A small pit like the Racecourse Colliery would usually start up in the following way: a few men would get together and rent the mineral rights from whoever owned them; in this area that was usually the Earl of Dudley.
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Alternatively, the Earl of Dudley could mine the coal himself and appoint an agent or a manager to run his pit for him.
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