At 14:18 26/03/04 EST, Bernard Moore wrote:
>Does anyone have any idea where a mine called South Bog Head could be please?
This appears to be something of a mystery mine. As list members have
pointed out, there are plenty of 'Bog' mine names in Shropshire and Wales,
and a possible 'Bog Head' in Scotland.
Which is as much as I'd written when Iain Wright posted the following -
>This is more than likely a mine prospect in the Bathgate area of Scotland.
>Boghead coal, which includes torbanite and oil-shale coals, is an unbedded
>coal of mainly algal and fungal origin which can be decomposed under heat to
>give oil, paraffin, waxes, etc.
And I'm sure Iain has the answer. There appear to be links between the
French oil shale industry and that in Scotland. The important French
deposits at Autun (Saone et Loire), worked from at least the 1860s, used
retorts comparable with that used in the Scottish shale field at
Pumpherston (French Shale Oil Industry, Combined Intelligence Objectives
Sub-Committee Report 30/XV-2, London, 31 December 1944).
Peter
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