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| Haweswater Mine, Bampton | ||
| Haweswater Mine | ||
| locality:- | Bampton Common | |
| civil parish:- | Bampton (formerly Westmorland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | copper mine | |
| locality type:- | mine | |
| coordinates:- | NY49341610 | |
| 1Km square:- | NY4916 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY41 | |
| references:- | Adams, John: 1988: Mines of the Lake District Fells: Dalesman Books (Lancaster, Lancashire)::
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| evidence:- | visit log:- KDMRS 1979-82 placename:- Haweswater Mine placename:- Haweswater Copper Mine item:- copper pyrites; malachite; iron pyrites; barytes; quartz |
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| 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 59:- "DATE - 7/6/80 / MAP REF - 4960/1605 (NY41) / LOCATION - HAWESATER / NAME - HAWESWATER MINE ??? / TYPE OF SITE - MINE / WORKING OR DISUSED - DISUSED / PEOPLE IN PARTY - [ ] / NOS. OF PHOTOS - 35 / SPECIMENS FOUND - COPPER PYRITES, MALACHITE, BARYTES &HAEMATITE. / COMMENTS - THERE ARE TWO LEVELS ENTERING THIS MINE, ONE LOW AND ONE HIGH. BOTH THESE LEVELS ARE WALLED UP, SOME OF THE STONES WERE REMOVED (AND PUT BACK LATER) AND ONE COULD SEE VERY GOOD LEVELS BEYOND, THE HIGHER ONE IN WATER 2'-4' DEEP, APPROX, AND COPPER STAINING CAN BE SEEN IN THE HIGHER LEVEL. NEITHER LEVEL WAS ENTERED AT THIS TIME AS ONLY TWO PEOPLE WERE PRESENT, SO THIS MINE WILL BE INVESTIGATED AT A LATER DATE." Log book page 62:- "DATE - SUNDAY 22/6/80 / MAP REF - NY41 4960/1605 / LOCATION - HAWESWATER / NAME - ?HAWESWATER COPPER MINE? / TYPE OF SITE - MINE/TRIAL / WORKING OR DISUSED - DISUSED / PEOPLE IN PARTY - [ ] / NOS. OF SLIDES - 37 / SPECIMENS FOUND - COPPER PYRITES, MALACHITE, IRON PYRITES &BARYTES / COMMENTS / WARM SHOWERY DAY / LOWER LEVEL IN WATER NO DEEPER THAN THE AVERAGE WELLIES, EXTENSIVE MALACHITE STAINING THROUGHOUT. THIS LOWER LEVEL ENDS IN A SHAFT WHICH IS IN WATER 30' DEEP OR MORE? THE TOP LEVEL IS IN DEEP WATER DEFINATELY (sic) OVER A WELLINGTON DEEP AS WE FOUND OUT (LEAD BOOTS AND ALL THAT). THIS LEVEL IS T SHAPED AND NEITHER GOES VERY FAR, THE RIGHT HAND LEVEL ENDS IN A WATER FALL. MALACHITE STAINS SOME OF THIS LEVEL ALSO." item:- private collection : 82 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | mine drawing:- KDMRS 1979-82 placename:- Haweswater Copper Mine |
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| source data:- | Geological Outing of the Kendal and District Mine Research Society to Haweswater Mine,
Bampton click to enlargeKMR01.jpg "HAWESWATER COPPER MINE TOP LEVEL ... 1981"  click to enlargeKMR02.jpg "HAWESWATER COPPER MINE MIDDLE LEVEL ... 1981" item:- private collection : 82 Image © see bottom of page |
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Near Haweswater dam; group of copper workings. |
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| Adams, John: 1988: Mines of the Lake District Fells: Dalesman Books (Lancaster, Lancashire)::
ISBN 0 85206 931 6 |
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