Mining in the Lake Counties
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- Author(s) Shaw, William T
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1975
- Pages 3rd ed; 128pp; illus
- Publisher Dalesman
- Place Published Clapham
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- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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First published 1970. Provides an account of copper, iron ore, lead, barytes, zinc, etc, extraction in Cumbria with chapters: 'the mining story'; 'Lives of the miners'; 'Methods used in the mines'; 'Lakeland dressing plants';'The Caldbeck Fells' largely proving accounts of 15 individual mines, notably Driggith; 'Helvellyn mining field' - 6 mines but mostly Greenside; 'Keswick mining field' - 6 mines; 'Coniston mining field' - largely brief accounts of 11 mines; 'Terms used in mining'