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Coniston United Mine, Skelwith
Coniston United Mine
civil parish:-   Skelwith (formerly Lancashire)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   mine
coordinates:-   NY354019
coordinates:-   NY347021
1Km square:-   NY3501
1Km square:-   NY3402
10Km square:-   NY30
references:-   Adams, John: 1988: Mines of the Lake District Fells: Dalesman Books (Lancaster, Lancashire):: ISBN 0 85206 931 6

evidence:-   perhaps descriptive text:- Otley 1823 (5th edn 1834) 
item:-  geology
source data:-   Guide book, A Concise Description of the English Lakes, the mountains in their vicinity, and the roads by which they may be visited, with remarks on the mineralogy and geology of the district, by Jonathan Otley, published by the author, Keswick, Cumberland now Cumbria, by J Richardson, London, and by Arthur Foster, Kirkby Lonsdale, Cumbria, 1823; published 1823-49, latterly as the Descriptive Guide to the English Lakes.
image OT01P160, button  goto source
Page 160:-  "... some yellow copper ore in Skelwith."

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Near Pull Beck, south of Skelwith Bridge; trials, little mineralisation, being worked about 1853.

Adams, John: 1988: Mines of the Lake District Fells: Dalesman Books (Lancaster, Lancashire):: ISBN 0 85206 931 6

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