Wapping Mine

Matlock Bath, Derbyshire Dales District, Derbyshire, England, UK

Wapping Mine is an old lead mine, later worked for fluorspar.

An old lead mine – worked as early as the 1750s. From the 1920s it was worked for fluorspar, although it was closed again by the 1960s.

Internally, Wapping Mine connects to the Cumberland Cavern, or Royal Cumberland Cavern, a show cavern opened in the 1780s. It was used as a party cave by a gang called the Troggs sometime in the 60s or 70s, and may have been used by the Hells Angels too.

 

Mindat lists 19 minerals from the site including cerussite, galena, greenockite, hemimorphite and smithsonite.

There are some excellent photos from inside on both the NeolithicSea and 28DaysLater links below.

28DaysLater especially has a number of well drawn maps from inside the mine.

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