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Killhopehead (Lead Ore)

Day Rise

Account of Strata sunk through in the Day Rise, Killhopehead Mine, East End

Shaft Details

Approximate surface level 1700 feet above sea (Ordnance datum)







































Geology encountered   Thickness   Depth
  ft. in.   ft. in.
Plate    6  0     6  0
Low Slate Sill    29  0     35  0
Plate    20  0     55  0
Hazle    6  0     61  0
Plate    18  0     79  0
Fire-stone    38  0     117  0
Plate    34  0     151  0
Hazle    6  0     157  0
Plate    28  0     185  0
Plate    12  0     197  0
Hazle    4  0     201  0
Plate: PattinsonĘs Drift    24  0     225  0
Little Limestone    8  0     233  0
Hazle    4  0     237  0
Plate    12  0     249  0
Hazle    10  0     259  0
High Coal Sill, drift    9  0     268  0
Hazle    6  0     274  0
Plate    19  0     293  0
Great Limestone : Trent level    60  0     353  0
Tuft    8  0     361  0
Plate    18  0     379  0
Quarry Hazle    34  0     413  0
Grey beds    18  0     431  0
Plate    25  0     456  0
Four Fathoms Limestone    21  0     477  0
Nattrass Gill Hazle    16  0     493  0

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 2962 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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