Tanya,
It's doubtful that this process would work in a lead mine. Lead is
notoriously insoluble in that sort of environment and lead minerals
simply wouldn't go in and out of solution quickly or frequently enough
for that kind of process to occur.
Cheers
Ian
On 27/07/2013 11:57 AM, Tanya wrote:
> Could it be for the purpose of crystallisation, as described in Stendahl's
> Love;
>
>
> "At the salt mines of Salzburg, they throw a leafless wintry bough into one
> of the abandoned workings. Two or three months later they haul it out
> covered with a shining deposit of crystals. The smallest twig, no bigger
> than a tom-tit's claw, is studded with a galaxy of scintillating diamonds.
> The original branch is no longer recognizable."
>
>
> http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/11/29/stendhal-on-love-crystalli
> zation/
>
> Could this happen in a lead mine?
>
> Tanya
>
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: mining-history [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
>> Roy Wares
>> Sent: 26 July 2013 05:51
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: Re: Twigs
>>
>> I do not have access to information sources that many readers of this list
>> have. But my suggestion that these were rowan twigs used as a superstition
>> may have some basis in fact.
>>
>> For example, in the Peakland Heritage web site, there is a notation to the
>> effect that
>>
>> Quote- "In pagan times the rowan, or mountain ash, was thought to have
>> strong magical properties. This belief continued for centuries. Peakland
>> farmers' wives hung rowan in the dairy to help their butter to churn and
>> lead miners planted it around the mine to improve their chances of finding
>> lead ore. In the late 18th century 'bits of wicken', meaning rowan twigs,
>> were put on a steam pumping engine at Calver Sough because miners believed
>> that witchcraft had caused it to break down"- end quote
>>
>> Roy Wares, FEC, P.Eng.
>> Vancouver, Canada
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: mining-history [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
>> Helen
>> Sent: July-24-13 6:12 PM
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: Re: Twigs
>>
>> I saw those too.. I wondered if they had been used as an improvised
>> sweeping
>> brush although I could see no sign of anything that might have bound them
>> together
>>
>> From what I've seen turf seems to be the usual choice for the 'stoprice'
>> function locally.
>>
>> On 24/07/2013 17:59, Ian Spensley wrote:
>>> The only other offering that I can add is that they may have been part
>> of
>> a batch used as 'stoprice' to plug a hole in timbering to stop loose
>> material falling through.
>>>
>>> Ian Spensley
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Peter Jackson <[log in to unmask]>
>>> To: mining-history <[log in to unmask]>
>>> Sent: Wed, 24 Jul 2013 16:06
>>> Subject: Twigs
>>>
>>>
>>> A recent exploration of mine workings at Nenthead, Cumbria, UK, has
>>> revealed two sites where a handful of twigs are laid on the floor of the
>> mine working.
>>> The length of twigs is approximately 200mm and the quantity is approx.
>>> one handful.
>>>
>>> The material appears to be heather - this is unconfirmed because the
>>> twigs appear to be too fragile to move.
>>>
>>> The mine is a lead mine, workings in the Great limestone within the High
>> Flat.
>>> Present conditions are dry and dusty. No evidence of firesetting. Mine
>>> workings may date from a period between 1800 and 1830
>>>
>>> Your views about why the twigs are in the mine, would be most welcome.
>>>
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