As coal mining becomes history ... In The Man Beneath, Len Doherty's 1957 novel of pit life in northern England, a miners' union leader gives his take on the relationship between the hard life ...

1730s — Coal mining began in Mid-Lothian ... 1923 — Mining operations conclude in Mid-Lothian. 1957 — Fleetwood Garner purchased 640 acres of the Mid-Lothian Mines Co. property.

While the price of coal at the mine $4.85 a ton; has dropped over the past eight years, the average cost per ton to ship it to market rose from $1.47 in 1948 to $3.24 in 1955, and is still going up.

1957. Since the inception of commercial coal mining in 2020, the Centre has auctioned a total of 125 coal mines, with a combined production capacity of 273.06 million tons per annum (MTPA).