Lolly Scar Mine
Stonebeck Down, Harrogate, North Yorkshire, England, UK
Lolly Scar Mine is an abandoned lead mine, worked primarily between 1889 and 1910.
I highly recommend looking at the NMRS writeup for this locale; Mindat didn’t actually have a page for this locale until I added it and there isn’t too much info on the locale available.
Most of the history on the NMRS site is about the operation of the site but it does mention a little about the minerals found there, namely fluorite, baryte, calcite, witherite, ‘blende’ (typically sphalerite), and galena.
It does seem that British Mining No 60 – The Greenhow Mines may have some information on Lolly Scar, but I’m afraid I don’t have a copy. There is a good writeup of the history of the site in “Lolly Scar & Blayshaw Gill Lead Mines” linked below on the NMRS website though.
Further reading
- https://www.mindat.org/loc-468839.html
- https://nmrs.org.uk/mines-map/metal/mid-pennine-mines/fsouth/lolly-scar-mine/
- https://www.nmrs.org.uk/assets/mines/f/fsouth/lollyscar.html
- https://www.nmrs.org.uk/assets/pdf/M74/M74-203-204-lolly.pdf
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