893)
Seams worked:
Dunnet Shale
Opened:
1892
Closed:
Uncertain
Current status of site:
Margins of golf course
Regional overview:
Mines in the Burntisland area

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Vertical shaft

Serving Binnend Oil & Mineral Works

Also known as Whinnyhall No.4. The final extension of the Burntisland shale-field, exploiting the Dunnet Shale beneath the Grangehill Estate.

Mapped by the Ordnance Survey of c.1895, seems to show the mine still in operation.

  • Location & workings at Burntisland No.4 mine

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  • External references

      • Coal Authority Mine Abandonment Catalogue No. S5107, showing workings in unnamed shale and Dunnet Shale from Winnyhall or Burntisland, abandoned 1900.
      • Coal Authority Mine Abandonment Catalogue No. 1524, showing workings in unnamed shale from Winnyhall or Burntisland, abandoned 1883.
      • Coal Authority Mine Abandonment Catalogue No. 3186, showing workings in Dunnet Shale and an unnamed shale from Winnyhall or Burntisland, dated 1894.

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