Mines with Veins and Lodes

194 linked mines · Geology: Veins and Lodes

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
Alport Mines	Derbyshire	17th century–mid-1800s (mining); 1890s (smelting)	Lead	(well documented example) The mine's own recorded geology explicitly describes working lead-bearing veins.
Alva Silver Mine (Silver Glen)	Clackmannanshire	1712–1716 (main bonanza); cobalt worked intermittently later	Silver, Cobalt	(well documented example) The mine's own recorded geology explicitly describes working a vein system.
Arkendale Mine	North Yorkshire	In the returns from 1882–1905	Lead	(well documented example) The mine followed the lead veins of the Yorkshire Pennine orefield through the Carboniferous limestones and shales of Arkengarthdale.
Ballacorkish Mine	Isle of Man	worked before 1819 (earlier phase, abandoned); revived 1862–1895	Lead, Silver, Zinc, Ochre	(well documented example) The mine's own recorded geology explicitly describes working a large east-west lode.
Bedford United Mine	Devon	1841–1890 (main working); arsenic to 1920s	Copper, Tin, Arsenic, Tungsten	(well documented example) The mine's own recorded geology explicitly describes working copper-bearing lodes.
Beever Mine	North Yorkshire	Working by 1826; engine shaft sunk 1836–Late 19th century	Lead	(well documented example) Beever worked the Yarnbury lead veins of the Yorkshire Pennine orefield, one of a scatter of shafts sunk on them across Grassington Moor.
Beezy Mine	North Yorkshire	Before 1765–Before 1861 (still listed 1863-74)	Lead	(well documented example) Worked one of three near-parallel mineralised strings (Satron Tarn, Simon Grooves, Beezy) carrying galena in flots in limestone and chert, per the BGS memoir.
Belowda Mine	Cornwall	Late 19th century–No reliable closure date has yet been located.	Tin	(well documented example) Cornish tin in cassiterite-bearing lodes associated with a small granite intrusion — the vein deposit type this record's geology describes, worked from lode-backs on the top of the Beacon.
Birker Moor Mine	Cumbria	By 1881, possibly earlier–Not working by 1888	Iron	(well documented example) The record describes haematite occurring in near-vertical veins running roughly north-south across Eskdale and cutting the Eskdale Granite — a vein deposit followed as such, explicitly contrasted in the sources with the limestone replacement orebodies elsewhere in Cumbria.
Blackett Level	Northumberland	Begun 1855–Driving abandoned 1903	Lead	(well documented example) The level was driven across the grain of the North Pennine orefield in the East Allen valley expressly to cut lead veins, and found few that paid.
Blakethwaite Mine	North Yorkshire	1819 (mine); 1821 (smelt mill)–1878	Lead	(well documented example) The mine's own recorded geology explicitly describes working lead-bearing veins.
Blanchland Fluor Mines	Northumberland	1938 (fluorspar); lead worked here from 1725–No reliable closure date has yet been located.	Lead, Fluorspar	(well documented example) The fluorspar was taken from wide quarter-point veins — White Vein, Red Vein and the Red Vein String — that earlier lead miners had worked for galena, leaving the spar behind.
Bog Mine	Shropshire	1730s–1924	Lead, Zinc, Barite	(well documented example) The mine's own recorded geology explicitly describes working the Bog Vein and associated lodes.
Botallack Mine	Cornwall	1500s–1895	Tin, Lead, Cobalt, Copper, Arsenic, Silver	(well documented example) The mine's own recorded history describes working a specific lode by name.
Bowes Cross Mine	North Yorkshire	Working by 1888–No reliable closure date has yet been located.	Lead	(historical documentary reference) A lead mine on the western edge of the northern Pennine orefield, where the ore occurs in near-vertical veins cutting the Yoredale sequence that forms this township's subsoil, as the record's geology describes.
Brandelhow Mine	Cumbria	worked by the 1560s (Elizabethan); reopened on a larger scale in 1819–early 1891	Lead, Copper, Silver, Graphite	(well documented example) The mine's own recorded geology explicitly describes working mineral veins.
Brownley Hill Mine	Cumbria	worked from the early 1700s–1966	Lead, Silver, Zinc	(well documented example) The mine's own recorded geology explicitly describes working the Brownley Hill Vein.
