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glaslyn Joined: 16/02/2012 View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message |
Suggestions for Western Highlands
Posted: 21/02/2012 13:06:07 Reply | Quote I would appreciate any information on mines in this area, particularly around Ft.William/ Glen Coe / Glen Nevis areas. Than you in advance! IP: 68.191.250.29 |
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John Lawson Joined: 09/12/2010 Location: Castle Douglas Dumfries & Galloway View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message |
Suggestions for Western Highlands
Posted: 21/02/2012 20:21:01 Reply | Quote Hi, The obvious place is to use the Coran ferry and go to see the Strontian lead/baryte mines these are extensive and some are accessible. The land owner Black Dan is not too keen to let you underground but there are some places off the beaten track you can enter but be careful! It is a few years since I was underground there but if you can do so it is very interesting. IP: 86.169.55.22 |
rhychydwr Joined: 09/06/2007 Location: Cwmparc, Rhondda, South Wales, UK. View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message |
Suggestions for Western Highlands
Posted: 22/02/2012 11:39:37 Reply | Quote *Strontian Mines: (see also Sunart Mines below) Strontian Lead Mines NGR NM 833 657 Explorer Strontian, Argyllshire Situated at Bellsgrove Lodge 3½ miles north-east of Strontian, Argyllshire. Worked since 1722, these mines were at their height at the time of the Napoleonic Wars, when the smelted lead was used for munitions . Lead was worked to a depth of over 600 feet and, although there are numerous levels, a hillside fissure over 1½ miles long, marks the surface outcrop of the vein. Jeffreys, Alan 2008 Mines in Scotland 44 Landless 58 The area is now being re-worked by Strontian Mines Ltd [1993] Log Entry 31 (040909) http://gateway.snh.gov.uk/portal/page?_pageid=53,910305,53_910314&_dad=portal&_schema=PORTAL&PA_CODE=1501&NEW_WINDOW=false accessed 16.05.07 NGRs from Landranger 40 Strontian Village – NM 815 617 Shafts (dis) 6 at NM 860 665 Gallery (dis) NM 833 655 Shafts (dis) 6 at NM 833 659 Shafts (dis) 3 at NM 824 660 The lead mines at the east end of Loch Sunart, NGR NM 84 61, were operating in 1720’s, soon after Sir Alexander Murray of Stanhope purchased from the estate. Although they were subsequently worked under many proprietors, well into the twentieth century, it is generally thought that they never showed the expected profits. Dye, John et al 2001 The Sunart Oakwoods / A Report on their History and Archaeology. Sunart Oakwoods Research Group. 78 see also: http://www.sat.dundee.ac.uk/~arb/scotland/mines_biblio.html -- Cutting coal in my spare time. IP: 82.71.20.254 |
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glaslyn Joined: 16/02/2012 View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message |
Suggestions for Western Highlands
Posted: 22/02/2012 12:43:07 Reply | Quote Thank you both very much! IP: 68.191.250.29 |
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