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| Ruthwaite Baryte Mine, Ireby | ||
| Ruthwaite Baryte Mine | ||
| locality:- | Ruthwaite | |
| civil parish:- | Ireby (formerly Cumberland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | barytes mine | |
| locality type:- | mine | |
| coordinates:- | NY238369 | |
| 1Km square:- | NY2336 | |
| 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) item:- barytes; barium ore |
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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 140:- "On the margin of the Carboniferous Limestone, at Ruthwaite, near Ireby, Cumberland, a very fine deposit of sulphate of barytes, of excellent quality, and measuring in some places from eight to nine feet in width, was opened up about twenty-five years ago; but being at the bottom of the valley, and requiring a good capital for the necessary sinking operations, it has not yet been fully developed." |
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North of Ruthwaite. Dates from the 1870s; worked out by 1920. |
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| Ruthwaite Baryte 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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