Bryntail Lead Mine	Powys	Worked from the late 18th century–1884	Lead, Barite	(well documented example) The Van Lode, a galena and barytes vein in the Central Wales orefield, worked here at its western end.
Burrow Farm Mine	Somerset	1860 (shaft sunk)–1883	Iron	(well documented example) The record describes ore worked from a lode in the Morte Slates, and the lode's unreliability — 'fickle' in the sources — is the stated reason the mine closed in 1868.
Bwlchgwyn Mine	Ceredigion	From 1735–Early 20th century	Lead, Zinc	(well documented example) The mine followed narrow steeply dipping lead veins of the Central Wales orefield, the vein in the bottoms recorded as twelve to eighteen inches wide with a separate north lode carrying ancient workings.
CB Mine	North Yorkshire	Bathurst family acquired mineral rights 1654–1883 (CB Mining Company)	Lead	(well documented example) The mine's own recorded geology explicitly describes working lead veins.
Cabbish Mine	Cumbria	Lead from 1859; barytes from 1905–1930	Barite, Lead	(well documented example) The mine worked the Cabbish and Parlour veins, northern Pennine mineral veins carrying lead with barytes as gangue.
Cambokeels Mine	County Durham	1868 (lead, Beaumont Company); reopened 1905 for fluorspar–1989	Fluorspar, Lead	(well documented example) The mine's own recorded geology explicitly describes working the Slitt Vein.
Carn Galver Mine	Cornwall	worked early 19th century (three main periods: to 1840; 1851-1869; 1871-1875)–1875	Tin	(well documented example) The mine's own recorded geology explicitly describes working a tin lode.
Carrs Mine	Cumbria	By 1679–Early 1940s	Lead, Zinc	(surviving physical example) Worked the Smallcleugh Cross Vein and Carrs Cross Vein West with flats spreading from them into the limestone; the vein mineralisation is visible in the walls of the horse level.
Carshield Mine	Northumberland	Barney Craig Horse Level opened in the 1770s–Zinc working to 1913; still returned in 1914	Lead, Zinc	(well documented example) A North Pennine mine working near-vertical lead veins through a Carboniferous sequence, whose zinc — left in those same veins as waste by the lead miners — gave the ground a second working life, as this record's geology explains.
Cash Well Mine	Cumbria	By the 18th century–c. 1921	Lead	(well documented example) The record describes workings following the line of the Cashwell vein across the fell — an opencut and hush along its outcrop, with levels driven later from below to reach the same vein at depth.
Chariot Mine	Derbyshire	Worked in the 18th century–Disused by about 1880	Lead	(well documented example) The mine worked lead veins in the Carboniferous limestone of the southern Derbyshire orefield around Brassington, Carsington and Hopton.
Chewton Mineries	Somerset	1541 (first documented); probably earlier–1883	Lead	(well documented example) The mine's own recorded geology explicitly describes working lead veins.
Cleasby Mines	North Yorkshire	1907; company formed 1908–1914	Lead	(well documented example) The older Faggergill working followed the Old Vein in the chert beds above the Main Limestone; the Stang & Cleasby work went instead into swallow holes near the top of that limestone.
Cligga Head	Cornwall	pre-1825–1945	Tin, Copper, Arsenic, Tungsten, Silver	(well documented example) Alongside the greisen the record already links to, Cligga's own description names the mineral lodes cut through that altered granite, carrying tin, tungsten, arsenic, copper, iron and silver — the lodes are what the numbered crosscuts on each level were driven to reach.
Clogau Gold Mine	Gwynedd	1854–1998	Gold, Copper	(well documented example) The record names the St David's lode, a gold-bearing quartz vein in Clogau mountain worked through levels driven either side of a geological fault — a vein deposit followed underground, within the wider Dolgellau gold belt.
Coalcleugh	Northumberland	17th century–1878 (Beaumont); reworked to 1921	Lead, Zinc, Fluorspar	(well documented example) The mine's own recorded geology explicitly describes working the Low Coalcleugh, High Coalcleugh and Barneycraig veins.
