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North Blaina Colliery.
It was probably sunk around 1860 by Nantyglo and Blaina Co. Ltd. when it went by the name of "The Rising Sun Pit".
By 1877 Morgan and Williams were the owners.
Later it was owned by Stone Bros.
This Colliery was also known as "Stones Pit" after J. W. Stone who owned it for some years from 1883.
From the Inspector of Mines list 1896 there were 488 men working the Three Quarter, Elled and Big Vein seams. At this time it was also called the "New Sun Pit", which suggests another shaft had been sunk in the intervening years.
In 1908 there were 566 men employed at this colliery and 157 at the North Blaina Slope.
Later it was taken over by J Lancaster and Co. Ltd., and in 1918 there were 612 men employed.
It closed in 1919.