Grove Rake (Lead Ore)

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Location:	Weardale 11½ miles [18 km] E of Alston
Map Ref:	(Sheet 87, OL31) NY897442, 54° 47' 33" N, 2° 9' 37" W
Maps:	1896 map detailed map from the Ordnance Survey
	1952 map Lead mines of the Northern Dales
Opened:
Closed:	1999
Owners:	1890's - Weardale Lead Mining Co. Ltd.
	1930's - Allenheads Mining Co. Ltd.
	1930's - Billing Ganister & Minerals Co. Ltd.
	1980's - Weardale Mining and Processing Ltd.
Output:	1896 - Lead Ore.
	1902 - Lead Ore, Fluorspar.
	1914 - Lead Ore, Fluorspar.
	1921 - Fluorspar.
	1923 - Fluorspar.
	1924 - Fluorspar.
	1925 - Fluorspar.
	1929 - Fluorspar, Ganister.
	1930 - Fluorspar.
	1934 - Fluorspar, Lead Ore, Limestone.
	1944 - Fluorspar.
	1979 - Fluorspar, Lead Ore.
	1980 - Fluorspar, Lead Ore.
	1983 - Lead Ore, Fluorspar.
	1984 - Lead Ore, Fluorspar.
	Detailed Mineral Statistics for Grove Rake (Lead Ore)
Employment:	1896 - 75 (45 below, 30 surface)
	1902 - 9 (6 below, 3 surface)
	1914 - 0 [Not worked]
	1921 - 2
	1923 - 3
	1924 - 0 [Not worked in 1924]
	1925 - 0 [Not worked since 1923]
	1929 - 15 (10 below, 5 surface)
	1930 - 11 (6 below, 5 surface)
	1934 - 0 [Abandoned]
	1944 - 0 [Discontinued 1941]
	Colliery Management (prior to 1955)
	Catalogue of plans of abandoned mines for Grove Rake (Lead Ore)
Notes:	1872 - Abandoned

Boltsburn is another village which derives its name from a burn or stream running at right angles to Rookhope Burn. Rookhope Burn joins the Wear at Eastgate. The principal employment of the inhabitants of this parish is farming, lead-mining, quarrying, and the railway of the Weardale Coal and Iron Company. The lead mining is carried on by the Weardale Lead Company, who have mines situated at Boltsburn and Groverake in this parish [Rookhope], and others in the parishes of Westgate and Heatherycleuch. The railway of the Weardale Coal and Iron Company runs from Park Head, in the parish of Stanhope, where it joins the North-Eastern line, through Rookhope, to Westgate, and is used for the conveyance of coal, limestone, lead, &c. Coal for the village, smelt-mill, and Westgate; limestone from the quarry of the Weardale Coal and Iron Company to their iron-works, and lead from the mines to the smelt-mill, and thence to the market.

Whellan's 1894 Directory of County Durham

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1882 Mines Inspectors Report (C 3621)
1884 Mines Inspectors Report (C 4429)
1892 Mines Inspectors Report (C 6986), Durham District (No. 4) by Thomas Bell, H.M. Inspector of Mines, from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian
1896 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department, also available online at Peak District Mines Historical Society Ltd
1902 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department, from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian
1914 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department, from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian
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
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
1934 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department, from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian
1944 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department, from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian
1979 Guide to the Coalfields published by the Colliery Guardian
1980 Guide to the Coalfields published by the Colliery Guardian
1983 Guide to the Coalfields published by the Colliery Guardian
1984 Directory of Mines & Quarries published by The British Geological Survey
History, Topography, and Directory of the County Palatine of Durham by Francis Whellan. Second edition published in 1894.

Gardiner, Joseph William, 10 Nov 1884, (accident: 25 Mar 1884), aged 22, Miner, severe injury to back by fall of ground in a stope

Reed, Walton, 12 Aug 1892, 2:30 p.m., 1st hour of shift, aged 24, Miner, while descending a shaft the cage halted, and he thinking it was at the bottom, got out and fell a distance of 12 feet; the cage afterwards came down on to him [More information ...]

Robson, Matthew, 14 Jul 1884, aged 27, Cartman, while delivering timber at the mine a tree fell off waggons and killed him [fatality reported during the year but not classified as a colliery accident]

Roddham, J. J., 03 Nov 1882, aged 17, Lead Washer, crushed by elevator wheels in jigger house

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Research Notes for Grove Rake (Lead Ore)



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