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Elemore Colliery

George Pit

Strata sunk through in George Pit, Elemore Colliery. 1825

Shaft Details

Shaft diameter: 12' 6", Sunk: 1825, Closed: Feb 1974

Approximate surface level 400 feet above sea (Ordnance datum)

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Geology encountered   Thickness   Depth
  ft. in.   ft. in.
Outset    6  0     6  0
Soil    0  6     6  6
Yellow and blue clay    5  6     12  0
Strong blue clay    43  0     55  0
Black sandy clay, with limestone marle    1  6     56  6
Strong limestone    75  0     131  6
Yellow clay    0  6     132  0
Blue metal    0  9     132  9
*Sand bed. Yellow sandstone, with water, which increased to 1,000 gallons per hour, and which was drawn entirely with tubs by the machine    62  10     195  7
Yellow and grey post    6  6     202  1
Loose blue metal, with ironstone balls and red partings    16  0     218  1
COAL, coarse slaty    2  4     220  5
Brown band    3  9     224  2
COAL    1  9     225  11
Brown band    1  1     227  0
COAL    1  11     228  11
Brown thill    2  6     231  5
Dark thill    5  0     236  5
COAL    0  6     236  11
Brown thill    1  11     238  10
White post    1  0     239  10
Brown metal    22  2     262  0
Black stone    1  11     263  11
Brown thill    3  7     267  6
Brown metal    2  8     270  2
Black metal    8  6     278  8
Post girdles    1  6     280  2
Grey metal, with post girdles    24  0     304  2
Blue metal    4  7     308  9
COAL    1  3     310  0
Black thill    0  4     310  4
Brown thill    3  0     313  4
Blue metal, with post girdles    23  4     336  8
White post    18  0     354  8
Grey metal    0  7     355  3
COAL    1  2     356  5
Black band    0  9     357  2
Grey metal    1  10     359  0
White post    31  2     390  2
Grey metal    9  9     399  11
Black metal    1  11     401  10
Brown thill    2  8     404  7
COAL    6  0     410  7
    COAL    1  6       
    Brown band    0  7       
    COAL    2  10       
    White thill    0         
    COAL    0  9       
Grey metal    6  2     416  9
White post    30  9     447  6
Grey metal    0  11     448  5
White post    7  7     456  0
Grey metal    17  8     473  8
White post    10  0     483  8
Blue metal    5  2     488  10
COAL    0  7     489  5
Grey metal    25  4     514  9
Grey post    1  4     516  1
Grey metal    4  0     520  1
White post    1  5     521  6
Grey metal    2  6     524  0
White post    3  10     527  10
Grey metal    11  8     539  6
White post    18  0     557  6
Grey metal    1  10     559  4
COAL    5  8     565  0
* Sand bed, beneath the Magnesian Limestone; where it has usually been found, heavily surcharged with water to the North and East, as at Murton Colliery (Dalton Winning), &c. To the South, and West, where the Magnesian Limestone is much increased in thick    0  0     565  0

Source: An Account of the strata of Northumberland & Durham as proved by Borings & Sinkings, Volume C-E, published by the North of England Institute of Mining & Mechanical Engineers, 1881

  original entry for sinking/boring number 0772 in "An Account of the strata of Northumberland & Durham as proved by Borings & Sinkings, Volume C-E, published by the North of England Institute of Mining & Mechanical Engineers, 1881"

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