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  Billing Shield (Fluorspar)  Index  Billing Shield (Fluorspar)  

Billing Shield (Fluorspar)

also known as Knitters Hill


  Description Disasters Names Local Collieries Credits  

Location: Westgate-in-Weardale
Map Ref:
Maps: 1952 map Lead mines of the Northern Dales
Opened:
Closed: 1920's
Owners: 1920's - Billing Ganister & Mineral Co. Ltd.
Output: 1921 - Fluorspar.
1923 - Fluorspar.
1924 - Fluorspar, Lead Ore.
1925 - Fluorspar, Lead Ore.
1927 - Fluorspar, Lead Ore.
1929 - Fluorspar, Lead Ore.
1930 - Fluorspar, Lead Ore.
Employment: 1921 - 2
1923 - 21 (13 below, 8 surface)
1924 - 42 (25 below, 17 surface)
1925 - 52 (30 below, 22 surface)
1927 - 46 (24 below, 22 surface)
1929 - 16 (4 below, 12 surface)
1930 - 10 (4 below, 6 surface)
    Catalogue of plans of abandoned mines for Billing Shield (Fluorspar)
Notes:

1934, 01 Jul - Abandoned


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Description


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Disasters (5 or more killed)

None found.


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Names of those killed at this colliery

No names found.


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Collieries and Pits within 5 miles (8km)

Unable to generate - no grid reference supplied.


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Credits

Sources:

  • 1921 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department, from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian.
  • 1923 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department, from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian.
  • 1924 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department, from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian.
  • 1925 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department, from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian.
  • 1927 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department, from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian.
  • 1929 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department, from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian.
  • 1930 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department, from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian.

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