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| Longlands Copper Mine, Ireby | ||
| Longlands Copper Mine | ||
| site name:- | Longland Fells | |
| civil parish:- | Ireby (formerly Cumberland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | copper mine | |
| locality type:- | mine | |
| coordinates:- | NY272356 | |
| coordinates:- | NY271352 | |
| coordinates:- | NY273351 | |
| 1Km square:- | NY2735 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY23 | |
| references:- | Adams, John: 1988: Mines of the Lake District Fells: Dalesman Books (Lancaster, Lancashire)::
ISBN 0 85206 931 6 |
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| evidence:- | visit log:- KDMRS 1979-82 placename:- Longlands Fell Mines item:- copper pyrites; malachite; azurite; hematite; blende; 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 21:- "DATE - 24/6/79 SUNDAY / MAP REF - (2720/3520) (2730/3510) / LOCATION - LONGLANDS FELL / NAME - LONGLANDS FELL MINES / TYPE OF SITE - MINES / WORKING OR DISUSED - DISUSED / PEOPLE IN PARTY [ ] / NOS. OF PHOTOS - No13 (HIGHER MINE) No.14 (LOWER MINE) / SPECIMENS FOUND - COPPER PYRITES, MALACHITE, ALSO SOME MALACHITE CRYSTALS AND AZURITE CRYSTALS. SMALL PIECES OF HEMATITE, LARGE PIECES OF BLENDE, MOSTLY IN SUGAR TYPE QUARTZ. / COMMENTS - LOWER MINE HAS SMALL SPOIL HEAP VERY LITTLE MINERALS TO BE FOUND. LEVEL INTO THIS MINE HAS STEEL (LOCKED) DOOR AT ENTRANCE. HIGHER MINE IS VERY WELL MINERALISED, MOST OF THE SPECIMENS FOUND WERE FROM THIS MINE, VERY WORTHWHILE VISIT." item:- private collection : 82 Image © see bottom of page |
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West flank of Longlands Fell, trials begun 1841; abandoned 1857. |
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| Longlands Copper Vein. |
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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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