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Long Work, Above Derwent
Long Work
site name:-   Newlands Valley
civil parish:-   Above Derwent (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   copper mine
locality type:-   mine
coordinates:-   NY228162
1Km square:-   NY2216
10Km square:-   NY21
references:-   Adams, John: 1988: Mines of the Lake District Fells: Dalesman Books (Lancaster, Lancashire):: ISBN 0 85206 931 6


photograph
CBI80.jpg  East end.
(taken 4.8.2014)  
photograph
CBI78.jpg  From West.
(taken 4.8.2014)  


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CBI79.jpg  Middle.
(taken 4.8.2014)  

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Earliest workings are elizabethan, about 1565; extended about 1690. Later work is 20th century, abandoned 1922.
Long Work Vein, malachite and copper pyrite.

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

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