Examples from literature

• His father was a very humble workman, who filled the position of fireman of the pumping-engine in use at the colliery, at three dollars a week. 
• Lord Ashley's Bill was passed, prohibiting woman and child labour in mines and collieries. 
• The colliery may close, but still the corn ripens, and extra wages are paid to the harvest men. 
• The work put into the cellars of the colliery houses here was quite extraordinary. 
• Two collieries, among the fields, waved their small white plumes of steam.