Crake Scar Colliery
Pioneer Pit
Account of Strata sunk and bored through in the Pioneer Shaft, Crake Scar Colliery, 1893
Shaft Details
Sunk: 1893
Approximate surface level 1090 feet above sea (Ordnance datum)
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| Geology encountered |
Thickness |
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Depth |
| |
ft. |
in. |
|
ft. |
in. |
| Sinking:— |
0 |
0 |
|
0 |
0 |
| Clay and sandstone |
20 |
0 |
|
20 |
0 |
| COAL - Brockwell Seam |
6 |
0 |
|
26 |
0 |
| Fire-clay |
13 |
6 |
|
39 |
6 |
| Sandstone |
12 |
0 |
|
51 |
6 |
| Grey beds |
9 |
0 |
|
60 |
6 |
| Blue shale |
10 |
4 |
|
70 |
10 |
| COAL |
0 |
6 |
|
71 |
4 |
| Fire-clay |
3 |
6 |
|
74 |
10 |
| Hard fire-clay |
13 |
0 |
|
87 |
10 |
| Sandstone |
3 |
0 |
|
90 |
10 |
| COAL |
0 |
10 |
|
91 |
8 |
| COAL |
0 |
2 |
|
|
|
| Ironstone band |
0 |
2 |
|
|
|
| COAL |
0 |
6 |
|
|
|
| Fire-clay |
3 |
0 |
|
94 |
8 |
| Grey beds |
15 |
9 |
|
110 |
5 |
| Sandstone |
2 |
3 |
|
112 |
8 |
| Blue shale |
7 |
4 |
|
120 |
0 |
| COAL |
0 |
2 |
|
120 |
2 |
| Hard grey sandstone |
7 |
6 |
|
127 |
8 |
| Sandstone |
16 |
10 |
|
144 |
6 |
| COAL |
0 |
11 |
|
145 |
5 |
| Blue shale |
8 |
6 |
|
153 |
11 |
| Sandstone |
34 |
6 |
|
188 |
5 |
| Bored further:— |
0 |
0 |
|
188 |
5 |
| Blue shale |
1 |
10 |
|
190 |
3 |
| Sandstone |
17 |
9 |
|
208 |
0 |
| White sandstone |
11 |
0 |
|
219 |
0 |
| Blue shale, mixed with hard white sandstone |
16 |
6 |
|
235 |
6 |
| Black shale |
19 |
0 |
|
254 |
6 |
| Light fire-clay |
2 |
0 |
|
256 |
6 |
| Blue shale |
14 |
0 |
|
270 |
6 |
| Sandstone |
20 |
0 |
|
290 |
6 |
| Blue shale |
1 |
8 |
|
292 |
2 |
| Fire-clay |
7 |
6 |
|
299 |
8 |
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Source: 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
original entry for sinking/boring number 2562 in "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"
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