Hello Thomas, hello List
how about the Blue John fluorite mine - it still worked for ornamental
fluorite ?
Some years ago I heard so
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Thomas Krassmann (The man engine man)
Thomas Imgrund schrieb:
> Hallo,
> I asked for working mines some weeks ago.
> The following list shows the result. Perhaps someone knows more.
>
> Slate
> Honister Lake District, Cumbria
> Aberllefenni Corris, North Wales drift
> Maenofferen (care and maintenance) Blaenau Ffestiniog, North Wales
>
> Fluorspar
> Milldam Mine (care and maintenance) Great Hucklow, Derbyshire
>
> Barytes
> Foss north of Aberfeldy, Perth and Kinross (Scotland)
> Silverband Great Dun Fell, Cumbria
>
> Gypsum
> Longriggs Kirkby Thore, Cumbria
> Newbiggin Temple Sowerby, Penrith, Cumbria
> Fauld Burton-upon-Trent, Staffordshire
> Barrow Leicestershire
> Brightling Robertsbridge, East Sussex
> East Leake Nottinghamshire
>
> Limestone
> Middleton Middleton, Wirksworth, Derbyshire
> Monks Park Monks Lane, Corsham, Wiltshire
> Stoke Hill (Hayes Wood) Bath
> Teffont/Chilmark Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire
> Westwood Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire
>
> Clay
> Shibden No.1 Halifax, Yorkshire
> Norden Norden, Dorset
>
> Silica sands
> Loch Aline Morvern, Argyll, near Oban, Scotland
>
> Ochre
> Clearwell Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire
> Wigpool Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire
> Winford South Gloucestershire
>
> Honestones
> Quilkiestone Stair, South Ayrshire (Scotland)
> Sundrum Stair, South Ayrshire (Scotland)
>
> Thomas
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