Carrock Mine
Caldbeck Fells Mining Region, Cumbria, England, UK
Carrock Mine was an arsenic, lead, and tungsten mine in the well known Caldbeck fells area of Cumbria. It was, for a while, the only English tungsten mine outside of Cornwall.
It is primarily known for wolframite and scheelite, principle ores of Tungsten – hugely important for military uses, in particular the manufacturing of armour. The mine was extremely important in both world wars, eventually closing in 1981. The site is now protected, and no collecting is allowed.
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- Carrock Mine, Caldbeck Falls, Cumbria
- Dry Gill Mine, Caldbeck Falls, Cumbria
- Florence-Ullcoats Mine, Egremont, Cumbria
- Goose Green Mine, Frizington, Cumbria
- Kinniside Mine, Copeland, Cumbria
- Mowbray mine, Frizington, Cumbria
- Old Brandlehow Mine, Keswich, Cumbria
- Roughton Gill Mine, Caldbeck Falls, Cumbria
- Smallcleugh mine, Nenthead, Alston, Cumbria.
- Chipping Sodbury Quarry - formerly Hampstead Farm Quarry, Sodbury, Gloucestershire
- Hampstead Farm Quarry, now Chipping Sodbury Quarry, Sodbury, Gloucestershire
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