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Saddleback Old Mine, Mungrisdale
Saddleback Old Mine
civil parish:-   Mungrisdale (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   lead mine (none) 
locality type:-   mine
coordinates:-   NY33202859
1Km square:-   NY3328
1Km square:-   NY3427
10Km square:-   NY32


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CDI47.jpg (taken 11.6.2015)  
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CDI49.jpg (taken 11.6.2015)  

evidence:-   old map:- Postlethwaite 1877 (3rd edn 1913) 
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, Map of the Lake District Mining Field, Westmorland, Cumberland, Lancashire, scale about 5 miles to 1 inch, by John Postlethwaite, published by W H Moss and Sons, 13 Lowther Street, Whitehaven, Cumberland, 1877 edn 1913.
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PST2NY32.jpg
"[ ]d Mine"
mine symbol 
item:-  JandMN : 162.2
Image © see bottom of page


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CDI48.jpg (taken 11.6.2015)  
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CDI50.jpg  Spoil heap across the beck.
(taken 11.6.2015)  

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The intention was to find lead, but only orange brown limonite was found, which might have been used as a pigment - this failed.
The term limonite is used to hydrated oxides of iron with poorly crystalline characters whose real identity is not known!

Adams, John: 1988: Mines of the Lake District Fells: Dalesman Books (Lancaster, Lancashire):: ISBN 0 85206 931 6
Deer, W A & Howie, R A &Zusmann, J: 1966: Introduction to the Rock Forming Minerals: Longmans (London)

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