Gillheads Mine (Gill Heads Mine), Skyreholme, Pateley Bridge District, North Pennines, North Yorkshire, England, UK

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Ref.: http://www.more.freeserve.co.uk/gillheads.htm; Rocks & Min.: 17:129. Initially a lead mine, later a fluorspar mine. Located near Skyreholme, near Appletreewick, between Grassington and Pateley Bridge. Started perhaps before 1700 and closed about 1900; reopened in the 1920's for fluorspar and became one of the most productive fluorspar mines in Yorkshire. An incline driven by the Greenhaugh Mining Company and then worked by C. R. Swartz (1979 and later) proved substantial reserves of fluorspar on the Gillheads Vein, but the operation closed in the early 1980's.
Grid reference given is the Middle Level of the old lead mine.

UK OS Grid Reference: SE066620
Map Reference: 54°3'13"N , 1°53'57"W

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Mineral List:

Calcite

CaCO

Reference:

[Dunham, Sir K. C. Geology of the North Pennine Orefield, Volume 2 Stainmore to Craven (2nd Edition), pp 91, 103, 228, 233]

Chalcopyrite

CuFeS

Reference:

[Rocks & Min.: 17:129.]

Dolomite

CaMg(CO

)

Reference:

[Dunham, Sir K. C. Geology of the North Pennine Orefield, Volume 2 Stainmore to Craven (2nd Edition), pp 91, 103, 228, 233]

Fluorite

CaF

Reference:

[Dunham, Sir K. C. Geology of the North Pennine Orefield, Volume 2 Stainmore to Craven (2nd Edition), pp 91, 103, 228, 233; http://www.more.freeserve.co.uk/gillheads.htm; Rocks & Min.: 17:129.]

Gillheads Mine (Gill Heads Mine), Skyreholme, Pateley Bridge District, North Pennines, North Yorkshire, England, UK
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