Cobscar Mill	North Yorkshire	built 1762–c. 1830 (main working); refurbished 1848	Lead, Zinc	(well documented example) The mine's own recorded geology explicitly describes processing ore from lead veins.
Coniston Copper Mines	Cumbria	1590s–early 20th century (residual activity to 1956)	Copper	(well documented example) The record describes Elizabethan working following veins visible at the surface down into long narrow open stopes, still preserved at Simon's Nick — the classic signature of a steep vein worked from outcrop downwards.
Consolidated Mines	Cornwall	1782–1870	Copper, Tin, Arsenic, Zinc, Pyrite	(well documented example) The mine worked around eight main lodes through killas, crossed by intrusive elvan dykes, of which the Virgin Lode was the most productive and was stoped continuously for more than 1.3 miles.
Cook's Kitchen Mine	Cornwall	worked for copper by early 18th century; tin from mid-19th century–1913	Copper, Tin, Arsenic	(well documented example) The mine's own recorded geology explicitly describes working copper and tin lodes.
Cornish Hush Mine	County Durham	By 1863–1980	Lead, Fluorspar	(well documented example) A small vein mine of the North Pennine orefield: the sources name the Cornish Hush Vein and the Sharnberry Vein as the targets of the 1970s fluorspar reworking, the second never reached.
Cow Green Mine	County Durham	Veins worked from the late 18th century–1954	Barite, Lead	(well documented example) Barytes and galena in near-vertical veins along faults offshooting the Teesdale Fault, the lead in the centre and the barytes around it — the vein deposit this record's geology describes lens by lens.
Craig-y-Mwyn Mine	Powys	1692–19th century (exact final date unrecorded)	Lead	(well documented example) The mine's own recorded geology explicitly describes working a lead vein.
Crook Burn Mine	Cumbria	In the returns by 1888–Gone from the returns by 1902	Lead	(historical documentary reference) A small North Pennine lead venture on Alston Moor, where the ore is carried in near-vertical veins cutting the Carboniferous sequence — the deposit type that shaped every mine on that orefield, this record's own geology section included.
Cwm Elan Mine	Powys	1796 (vein discovered); main working from 1871–September 1877	Lead, Zinc	(well documented example) The mine's own recorded geology explicitly describes working a lead- and zinc-bearing vein.
Cwm Rheidol Mine	Ceredigion	1698–1917	Lead, Zinc, Silver	(well documented example) The record names the Castell Lode, worked from four separate setts through quartz-cemented breccias in Silurian mudstones and sandstones — a lode followed underground rather than a bedded or replacement deposit.
Cwmystwyth Mines	Ceredigion	Bronze Age–1950	Lead, Copper, Silver, Zinc	(well documented example) The record describes Cwmystwyth working lead-, silver- and zinc-bearing veins alongside the Bronze Age copper workings on the Comet lode — a vein deposit followed from surface opencast working on Copa Hill down into deep levels over four millennia.
Danescombe Mine	Cornwall	Working before 1837–After 1900	Copper, Arsenic	(well documented example) Danescombe worked copper lodes of the Tamar valley district, the arsenic coming from the mispickel in the same ground once copper ceased to pay.
Devon Great Consols	Devon	1844–1903	Copper, Tin, Arsenic, Tungsten	(well documented example) The mine's own recorded history describes working a specific vein by name.
Devon United Mine	Devon	Copper from about 1820; East Wheal Friendship before 1835–1923	Copper, Arsenic, Tin, Tungsten	(well documented example) All three mines worked east-west hydrothermal quartz-chlorite lodes of the main-stage mineralising event on the western flank of the Dartmoor Granite, at the tin-copper zone boundary.
Diana Maria Mine	County Durham	2017 (opencast); 2018 (underground)–Still active	Fluorspar	(well documented example) The mine follows the Sutcliffe Vein, a mineralised vein cutting the Great Limestone, from its outcrop in the quarry face inwards.
Ding Dong Mine	Cornwall	documented from early 17th century; possibly prehistoric–1877 (main working); 1912-1915 and 1928 reopening attempts	Tin, Copper	(well documented example) The mine's own recorded geology explicitly describes working a group of named lodes.
Dolaucothi Gold Mines	Carmarthenshire	c. 70 AD–1938	Gold	(well documented example) Dolaucothi's own geology text describes gold occurring in quartz veins along the Cothi Anticline, with the richest deposit the 'Roman Lode' saddle reef.
