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What is a colliery?

What is a colliery? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (Britain) An underground coal mine, together with its surface buildings.
  2. (US) A facility that supplies coal.
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He worked as a surfaceman at a colliery near Barnsley and supplemented his income by writing verse.
Last month the Doncaster-based firm said up to 40 miners at the colliery would have to lose their jobs in order for the pit to stay afloat.
He was a pit deputy at Redbrook colliery on the outskirts of Barnsley, in a different union.
The colliery village's principle attractions are the driftwood mine, where the visitor is taken to the coalface, and the school.
At its peak in 1911, the colliery employed 2,700 mineworkers, though only 250 of these were indigenous to Warsop Vale.
After the suspicious death of a miner at a disused colliery in Wales, the Doctor investigates the owner, Global Chemicals.

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