The phrase "colliery of" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English
It is commonly used to refer to a coal mine or an area where coal mining takes place. Example: The new environmental regulations have greatly affected the operation of the colliery of this small town, causing layoffs and economic hardship for many families.
There is a slight increase in the number of strikers at Laeken, but the situation in the collieries of the Borinage is in no way modified.
Thousands more came in buses that made on the long trip from the northern regions of Asturias and Leon or the collieries of eastern Aragon and southern Puertollano.
Thirty years on, the so-called black beaches of Durham, once darkened by the spoil from the collieries of Easington, Horden, Hawthorn and Blackhall, look nothing like they did in the final scenes of Get Carter (1971).
This opening pastoral hymn, with its nameless and satisfied members of the Brangwen tribe, is cruelly disrupted only five pages in: "About 1840, a canal was constructed across the meadows of the Marsh Farm, connecting the newly-opened collieries of the Erewash Valley".
Thirteen fresh Coal samples were collected from different collieries of Umaria and Ib-valley coalfield.
Tunnelling was mainly done by professional miners, sent from the collieries of Britain to the Western Front.
The representative high sulfur coal samples (SCF and B) were collected from two different collieries of Bapung coalfield (N 27°13′ 27°23′; E 95°35′ 96°00′), Meghalaya (India) and ground to −0.211 mm sizes for other analyses by suing standard method (ASTM 2010).
Investigation on desulfurization of coal samples from Boragolai and Ledo collieries of Makum coal field, Assam, India using alkali treatment leads to over 70%% removal of inorganic sulfur, and removal of sulfur increased with increase in alkali concentration and treatment time (Mukherjee and Borthakur 2003).
The move to rescue SeaFrance recalls the successful co-operative takeover in Wales of the Tower Colliery, north of Aberdare in 1995, following the closure of the pit by British Coal a year earlier.
