In a trading update for the year ended 31 December 2022, Hwange Colliery Company Limited administrator Mr Munashe Shava said they have also engaged new mining contractors to open three new opencast pits.

Source: https://www.thezimbabwemail.com/business/hwange-colliery-to-increase-underground-coal-production/

Many others also lament the loss of the close community Aylesham was when Snowdown Colliery was operational, and even in the initial years after it shut down in 1987.

Source: https://www.kentonline.co.uk/dover/news/there-are-so-many-new-builds-its-become-a-village-of-str-285630/

Mr Knight grew up in Wallsend and remembered the booming mining industry that honeycombed the ground beneath the suburb from the Gretley Colliery to the surrounding suburbs.

Source: https://www.newcastleherald.com.au/story/8137598/second-sinkhole-opens-at-wallsend-residents-cannot-return-home/?src=rss

Pictured are miners entering Silverdale Colliery at the height of its power.

Source: https://www.stokesentinel.co.uk/news/history/gallery/25-years-devastating-closure-silverdale-8999348

"The long frontage to Colliery Way, plus direct access from the roundabout, presents an ideal roadside, leisure and retail opportunity," the brochure reads.

Source: https://www.nottinghampost.com/news/local-news/major-supermarket-fast-food-chain-8737279

There is also the Zip World Tower at the former Tower Colliery coal mining site near Aberdare, South Wales.

Source: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11986489/Homeowner-told-sell-house-locals-wins-appeal-proving-afford-it.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490