| Gladsmuir Colliery | Glasgow University Archive Services | Records of Gladsmuir Colliery. This small collection consists of a colliery account book. |
| Glencairn Coal Co Ltd | Glasgow University Archive Services | Records of Glencairn Coal Co Ltd. |
| Halbeath Colliery and Saltworks | Glasgow University Archive Services | Records of Halbeath Colliery and Saltworks. This small collection includes minute, letter and account books, letterbook, bill book, correspondence, and legal and financial records. |
| Harry W Lewin, fl. 1859-1889, civil and mining engineer, Coatbridge | North Lanarkshire Council Museums & Heritage | This archive contains copies of reports and surveys of various mineral fields, coal pits, quarries, damaged ground or civil engineering projects collected together chronologically in three bound volum |
| Hay of Belton (GD73) | The National Archives of Scotland | Records regarding coal mining at Belton Colliery. Includes letter from Lady David Hay to her son John regarding progress of coal mining at Belton (1728). |
| Henderson Family of Fordell | The National Archives of Scotland | Various coal related papers including Fordell Colliery papers |
| Houston of Johnstone family | Glasgow City Archives | Deeds, estate and family papers including sasines, tacks, articles of roup, and legal and business papers (including references to the Glasgow, Paisley and Ardrossan Canal), documents relating to Linw |
| John Russell, 1842-1898, partner in mining company J & J Russell, Airdrie | North Lanarkshire Council Museums & Heritage | This archive includes boreholes data, J & J Russell copy correspondence, Russell family genealogy, general historical research notes and John Russell Jnr.'s reminiscences of his early years in mining |
| John Y Robertson & Co, solicitors, Hamilton | Glasgow City Archives | Records relating to the firm’s business and from clients, including non-coal mining related chartularies, sederunt books of executries and other trusts, titles to properties in Lanarkshire, Glasgow |
| Journal of strata near Ecclefechan, Dumfries, 1831 | Edinburgh University Library Centre for Research Collections | 'Journal of the strata penetrated through in the course of a Trial by Thomas Robson, miner, for the purpose of discovering a workable stratum of Coal on the Estate of Lt. Gen. |
