Pibble Mine
Creetown, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, UK
Pibble Mine is an abandoned copper and lead mine near Creetown. It was worked between 1849 and 1855.
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Pibble is not the best known mine in Scotland by any means, and is not well represented in mineral collections. I have only ever seen a few specimens from this location, and they all came from the same pre 1970s collection.
The site is now a scheduled ancient monument, and it is unlikely any collection would be allowed. It is an isolated site and reasonably well preserved, with a pumping engine house and crushing mill still partially remaining (but ruined) on site.
There are good writeups of the site linked below on the NMRS and GSG websites – Mindats article is a little sparse.
Further reading
- https://www.mindat.org/loc-5206.html
- https://nmrs.org.uk/mines-map/metal/south-west-scotland-mines/pibble-mine/
- https://registry.gsg.org.uk/sr/sitedetails.php?id=1171
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