Wolf Cleugh (Lead Ore)

Location:	Weardale 11½ miles [19 km] E of Alston
Map Ref:	(Sheet 87, OL31) NY899431, 54° 47' 0" N, 2° 9' 22" W
Maps:	1952 map Lead mines of the Northern Dales
Opened:
Closed:
Pits:	Shaft details for Wolf Cleugh (Lead Ore)
Owners:	1900's - Weardale Lead Co. Ltd.
Output:	1902 - Lead Ore.
	1914 - Lead Ore, Fluorspar.
	1921 - Fluorspar.
	1923 - Fluorspar.
	1924 - Fluorspar.
	1925 - Fluorspar.
	1950 - Lead Ore, Fluorspar.
	Detailed Mineral Statistics for Wolf Cleugh (Lead Ore)
Employment:	1902 - 23 (11 below, 12 surface)
	1914 - 0 [Not worked]
	1921 - 0 [Not worked]
	1923 - 0 [Not worked since 1918]
	1924 - 0 [Not worked since 1918]
	1925 - 0 [Not worked since 1918]
	Catalogue of plans of abandoned mines for Wolf Cleugh (Lead Ore)

Description

None found.

Please note that this collection of names is by no means complete!

						Foster, Thomas, 18 Nov 1904, aged 28, Miner, fall of stone from the side; the stone should have been taken down

						1 name found

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a simulated map showing the immediate vicinity of Wolf Cleugh (Lead Ore)

list of collieries/pits etc. near to Wolf Cleugh (Lead Ore)

1902 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department, from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian
1904 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 2506)
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
1950 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department, from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian
An Account of the strata of Northumberland & Durham as proved by Borings & Sinkings, Supplement, published by the North of England Institute of Mining & Mechanical Engineers, 1910

Research Notes for Wolf Cleugh (Lead Ore)



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