Colliery was sunk in 1909 by Henry Lodge and Co. In 1923 the mine was sold to the Old Silkstone Colliery Co. A drift mine was developed on the site in 1954 and in 1966 Goldthorpe Colliery was combined with Highgate Colliery, the coal processing was done at Goldthorpe. The colliery continued to be worked until 1994 when it was closed and the surface buildings demolished (Hill 2001, 201-4). The mine has left no legibility of the former strip fields.