Lady's Rake (Lead Ore)
Account of Strata sunk though in The Lady's Rake Mine, Upper Teesdale
Shaft Details
Closed: Mar 1930
Approximate surface level 1500 feet above sea (Ordnance datum)
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fathoms, feet & inches, or metres
 
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| Geology encountered |
Thickness |
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Depth |
| |
ft. |
in. |
|
ft. |
in. |
| Plate |
11 |
0 |
|
11 |
0 |
| Single Post Limestone |
9 |
0 |
|
20 |
0 |
| Hazle |
5 |
6 |
|
25 |
6 |
| Plate |
25 |
0 |
|
50 |
6 |
| Hard post |
2 |
0 |
|
52 |
6 |
| Plate |
35 |
0 |
|
87 |
6 |
| Tyne Bottom Limestone |
30 |
0 |
|
117 |
6 |
| Plate and grey beds (a) |
18 |
0 |
|
135 |
6 |
| Hazle |
12 |
0 |
|
147 |
6 |
| Plate, with hazle beds |
33 |
0 |
|
180 |
6 |
| Jew Limestone |
27 |
0 |
|
207 |
6 |
| Hazle |
4 |
0 |
|
211 |
6 |
| Plate |
2 |
0 |
|
213 |
6 |
| Limestone |
2 |
0 |
|
215 |
6 |
| Hazle (b) |
3 |
6 |
|
219 |
0 |
| Plate |
3 |
0 |
|
222 |
0 |
| Hazle |
11 |
0 |
|
233 |
0 |
| Limestone |
12 |
0 |
|
245 |
0 |
| Grey beds |
18 |
0 |
|
263 |
0 |
| Hazle |
9 |
0 |
|
272 |
0 |
| Limestone |
21 |
0 |
|
293 |
0 |
| Whetstone (c) |
12 |
0 |
|
305 |
0 |
| (a) Random of Wigram's Level. |
0 |
0 |
|
305 |
0 |
| (b) Random of Shaft Foot. |
0 |
0 |
|
305 |
0 |
| (c) Random of depth reached with sump from shaft drift. |
0 |
0 |
|
305 |
0 |
| NOTES: The Whin Sill is not seen at Lady's Rake, but is approximately 40 fathoms in thickness. |
0 |
0 |
|
305 |
0 |
| A Whin Dyke, about 8 fathoms wide, was cut in the Level, west of the shaft. |
0 |
0 |
|
305 |
0 |
| The Teesdale Fault has an upthrow to the South-west of from 60 to 80 fathoms, exposing the Whin Sill on the South side of the valley. |
0 |
0 |
|
305 |
0 |
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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 2851 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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