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Force Crag Mine

Other Business Names:

  • Leconfield, Lord
  • Cumberland Mines Ltd
  • Coledale Syndicate Ltd
  • Braithwate Ltd
  • Derwent Fells Mining Co Ltd
  • Tampimex Oil Products Ltd
  • Laporte Chemical Co Ltd
  • McKechnie Brothers
  • New Coledale Mining Co Ltd

Locations city-town / local authority / county1974 / region-state / country:

  • Keswick, Cumbria, Cumbria, North West, England

Sectors:

  • Extraction Baryte & calcite extraction
  • Extraction Lead extraction
  • Extraction Zinc extraction

Notes:

Worked intermittently especially from 1839, initially producing lead and latterly zinc and barytes from 1867. Throughout leased from family of Lord Leconfield. Run by a succession of operators most notably, from end of 19th century, Cumberland Mines Ltd, Coledale Syndicate Ltd, Braithwate Ltd, Derwent Fells Mining Co Ltd, Tampimex Oil Products Ltd, Laporte Chemical Co Ltd, McKechnie Brothers, New Coledale Mining Co Ltd; etc. Finally closed 1991

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