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Colley Hill Hearthstone Mine (United Kingdom)
Hearthstone mine worked from ca. 1900 to 1961. Worked in the Upper Greensand beds of the Upper Cretaceous. Stone was extracted in lumps up to 12 inches across, and either crushed to powder, cut to smaller sizes, or remoulded into artificial blocks. Hearthstone was sold as a domestic agent for whitening stone hearths, doorsteps and sills. Hearthstone is an unusual rock which technically is not a true sandstone. The last mine to close in Surrey. For more info: "Surrey's Ancient Stone Mines" by Peter Burgess
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