Mines with Strike and Dip

15 linked mines · Geology: Strike and Dip

Listed only where MineArchive's own research gives a reasonable evidential basis for the connection — not every mine where this geology might plausibly apply.

Mine	Region	Worked	Commodities	Connection
Arcow Quarry	North Yorkshire	18th century–Still active	Sandstone	(well documented example) The record describes beds of the Austwick Formation dipping steeply south on the north limb of the Studrigg-Studfold Syncline, truncated by an unconformity beneath the horizontal limestones of the Great Scar Limestone Group — the structure is what the quarry face exposes.
Arkwright Colliery	Derbyshire	1938–April 1988	Coal	(well documented example) The drifts were sited where the Brimington anticline's uplift brings the Top Hard seam close to the surface, so they could be driven in coal rather than rock.
Bog Mine	Shropshire	1730s–1924	Lead, Silver, Zinc, Barite	(well documented example) The mine's own recorded geology explicitly gives both strike and dip for the Bog Vein: running broadly east-west and dipping around 45 degrees to the south.
Brackley Colliery	Greater Manchester	1878–1879 (sources differ)–1964	Coal	(well documented example) The colliery's dip is recorded specifically as varying from 1 in 5.5 to 1 in 20 and averaging 1 in 14, markedly gentler than the rest of the coalfield, and is given as the reason it had relatively few geological problems.
Castletown Mine	Argyll and Bute	by 1862–c. 1912 (revival 1910-12)	Copper	(well documented example) The mine's own recorded geology explicitly describes a north-east-trending vein dipping steeply west at 70 degrees.
Creggan Silver-Lead Mines	County Armagh	1852–1869–70 (reworked 1910–11)	Lead, Silver	(well documented example) The mine's own recorded geology explicitly describes the worked lode's strike within the Longford-Down Inlier's Silurian rocks.
Greenside Mine	Cumbria	1825–1962	Lead, Silver	(well documented example) The mine's own recorded geology explicitly describes a north-south fault dipping steeply east, averaging 70 degrees but varying between 58 and higher, directly illustrating how a real vein's strike and dip were surveyed and worked.
Hafotty Manganese Mine	Gwynedd	December 1885–1894 (underground)	Manganese	(well documented example) The mine's own recorded geology explicitly describes a narrow manganese bed dipping steeply at roughly 70 degrees, a difficult geometry directly shaped by its dip.
Hollingwood Colliery	Derbyshire	1840s–1872 (Deep Soft abandoned)	Coal	(well documented example) The pit's whole history turns on rise and dip: it took the seam from the outcrop downwards, lost ninety acres of dip workings to flooding in 1857, and thereafter worked only to the rise, two hundred feet above the seat of the fire.
Hyde Colliery	Greater Manchester	by 1842	Coal	(well documented example) The inspector's report turns on the dip: the strata lie at about 28 degrees, roughly 1 in 1.88 to the north-west, which set the layout of the engine brow and the metal brow and meant the same seam lay at very different depths across the take.
Milldam Mine	Derbyshire	1885–October 2023	Lead, Zinc, Barite, Fluorspar	(well documented example) The mine's own recorded geology explicitly describes the worked vein's width varying sharply 'along strike', and its workings developed accordingly in blocks.
Nunnery Colliery	South Yorkshire	1868–August 1953	Coal	(well documented example) The colliery is a textbook case of dip governing layout: an average dip of about four inches to the yard north-east put every working below the shaft bottom and made the inclined haulage plane, and the manriding on it, the central fact of the pit's operation.
Rhosydd Quarry	Gwynedd	From 1840–1948	Slate	(well documented example) The mine's own recorded geology explicitly gives a dip figure for the worked slate vein -- 108 feet thick, dipping north at 20-29 degrees.
Wenvoe Quarry	Vale of Glamorgan	1880s–2023 (an earlier phase ended by 1915)	Limestone	(well documented example) The record turns on the attitude of the beds: a formation some 265 m thick dipping about thirty degrees west, whose orientation against the fault controls the shape of the ridge and so the shape of the quarry.
Wheal Mary Ann	Cornwall	1845–c. 1875	Lead, Silver, Fluorspar	(well documented example) The mine's own recorded workings give a precise strike and underlie for the worked lode -- running 20-25 degrees west of south, with an average underlie east of about 15 inches per fathom -- the exact same Cornish strike-and-dip convention this article describes.

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