Extensive workings on Smittergill Hill Sun Vein/Rotherhope Fell Vein/Rotherhope Cleugh Sun Vein/Crag Green North Vein/Dowpot Sike Vein. Underground working for lead ceased in 1948, but since then much dump material has been carted away to be processed for fluorspar.
Grid ref given is for Blackburn Level.
There are some excellent specimens of fluorite in collections from this mine, most of which came from flats in the Tyne Bottom Limestone that are below the horizon of the Blackburn Level and now flooded.
There is an surperb suite of Rotherhope Fell specimens, mostly collected in the 1930s, in the Russell collection, at the Natural History Museum, London.
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UK OS Grid Reference: NY700427
Map Reference: 54°46'41"N , 2°27'59"W
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