Dolcoath Mine	Cornwall	1720s–1920	Tin, Copper, Arsenic, Silver	(well documented example) The record describes Dolcoath working the Main Lode from copper in the shallower ground into tin at depth, with an exceptionally rich lode met at the 412 fathom level — a single great lode followed downwards, which is why the mine ended up the deepest in Cornwall.
Douglas Head Mine	Isle of Man	Working by 1902–Stopped 1902	Lead	(historical documentary reference) A lead venture on the Isle of Man, where the ore occurs in near-vertical veins cutting the Manx Group slates, as this record's geology describes — though nothing establishes which vein this working was following.
Dovegang Mine	Derbyshire	already 'ancient' by 1652–gradually exhausted through the 19th century	Lead	(well documented example) The mine's own recorded geology explicitly describes working the Dove Gange vein and its tributaries.
Dowgang Mine	Cumbria	Hushing by 1773; in the returns from 1882–Standing by 1902	Lead, Zinc	(well documented example) The mine worked lead and zinc veins of the Alston Block, with the hush cut to lay the vein bare at surface and shafts and levels driven along its course.
Dowpot Syke and Guttergill Mine	Cumbria	By 1735, possibly earlier–No reliable closure date has yet been located.	Lead	(historical documentary reference) The record places the workings among the lead veins of the Alston Block in the Northern Pennine Orefield, where the ore occupies faults through the Carboniferous sequence; the specific veins at these two groves are not described in any source located, so the link is at district level.
Drws-y-Coed Copper Mine	Gwynedd	worked since medieval times; recorded 1284; active mining from 1761/1768–1903	Copper	(well documented example) The mine's own recorded geology explicitly describes working copper lodes.
Dylife	Powys	1640–1901	Lead, Copper, Silver, Zinc	(well documented example) The record describes Dylife working three connected lead- and zinc-bearing lodes — the Dylife, Esgairgaled and Llechwedd Ddu veins — and the surviving abandonment plans are filed under those same names, which is how a multi-vein deposit gets developed and recorded.
East Pool Mine	Cornwall	1698–1945	Tin, Copper, Arsenic, Tungsten, Uranium	(well documented example) The record describes East Pool working tin and copper lodes in the ground between Camborne and Redruth, and the surviving mine plans are individual lode plans — Moreings Lode, North Pool Lode, Rogers Lode — which is how a vein/lode deposit is developed and recorded.
East Wheal Rose	Cornwall	lead discovered 1812; mine established 1834–1886	Lead, Silver, Zinc	(well documented example) The mine's own recorded geology explicitly describes working two lead-bearing lodes.
Esgair Mwyn Mine	Ceredigion	ancient origins (unknown date); rediscovered 1746–1994 (final spoil-reprocessing closure); main lead working ended 1927	Lead, Copper, Silver, Zinc	(well documented example) The mine's own recorded geology explicitly describes working a mineral vein.
Excelsior Mine	Cornwall	early 1850s–1946 (mining); 1938 (tunnel driving)	Tin, Copper, Tungsten	(well documented example) The mine's own recorded geology explicitly describes working tin- and copper-bearing lodes.
Fallowfield Mine	Northumberland	Documented from 1611; probably Roman in origin–1911	Witherite, Lead, Barite	(well documented example) A single vein followed for a mile and a half — and worked twice over, first for the galena in it and then for the barium minerals alongside.
Faucet Rake	Derbyshire	Worked by at least 1680; main period from c.1780–Mid-19th century	Lead	(surviving physical example) Faucet Rake is a textbook example of a rake vein worked from surface: a linear series of shafts and open cuts following the line of an inclined lead vein for over a mile and a half.
Force Crag Mine	Cumbria	1839–1990	Lead, Zinc, Barite, Silver	(well documented example) The record describes Force Crag working lead, zinc, silver and barytes from low and high workings reached by adits into the valley side — a vein deposit worked on more than one horizon rather than a bedded one.
Foxdale Mines	Isle of Man	1724–1911	Lead, Silver, Zinc	(well documented example) The record describes a mineralised zone running broadly east-west across the island with the Foxdale workings concentrated around the village, developed through shafts such as Beckwith to 230 fathoms — a vein field worked shaft by shaft rather than a single body.
