Milldam Mine


Lead, Barytes, and Fluorite Mine
Worked from 1985 to 2023

Jan 1st, 2024 from Unknown by Buddle-Bot

Dec 14th, 2025 by ilt


Peak District
Great Hucklow
53.29916, -1.73713
SK 1762 7806
Private Land
330m
#3,417

Main entrance and emergency egress shaft now sealed by landowner.

Originally worked for lead, closed in 1885. Reopened by Laporte in 1985 for barytes and fluorite. A new entrance was opened in 1991 with material processed at Cavendish Mill. Laporte closed the mine in 1999 and it remained on care and maintenance until 2012 when British Fluorspar restarted production. British Fluorspar were taken over by Fluorsid SpA in 2018.
Fluorsid British Fluorspar (FBFL) shut their operation in 2023 after a number of significant collapses seriously affected their profits. Their official line was that a plan to apply for changed extraction permissions would be submitted and work re-start. As at 2025 there is no sign of a revised application having been put forward to the local council or PDNPA.

None. Currently sealed by the landowner as a reult of damage done to his property by ‘explorers’.

Publications (24)

  • (2013); Milldam Mine - Archaeological Survey ; 53 pages
  • (2014); Future Minerals Scenarios for the UK; 38 pages
  • Barnatt, John (2012); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 18-4 Win - Silence Mine, Grindlow; 55 pages (1-55)
  • Barnatt, John and Huston, Kieron and Mallon, Dave and Newman, Rebekah et al (2013); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 18-6 Win - The Lead Legacy - An Updated Inventory of Important Metal and Gangue Mining Sites in the Peak District, The; 112 pages (1-112)
  • Barnatt, John and Worthington, Terry (2009); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 17-3 Sum - Metal Mines through Time; 124 pages (1-124)
  • Bramley, J.V. (1991); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 11-3 Sum - Fluorspar Mining in Derbyshire; 6 pages (153-158)
  • Brown, Ivor J. (1969); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 04-1 - Mine Fatalities in the Derbyshire Metalliferous Mining Area, 1874 to 1939; 8 pages (59-66)
  • Burt, Roger and Atkinson, Michael (1976); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 06-3 Apr - Mineral Statistics, The; 4 pages (164-167)
  • Critchley, Martin F. (1977); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 06-5 May - Survey of Little Milldam Mine, Great Hucklow, A; 9 pages (191-199)
  • Doug Nash; Doug Nash Peak Book Book 4 - Merlin Mine to Peak United Mine; 343 pages
  • Ford, Trevor D. (2010); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 17-5 Sum - Geological Setting of the Lead Mines in the Northern Part of the White Peak, The; 48 pages (1-48)
  • Ford, Trevor D. (2012); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 18-3 Sum - Geology of Hucklow, Eyam, Stony Middleton & Longstone Edge; 22 pages (1-22)
  • Ford, Trevor D. and Sarjeant, William A.S. and Smith, Michael E. (1993); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 12-1 - Minerals of the Peak District of Derbyshire, The; 40 pages (16-55)
  • Hucklow Edge Vein; 1 pages
  • Hunter, John & Shaw, Richard (2011); Cressbrook Dale Lava & Litton Tuff; 14 pages
  • James, Jonathan Peter and Foster, Adrian (2001); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 14-5 Sum - Tramways and Locomotves at 20th Century Mines in the Peak District; 18 pages (58-75)
  • Kirkham, Nellie (1967); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 03-3 May - Ball Eye Mine and Sough, Cromford; 10 pages (165-174)
  • Kirkham, Nellie (1967); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 03-4 - Oakenedge, Streaks, and Watergrove Soughs; 22 pages (197-218)
  • Milldam Lead Mine; 1 pages
  • Rieuwerts, J.H. (1984); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 09-2 Win - Derbyshire Lead Mining and Early Geological Concepts; 50 pages (51-100)
  • Rieuwerts, James H. (1966); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 03-1 Aug - List of Soughs of the Derbyshire Lead Mines; 42 pages (1-42)
  • Willies, Lynn (1982); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 08-3 Sum - John Fairburn - Stationer and Mining Entrepreneur; 7 pages (159-165)
  • Willies, Lynn (1986); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 09-5 Sum - Prosperity and Decline in Derbyshire Lead Mining; 32 pages (251-282)
  • Willies, Lynn (1988); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 10-3 - Working of the Derbyshire Lead Mining Customs in the 18th and 19th Centuries, The; 14 pages (146-159)

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