>From: "S M Linsley" <[log in to unmask]>
>To: "Peter Claughton" <[log in to unmask]>
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>Mike Shaw wrote:
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>>Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 12:54:54 -0000
>>From: Michael Shaw <[log in to unmask]>
>>Subject: Re: watercolour pigments
>
>>J B Richardson's book 'Metal Mining' states that a watercolour
>>pigment=20 is made (or was then) from witherite, can any one tell me
>>what this=20 pigment was and if it is still produced. all the best.
>
>
>Just in case anyone wishes to know even more about Witherite, they
>should try to get hold of a copy of:
>
>Anon, 'Witherite (Natural Barium Carbonate) and its Industrial Uses',
>(Newcastle upon Tyne, 1940).
>
>This booklet was jointly published by 'The Holmside & South Moor
>Collieries Ltd.', (at least three Durham coal mines also produced
>witherite), and 'The Owners of Settlingstones Mines Ltd.'
>
>I was able to make a couple of visits to the Settlingstones mine, (NY
>845 682 to NY 852 687) before it closed in 1969. For many years it had
>claimed to be the only witherite mine in the world. A short but useful
>article on the mine can be found in:
>
>Anon, 'Settlingstones Witherite Mine', Mining & Minerals Engineering
>(November 1968) 35-39.
>
>Stafford
>
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