Frank Mills Mine	Devon	1847 (search for northern lode extension); main working from 1854–1880	Lead, Silver, Barite, Fluorspar, Iron	(well documented example) The mine's own recorded geology explicitly describes working the West Lode and East Lode.
Frongoch Mine	Ceredigion	1792–1910	Lead, Zinc	(well documented example) The record describes Frongoch working near-vertical lead-zinc veins in Silurian shales, flags and mudstones — a steep vein deposit, which is why the mine was developed through shafts like Vaughan's rather than by following a bed.
Geevor Tin Mine	Cornwall	1911–1990	Tin, Copper	(well documented example) The mine's own recorded history describes working a specific vein by name.
George and Charlotte Copper Mine	Devon	Opened in the 18th century; copper exported from Morwellham from 1712–1869	Copper, Pyrite	(well documented example) Chalcopyrite in the mineralised belt around the Dartmoor granite — the same copper ground that produced Devon Great Consols a few miles up the Tamar.
Glasdir Mine	Gwynedd	worked from c. 1852 (opencast); Elmore family ownership from 1896–1915	Copper, Silver, Gold	(well documented example) The mine's own recorded geology explicitly describes the mine's mineralisation within the wider Dolgellau gold belt.
Glengonnar	South Lanarkshire	1239 (earliest record); worked from 16th century for gold–1940	Lead, Silver, Gold	(well documented example) The mine's own recorded geology explicitly describes working the Brown Vein.
Golden Dagger Mine	Devon	worked from 1879–November 1930 (last commercially worked mine on Dartmoor)	Tin	(well documented example) The mine's own recorded geology explicitly describes working tin-bearing lodes.
Goldscope Mine	Cumbria	1564–late 19th century	Copper, Lead, Silver, Gold	(well documented example) The mine's own recorded geology explicitly describes distinct east-west copper and north-south lead veins.
Great Dowgas Mine	Cornwall	c. 1719–1913	Tin, Copper, Cobalt, Nickel	(well documented example) The mine's own geology field describes five south-east-trending lodes in a crush zone, the classic vein/lode form, with Goffins Lode named as the principal lode developed along 300 fathoms of strike.
Great Laxey Mine	Isle of Man	1780s–1929	Lead, Copper, Silver, Zinc	(well documented example) The record describes a near-vertical quartz vein carrying lead, zinc, silver and copper, worked from three principal shafts to over 2,200 ft — a steep vein deposit followed downwards rather than a bed worked outwards.
Great Rock Mine	Devon	c. 1822–1969	Micaceous Haematite, Iron	(well documented example) Five lodes worked for an iron oxide that was never smelted — the value was in the shape of the flakes, not the metal in them.
Great Work Mine	Cornwall	By 1538–1939	Tin, Copper, Lead	(well documented example) Great Work worked five named lodes (Main, Wheal Reeth, Middle, Wheal Breage and South Wheal Breage) hosted in the Godolphin-Tregonning granite — the mine's own workings record is a documented example of vein/lode-style tin-copper mineralisation, including Henwood's 1843 observation of the Wheal Breage lode's tin content disappearing at the granite/killas contact.
Greenburn Mine	Cumbria	worked from late 17th century; intensive from c. 1845–c. 1885 (main working); ceased entirely by 1940	Copper	(well documented example) The mine's own recorded geology explicitly describes working copper lodes.
Grogwynion Mine	Ceredigion	worked by 1744 (probably earlier)–1889	Lead	(well documented example) The mine's own recorded geology explicitly describes working a lead vein.
Groverake Mine	County Durham	Ironstone from 1819; lead and later fluorspar into the 20th century–1999	Fluorspar, Lead, Iron	(well documented example) Worked on the Groverake, Greencleugh and Red veins — fault-hosted vein bodies, at their widest where they cut the Great Limestone.
Gunnislake Clitters Mine	Cornwall	c. 1820–1919 (working ceased); the sett passed to the Duchy of Cornwall	Copper, Tin, Arsenic, Tungsten	(well documented example) The mine followed lodes down a steep valley side from an adit at river level to at least the 188-fathom level, the form of working that a narrow steep orebody forces.
