Saddleback Old Mine

The mine appears to have been worked for lead, but primarily produced limonite – a form of yellow-brown iron ore. The owners attempted to market this as a pigment, but it was unsuccessful and the mine closed in 1894 only a few years after it was opened.

There were once dumps at the site, but they appear to have mostly been washed away by Storm Desmond in 2015. It is unclear whether any buildings remain on the site – small ruins still existed in 2006 but they may have also been damaged by the storms.

Mindat lists 28 minerals from the site, including some uncommon species – chiastolite, hinsdalite.

Further reading

• https://www.mindat.org/loc-5078.html
• https://www.lakesguides.co.uk/html/lgaz/lk09908.htm

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

• Arm O'Grain, Mungrisdale, Eden, Cumbria
• Brae Fell Mine, Roughton Gill, Caldbeck, Allerdale, Cumbria
• Brandy Gill Mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria
• Brownley Hill Mine, Nenthead, Alston Moor, Eden, Cumbria
• Burdell Gill, Coombe Height, Caldbeck, Allerdale, Cumbria
• Carrock Mine, Caldbeck Falls, Cumbria
• Deer Hills, Caldbeck, Allerdale, Cumbria
• Driggith Mine, Caldbeck, Allerdale, Cumbria
• Dry Gill Mine, Caldbeck Falls, Cumbria
• Eagle Crag Mine, Patterdale, Eden, Cumbria
• Eskett Quarry, Copeland, Cumbria
• Florence-Ullcoats Mine, Egremont, Cumbria - including the Florence and Ullcoats mines.
• Force Crag Mine, Coledale, Above Derwent, Allerdale, Cumbria
• Goose Green Mine, Frizington, Cumbria
• Haile Moor Mine, Haile, Copeland, Cumbria
• Haltcliffe Copper Smelter, Caldbeck, Cumbria
• Hartley Birkett Mine, Hartley, Eden, Cumbria
• Hartsop Hall Mine, Hartsop, Patterdale, Eden, Cumbria
• Higher Roughton Gill, Roughton Gill, Caldbeck, Allerdale, Cumbria
• Hilton Mine, Scordale, Murton, Eden, Cumbria
• Iron Crag, Roughton Gill, Caldbeck, Allerdale, Cumbria
• Kinniside Mine, Copeland, Cumbria
• Lindal Moor Mine, Lindal & Marton, Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria
• Mexico Mine, Roughton Gill, Caldbeck, Allerdale, Cumbria
• Middlecleugh Upper Level, Nenthead, Alston Moor, Eden, Cumbria
• 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
• Saddleback Old Mine, Mungrisdale, Eden, Cumbria
• Sandbeds Gill Mine, Bassenthwaite, Allerdale, 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
• Smallcleugh mine, Nenthead, Alston, Cumbria
• Tynebottom Mine, Garrigill, Alston Moor, Eden, Cumbria
• Wad Mine, Seathwaite, Borrowdale, Allerdale, Cumbria
• Wet Swine Gill, Coombe Height, Caldbeck, Allerdale, Cumbria
• Wythburn Mine, St. John's Castlerigg and Wythburn, Allerdale, Cumbria

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