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| Red Gill Mines, Caldbeck | ||
| Red Gill Mines | ||
| Red Gill Mine | ||
| Brae Fell Mine | ||
| Wet Smale Gill Trials | ||
| Dry Smale Gill Trials | ||
| locality:- | Caldbeck Fells | |
| civil parish:- | Caldbeck (formerly Cumberland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | copper mine | |
| locality type:- | lead mine | |
| locality type:- | mine | |
| coordinates:- | NY295348 | |
| coordinates:- | NY298357 | |
| 1Km square:- | NY2934 | |
| 1Km square:- | NY2935 | |
| 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:- | old text:- Postlethwaite 1877 (3rd edn 1913) placename:- Red Gill Mine item:- copper ore; lead ore; galena |
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| 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. goto sourcepage 130:- "HAY GILL AND RED GILL MINES" "Both of these mines have been wrought extensively by the old men, with stope and feather. The former yields copper ore of very good quality, and the latter both lead and copper ores in great variety; indeed, it ranks next to Roughtengill in the variety of ores which it produces." "These mines were wrought by various Companies, and a good deal of lead and copper ores raised from them." |
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| evidence:- | visit log:- KDMRS 1979-82 placename:- Red Gill Mines item:- chalcedonite; linarite |
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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 16:- "DATE - 27/5/79 SUNDAY / MAP REF - (SHEET 23) 2940/3420 / LOCATION - RED GILL CALDBECK / NAME - RED GILL MINES / TYPE OF SITE - MINE / WORKING OR DISUSED - DISUSED / PEOPLE IN PARTY [ ] / NOS. OF PHOTOS - NONE / SPECIMENS FOUND - CALEDONITE? (sic) OR LINARITE? / COMMENTS - ... NO LEVELS OPEN" item:- private collection : 82 Image © see bottom of page |
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Possibly worked in elizabethan times. |
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| The mine is a location of a blue mineral, linarite. |
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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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