Alasdair Neill does not have a email address except for the one he uses at
his local library. I did leave him a mobile phone message regarding the
request the first time it appeared. Sorry I can't be of any more help,
although I do live less than 500 metres from him so I could deliver a
message if required.
Kindest regards Chris Kelland
----- Original Message -----
From: "Alasdair Neill" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2005 9:24 AM
Subject: Re: Arkendale & Derwent Mining Co.
> On Mon, 18 Apr 2005 16:18:52 +0100, Mike Gill <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
>>I'm sorry to have to come through the list, but I've lost Alasdair Neill's
>>email address (and someone else might be able to add to my answer).
>>
>>At Exeter, last weekend, Alasdair was asking me about small parcels of
>>copper ore, from the Arkendale and Derwent Mining Co, which appear on
>>ticketing lists.
>>
>>No one appears to have recorded copper output from the Derwent lead mines
>>(near Blanchland in Northumberland), but there are references to 'traces'
> of
>>copper being found there. The company's Yorkshire mines (Arkengarthdale
> and
>>Keld Heads) were unlikely to have copper, but copper ores were worked at
>>Feldom nearby. We have nothing to suggest that the ADMCo. ever worked
>>there.
>>
>>I was interested to hear that Frederick Hall (of the ADMCo.) had gone into
>>Cornwall and caused problems for the Stannary Court system. The following
>>monograph:-
>>
>>Pirt, W.K. & Dodds, J.M. Lead Mines of the Derwent Valley (Sheffield:
>>British Mining No.70, 2002)
>>
>>Gives some contemporary information about Hall and his mercurial
>>character.
>>In particular, I like, "He is almost mad, raving and swearing like a
>>madman
>>and tells them to smash the equipment to pieces in his fits of rage".
>>Nevetheless, he drove many of the most important horse levels in
>>Arkengarthdale and laid open lots of new ground on a scale never before
>>dreamed of.
>>
>>Regards,
>>
>>
>>Mike
>>
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>
> The copper ore figures, sold at the Swansea Ticketings, were I think,
> listed as "Arkindale" in the Memoirs of the Geological Survey vol2 pt2.
> Other sources (West Briton, and mss of Alfred Jenkin at the RIC Truro)
> give
> the title Arkendale and Derwent. Total 1823-1827 46 tons of copper ore. It
> was mostly quite rich, 16-24% Cu.
>
> Havn't got the NMRS memoirs on the Derwent Mines to hand, but the
> Arkengarthdale volume suggsest that the link between Arkengarthdale &
> Derwent did not continue beyond 1821ish is this correct?
>
> Alasdair Neill.
>
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