This disused ironstone quarry, designated as a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI), features the Slitt Vein, which has been preserved as an upstanding central ridge. Within this ridge, the innermost galena deposits were worked by the miners of old.
1950 J. & A. Bainbridge
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Publications (4)
- BGS - Mine Plans (large, zoomable) - Red & Slitt Veins West Section; 1 pages
- Dunham K. (1952); BGS - Mineral Resources of GB (c1920s) Vol IV - Fluorspar; 162 pages
- Fairbairn, R.A.; NMRS (1996); British Mining 56 - Weardale Mines, The; ISBN 0901450 46 4; pp.43,93,142.
- NMRS; Newsletter Aug/1996; pp.3.
