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A new lead mine in the northern Pennines
Author(s) -
YOUNG BRIAN,
FORBES IAN
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
geology today
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.188
H-Index - 17
eISSN - 1365-2451
pISSN - 0266-6979
DOI - 10.1046/j.1365-2451.1997.t01-1-00013.x
Subject(s) - mining engineering , geology , disappointment , lead (geology) , archaeology , paleontology , geography , psychology , social psychology
Plans by Durham County Council, owners of the Killhope Lead Mining Centre in Weardale, to open parts of the oroginal underground workings of Park Level Mine to visitors were frustrated when exploration of the mine revealed the seriously collapsed state of the workings. This disappointment has now been turned to advantage by the building of a new, ‘artificial’, specially constructed mine on the site, planned to be geologically consistent with the original mine. The new mine was recently officially opened by Tony Blair MP.