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Copper Plate Mines, Borrowdale
Copper Plate Mines
site name:-   High Close
civil parish:-   Borrowdale (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   copper mine
locality type:-   mine
coordinates:-   NY246178
1Km square:-   NY2417
10Km square:-   NY21
references:-   Adams, John: 1988: Mines of the Lake District Fells: Dalesman Books (Lancaster, Lancashire):: ISBN 0 85206 931 6
evidence:-   old text:- Postlethwaite 1877 (3rd edn 1913) 
placename:-  Copper Plate Mine
item:-  tools, mining; copper ore
source data:-   Book, Mines and Mining in the English Lake District, by John Postlethwaite, Keswick, published by W H Moss and Sons, Whitehaven, Cumberland now Cumbria, 1877; published 1877-1913.
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page 108:-  "... AND COPPER PLATE MINES."
"The Copper Plate Vein has been wrought extensively up the side of the mountain, at its base, and for some little distance across the valley. This mine was opened and named by the Germans under Hechstetter, in 1566; and judging from the extent of their excavations, a considerable quantity of ore must have been raised. In digging for the foundation of a house near"
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page 109:-  "this mine, in 1871, a number of antiquated tools were found, which had no doubt belonged to the German miners."
"This mine was also wrought about sixty years ago, and some ore was raised."
evidence:-   old map:- Postlethwaite 1877 (3rd edn 1913) 
placename:-  Copper Plate Mine
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, Map of the Lake District Mining Field, Westmorland, Cumberland, Lancashire, scale about 5 miles to 1 inch, by John Postlethwaite, published by W H Moss and Sons, 13 Lowther Street, Whitehaven, Cumberland, 1877 edn 1913.
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"Copper Plate Mine"
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item:-  JandMN : 162.2
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evidence:-   visit log:- KDMRS 1979-82
placename:-  Copper Plate Mine
item:-  copper pyrites
source data:-   Notes, log book of Geological Outings, mine plans, etc, Kendal and District Mine Research Society, Kendal area, Cumbria, etc, visits made 1979-82.
Geological Outing of the Kendal and District Mine Research Society 
Log book page 52:-  "DATE - 27/4/80 / MAP REF - 2475/1790 (NY21 1:25000) / LOCATION - MANESTY / NAME - COPPER PLATE MINE / TYPE OF SITE - MINE. / WORKING OR DISUSED - DISUSED. / PEOPLE IN PARTY [ ] / NOS. OF PHOTOS - 30 / SPECIMENS FOUND - PIECES OF COPPER PYRITES / COMMENTS - WARM DAY. THREE SMALL LEVELS ENTERABLE, ONE WITH DEEP WATER, BUT PASSABLE, ALL THREE ARE ONLY SHORT LEVELS BUT INTERESTING. SPOIL HEAPS VERY SMALL."
item:-  private collection : 82
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evidence:-   mine drawing:- KDMRS 1979-82
placename:-  Copper Plate Mine
source data:-   Geological Outing of the Kendal and District Mine Research Society to Copper Plate Mines, Borrowdale
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"COPPER PLATE MINE LEVEL No 1"
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"COPPER PLATE MINE LEVEL No 2"
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"COPPER PLATE MINE LEVEL No 3"
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"COPPER PLATE MINE LEVEL No 4"
item:-  private collection : 82
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 First worked in 1566 by the Company of Mines Royal? and again in the 1800s.
Copper Plate Vein.

Adams, John: 1988: Mines of the Lake District Fells: Dalesman Books (Lancaster, Lancashire):: ISBN 0 85206 931 6
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