The phrase "as a colliery" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to something in the context of a coal mine or mining operations.
Example: "The town developed rapidly as a colliery, attracting workers from various regions."
Alternatives: "as a coal mine" or "in the context of mining".
He started work at Black Park Colliery as a pit pony driver at the age of 12. His family were Primitive Methodists, and Meredith himself remained a lifelong teetotaller.
Jamie McGourlay, who works at the AMRC as a representative of Rolls-Royce, one of the companies that funds the centre, points out the expanse of a colliery site that once stretched "as far as the eye can see".
Formal schooling ended when he got his first job aged seven as a messenger boy, but he attended night school while working in a colliery and learned public speaking as an lay preacher.
Lord Prescott has credited 1996 film Brassed Off - about the struggles faced by a colliery brass band after the closure of their pit - as the inspiration for a Labour regeneration programme for coalfield communities.
He first worked as an architect for the Miners Welfare Commissionn from 1947 to 1949, in this position designing pithead baths and a colliery extension at Lofthouse, Yorkshire.
The power station's coal sorting area is used to represent a colliery.
The Jeddo Tunnel, which drained a colliery in the 20th century, emptied into Nescopeck Creek.
There were also plans to use it as a dump for colliery waste in 1978, when Thorne Colliery was upgraded and reopened.
Sixty thousand new trees were planted on the site, a former colliery, as part of a 10-year construction programme which already includes several gardens, exhibition and performance spaces and an organic restaurant.
Tipped waste from the colliery had been used as a coastal defence measure, but as the colliery had closed, waste was no longer being tipped.
