Account of the Mining Districts of Alston Moor, Weardale and Teesdale in Cumberland and Durham ...

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Author(s) Sopwith, Thomas
Publication type Monograph
Year published 1833
Pages 183pp; illus
Publisher W Davison
Place Published Alnwick

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Country England
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Reprinted in facsimile 1984. Largely about geology and mineralogy and the landscape but with a chapter on lead mines [pp116-42] re methods of work, ventilation, crushing machinery, etc, and including a description of a visit as a tourist to an anonymous mine