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| Long Work, Above Derwent | ||
| Long Work | ||
| site name:- | Newlands Valley | |
| civil parish:- | Above Derwent (formerly Cumberland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | copper mine | |
| locality type:- | mine | |
| coordinates:- | NY228162 | |
| 1Km square:- | NY2216 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY21 | |
| references:- | Adams, John: 1988: Mines of the Lake District Fells: Dalesman Books (Lancaster, Lancashire)::
ISBN 0 85206 931 6 |
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 CBI80.jpg East end. (taken 4.8.2014)  CBI78.jpg From West. (taken 4.8.2014) |
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 CBI79.jpg Middle. (taken 4.8.2014) |
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Earliest workings are elizabethan, about 1565; extended about 1690. Later work is
20th century, abandoned 1922. |
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| Long Work Vein, malachite and copper pyrite. |
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| Adams, John: 1988: Mines of the Lake District Fells: Dalesman Books (Lancaster, Lancashire)::
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