Potts Gill Copper Mine

The site appears to also be known as Old Potts Gill Mine or the Potts Gill Baryte Mine.

The site is described as primarily consisting of crates and spoil heaps, with a few holes and collapses showing workings underneath, which are described as being dangerous.

The mine appears to have been worked between 1867-1871 or 1874. It was then later worked for baryte during World War II.

Buddlepit does have a list of historical owners of the site, which might give some idea of when it was potentially worked.

Mindat lists 69 minerals from the site, but many of them are citations from works by Arthur Kingsbury, a collector whose reports on mineral locales are widely regarded to be unlikely or dubious.

Further reading

• https://www.mindat.org/loc-1441.html
• https://www.lakesguides.co.uk/html/lgaz/lk02032.htm
• https://www.buddlepit.co.uk/mine-explorer/Database/MineDetails.html?id=RSCH173kXlufiw8hGNqSUw==

If you are interested in other minerals from nearby locales, we may have stock from the following locations.

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• Carrock Mine, Caldbeck Falls, Cumbria
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• Kinniside Mine, Copeland, Cumbria
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• Mowbray mine, Frizington, Cumbria
• Old Brandlehow Mine, Keswich, Cumbria
• Old Sandbed Mine, Caldbeck, Allerdale, Cumbria
• Potts Gill Copper Mine, Potts Gill, Caldbeck, Allerdale, Cumbria
• Red Gill Mine, Roughton Gill, Caldbeck, Allerdale, Cumbria
• Roughton Gill Mine, Caldbeck Falls, Cumbria
• Shap Pink Quarry, Shap Rural, Eden, Cumbria
• Short Grain, Deer Hills, Caldbeck, Allerdale, Cumbria
• Silver Gill, Roughton Gill, Caldbeck, Allerdale, Cumbria
• Stockhow Quarry, Kirkland, Lamplugh, Copeland, Cumbria
• Stoneycroft Smelter slag locality, Above Derwent, Allerdale, Cumbria
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• Tynebottom Mine, Garrigill, Alston Moor, Eden, Cumbria
• Wad Mine, Seathwaite, Borrowdale, Allerdale, Cumbria
• Wet Swine Gill, Coombe Height, Caldbeck, Allerdale, Cumbria

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