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Wingate Grange Colliery

Lady Pit

Strata sunk through in the Lady Pit, Wingate Grange Colliery

Shaft Details

Closed: 26 Oct 1962

Approximate surface level 400 feet above sea (Ordnance datum)

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Geology encountered   Thickness   Depth
  ft. in.   ft. in.
Outset    5  0     5  0
Soil    1  0     6  0
Blue clay    81  0     87  0
Limestone, with irregular partings of blue and black metal at 6 to feet from the bottom    270  5     357  5
Black metal    1  4     358  9
Yellow clay    0  3     359  0
Soft yellow freestone    1  3     360  3
White post    13  9     374  0
Red metal    26  0     400  0
Red metal    1  0     401  0
Grey metal    25  0     426  0
Blue metal    7  5     433  5
COAL - Three Quarter Coal Seam    4  4     437  9
    COAL    1  4       
    Band    0         
    COAL    1  8       
    Band    0  3       
    COAL    1  0       
Band    1  2     438  11
COAL - Five-Quarter Coal Seam    4  2     443  1
Black metal    1  2     444  3
Grey metal    9  6     453  9
White post    8  1     461  10
Grey metal    3  6     465  4
COAL    1  5     466  9
Grey metal    14  5     481  2
COAL    0  4     481  6
Grey metal    0  10     482  4
Post    35  8     518  0
Grey metal    2  2     520  2
Black metal    3  9     523  11
COAL - Main Coal Seam    5  1     529  0
    COAL    1  4       
    Band    0  4       
    COAL, good    3  1       
    COAL, splint or coarse    0  4       

Source: An Account of the strata of Northumberland & Durham as proved by Borings & Sinkings, Volume U-Z, published by the North of England Institute of Mining & Mechanical Engineers, 1897

  original entry for sinking/boring number 2279 in "An Account of the strata of Northumberland & Durham as proved by Borings & Sinkings, Volume U-Z, published by the North of England Institute of Mining & Mechanical Engineers, 1897"

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