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 |
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Depth |
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ft. |
in. |
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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 |
1½ |
|
|
|
| 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 |
|
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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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