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| Kirkstone Pass Mine, Patterdale | ||
| Kirkstone Pass Mine | ||
| locality:- | Kirkstone Pass | |
| civil parish:- | Patterdale (formerly Westmorland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | copper mine | |
| locality type:- | mine | |
| coordinates:- | NY403093 | |
| 1Km square:- | NY4009 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY40 | |
| references:- | Adams, John: 1988: Mines of the Lake District Fells: Dalesman Books (Lancaster, Lancashire)::
ISBN 0 85206 931 6 |
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| evidence:- | presumably visit log:- KDMRS 1979-82 placename:- Kirkstone Pass Mine item:- malachite; copper pyrites; epidote; hematite; 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 11:- "DATE - 18/5/79 FRIDAY / MAP REF - 4000/0928 (SHEET NY40) / LOCATION - KIRKSTONE PASS / NAME - UNKNOWN / TYPE OF SITE - MINE &TRIAL + / WORKING OR DISUSED - DISUSED / PEOPLE IN PARTY [ ] / NOS. OF PHOTOS - No.8 / SPECIMENS FOUND - SMALL AMOUNTS OF MALACHITE, COPPER PYRITES, AND EPIDOTE. / COMMENTS - VERY WET AFTERNOON: MINE IS UNDERNEATH WATER FALL, WHILE A SMALL TRIAL IS FURTHER UP ON THE RIGHT. DID NOT ENTER EITHER AS WATER IS DEEP. SEEMS TO BE A SMALL AFFAIR, AND VERY OLD 100YRS+. SPOIL HEAPS VERY SMALL." Log book page 37:- "DATE - 14/10/79 / MAP REF - 4000/0928 (SHEET NY40) / LOCATION - KIRKSTONE PASS / NAME - KIRKSTONE PASS MINE (NAME GIVEN BY US, REAL NAME NOT KNOWN) / TYPE OF SITE - MINE / WORKING OR DISUSED - DISUSED. / PEOPLE IN PARTY [ ] / NOS. OF PHOTOS - No.8 / SPECIMENS FOUND - COPPER PYRITES AND MALACHITE / COMMENTS - AS PAGE 11. ENTERED MINE UNDERNEATH WATER FALL, ONLY A FEW FEET AS WATER DEEPENS, TOO DEEP TO WALK IN WELLINGTONS. PROPOSE TO GO BACK IN A FEW WEEKS WITH BOAT, FROM WHAT WE COULD SEE MINE APPEARS TO BE MORE EXTENSIVE THAN FIRST THOUGHT." Log book page 40:- "DATE - 28/10/79 / MAP REF - / LOCATION - / NAME - KIRKSTONE PASS MINE / TYPE OF SITE - / WORKING OR DISUSED - / PEOPLE IN PARTY [ ] / NOS. OF PHOTOS - 8 / SPECIMENS FOUND - / COMMENTS - AS PAGE 37 + DETAILS BELOW. ENTERED MINE AS BEFORE, ONLY THIS TIME WITH BOAT, WHICH ENABLED US TO TRAVEL THE WHOLE LENGTH OF THE MINE LEVEL, (APPROX 120 FT_). MINE BECOMES DRY AFTER 100 FT, AND ENDS IN ROCK WALL 20FT FURTHER ON [X] NO SIGNS OF MINERALIZATION WERE SEEN ALTHOUGH THE SPOIL HEAP OUTSIDE SHOWS TRACES OF COPPER. ([X] WHICH JUST HAPPENS TO BE WHERE SMALL TRIAL IS ON SURFACE WHICH WAS FULL OF WATER LAST VISIT BUT FOR SOME REASON IS DRY NOW.) [sketch]" otherwise:- "AS PAGE 37" item:- private collection : 82 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | presumably mine drawing:- KDMRS 1979-82 placename:- Kirkstone Pass Mine |
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| source data:- | Geological Outing of the Kendal and District Mine Research Society to Kirkstone Pass
Mine, Patterdale click to enlargeKMR33.jpg "KIRKSTONE PASS MINE/TRIAL" item:- private collection : 82 Image © see bottom of page |
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Trials for copper where the Kirkstone Beck crosses the road. |
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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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