Florence-Ullcoats Mine
Egremont, Copeland, Cumbria, England
Florence-Ullcoats Mine was an iron ore mine in Cumbria which was well known in mineral collectors circles for producing excellent specimens of iron ores, including hematite, kidney ore and specularite – often occurring alongside baryte, fluorite, and calcites.
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Florence mine was first sunk in 1914, and was combined with Ullcoats mine from 1917. It eventually closed in 1968.
It was reopened in 1969 and closed again in 1980. A group of miners from the site reinvested into the pit and opened it again, along with a visitors centre in 1992, until it was finally forced to close in 2007 due to the price of pumping the water out of the mine.
The Scottish Geology Trust provides an extremely detailed account of the mines geology, found below in PDF form.
The mine site now hosts the Florence Arts Centre, an unusual but interesting use for an old industrial site. Mining heritage tours are operated from the site from time to time.
Mindat lists 8 mineral species found at the site: Aragonite, Baryte, Calcite, Dolomite, Fluorite, Hematite, Pyrolusite, and Quartz.
Further reading:
- Northern Mine Research Society
- https://geoguide.scottishgeologytrust.org/p/gcr/gcr36/gcr36_florencemine.pdf
- https://www.mindat.org/loc-1454.html
If you are interested in other classic British locales we may have stock from the following locales.
British locales
I have only included the pieces attributed to specific places; not simply 'Weardale' for example.
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Angus, Scotland Bridgend, Wales Ceredigion, Wales
- Bwlch Glas Mine, Tal-y-bont, Ceulanymaesmawr, Ceredigion, Wales
- Cwmystwyth Mine, Cwmystwyth, Upper Llanfihangell-y-Creuddyn, Ceredigion, Wales
- Great South Tolgus, Tarewaste, Cornwall
- Greystone Quarry, Lezant, Cornwall
- Hingston Down Quarry, Gunnislake, Cornwall
- Melbur China Clay Pit, St Stephen-in-Brannel, Cornwall
- Penberthy Croft Mine, St Hilary, Cornwall
- Restormel Royal Iron Mine, Lostwithiel, Cornwall - formerly Trinity Mine
- South Caradon Mine, St Cleer, Cornwall
- Trevinnick Mine, St Kew, Cornwall
- West Wheal Jewel, St Day, Cornwall
- Wheal Cock, St Just, Cornwall
- Wheal Sparnon, Redruth, Cornwall
- Wheal Wrey, St Ive, Cornwall
- Brandy Gill Mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria
- Carrock Mine, Caldbeck Falls, Cumbria
- Dry Gill Mine, Caldbeck Falls, Cumbria
- Eskett Quarry, Copeland, Cumbria
- Florence-Ullcoats Mine, Egremont, Cumbria
- Goose Green Mine, Frizington, Cumbria
- Kinniside Mine, Copeland, Cumbria
- Mowbray mine, Frizington, Cumbria
- Old Brandlehow Mine, Keswich, Cumbria
- Red Gill Mine, Roughton Gill, Caldbeck, Allerdale, Cumbria, uk
- Roughton Gill Mine, Caldbeck Falls, Cumbria
- Smallcleugh mine, Nenthead, Alston, Cumbria.
- Drakelands Mine, Sparkwell, Devon
- Hemerdon Mine, Sparkwell, Devon
- High Down Quarry, West Buckland, Devon
- New England Quarry, Yealmpton, Devon
- Virtuous Lady Mine, Buckland, Devon
- Coatsgate Quarry, Moffat, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland
- Old Glencrieff Vein, Wanlockhead, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland
- Chipping Sodbury Quarry - formerly Hampstead Farm Quarry
- Hampstead Farm Quarry, now Chipping Sodbury Quarry
- Breedon Hill Quarry, Breedon on the Hill, Leicestershire
- Croft Quarry, Croft, Leicestershire
- New Cliffe Hill Quarry, Cliffe Hill Quarry, Stanton under Bardon, Leicestershire
For the rest of our British stock, see below.