UK Grid Reference: NY955464
Latitude: 54°48'44"N
Longitude: 2°4'12"W
Ref: Dunham, K. C., 1990, Geology of the Northern Pennine Orefield Vol I - Tyne to Stainmore 2nd Ed. British Geological Survey, London, pp 221, 224 - 226.
19th century mine working the same group of veins (White, Hunstanworth Red, Shield's or Company's and Ferneygill) as the more modern mine at Whiteheaps. Two shafts, Ellen's and Ruth's, were sunk 2625ft (800m) ESE of the Whiteheaps shafts and the White Vein was stoped for lead at the Grit Sills and Firestone horizons, but lead values were too poor for extraction to continue deeper than this.
The shafts had fallen into disrepair by the time that the British Steel Corporation took ownership of the sett in the 1960's, but the buildings, which housed the Cornish pumps, remain. In late 2006, these buildings became listed monuments.
The mineralisation evident on the sparse dumps is very siliceous but there is a little pale purple massive fluorite to be seen.
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