Mike - nearer home just above the bridge at Old Gang is a tailings dam. It
was built or rebuilt to deal with reworking of heaps for barytes.
Regards
Richard
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Gill" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, January 15, 2011 3:08 PM
Subject: Buddle Dams
> While reviewing the latest volume of Jim Rieuwerts series on Derbyshire
> Mining recently I was struck by a photograph of a landscape dominated by
> buddle dams.These features are described as mainly mid C19th earth dams
> into which the sludge etc from buddling was placed.
>
> I cannot remember seeing a non-Derbyshire example, can anyone on the list
> provide one please.
>
> Mike Gill
|