Hafna Mine	Conwy	Early workings of uncertain date–1913 (the mill worked on to about 1915)	Lead, Zinc, Pyrite	(well documented example) Narrow, steep, irregular galena and sphalerite veins in Ordovician rocks — the reason the Gwydir Forest was worked as a scatter of small mines following individual lodes rather than a few large ones.
Halkyn Mountain	Flintshire	Bronze Age–1987	Lead, Silver, Zinc	(well documented example) The record describes Halkyn Mountain as a spine of Carboniferous limestone hosting lead and zinc-bearing veins, and the surviving plans are filed by individual lode — California, Pant-y-Gof, Halkyn — which is how the mountain was actually worked.
Haslowfield Mine	Derbyshire	Mainly 18th century–No reliable closure date has yet been located.	Lead	(well documented example) The level was driven after a mineral vein into the Carboniferous limestone of the Via Gellia, opening a network of passages off it.
Hazard Mine	Derbyshire	Post-medieval; working recorded from the 1830s–No reliable closure date has yet been located.	Lead, Calcite	(well documented example) The mine worked a lead vein on Dirtlow Rake in the Carboniferous limestone of the White Peak, its hillocks mainly the calcite gangue that filled the vein.
Healeyfield Mine	County Durham	Working by the late 18th century–Still returning, for ganister, in 1930	Lead, Ganister	(historical documentary reference) A lead mine on the eastern edge of the North Pennine orefield, where the ore is carried in near-vertical veins cutting the Carboniferous sequence, as this record's geology section describes.
Heights Pasture Mine	County Durham	1850 (Weardale Iron Company)–No reliable closure date has yet been located.	Lead, Fluorspar, Iron	(well documented example) Three veins — Heights North, Heights South and West Cross — carry the workings, which were driven to reach the flats beside them.
Hendre Mine	Flintshire	Old workings; Olwyn Goch from 1931–1977 (lead); 1987 (all work)	Lead, Zinc, Limestone	(well documented example) The Halkyn ore was carried in steeply dipping east-west veins in Carboniferous Limestone, numbered rather than named, and the Milwr Tunnel was driven to intersect them.
Herland Mine	Cornwall	worked from at least 1726–1874 (final closure, as Rosewarne and Herland United)	Copper, Silver	(well documented example) The mine's own recorded geology explicitly describes working copper lodes.
Herodsfoot Mine	Cornwall	early 1700s (intermittent); main working from 1845–1884	Lead, Silver	(well documented example) The mine's own recorded geology explicitly describes working silver-lead lodes.
High Sedling Mine	County Durham	Working by 1930–Abandoned by 1930	Fluorspar	(historical documentary reference) A working on the Sedling vein at the head of Weardale, where the minerals occur in near-vertical veins occupying normal faults of small throw, banded roughly parallel to the walls, as this record's geology describes.
Hilton and Scordale Mines	Cumbria	Worked by the 18th century; London Lead Company from 1824–Work ceased after 1919; lease finally abandoned 1963	Lead, Barite, Fluorspar, Witherite	(well documented example) Ore-bearing veins run up both sides of the valley, with the associated flats at the top of the Melmerby Scar Limestone.
Holmbush Mine	Cornwall	Probably early 1600s–1892	Tin, Copper, Arsenic, Lead, Silver	(well documented example) Two lode systems crossing at right angles: five east-north-east copper-tin lodes and a separate north-south lead lode, the lead and silver lying above the copper and tin.
Holyfield Mine	Cumbria	Worked by 1828–No reliable closure date has yet been located.	Lead	(historical documentary reference) A venture on the Alston Moor block of the North Pennine orefield, where the lead occurs in near-vertical veins cutting the Carboniferous sequence — the Holyfield Sun Vein among them — as this record's geology describes.
Kelly Mine	Devon	1797 (first recorded lease)–1951	Micaceous Haematite	(well documented example) Hydrothermal lodes in the Dartmoor granite carrying an iron oxide that was never smelted — worked for the shape of its flakes, not the metal in them.
Killhope Lead Mine	County Durham	1818–1910	Lead, Zinc	(well documented example) The mine's own recorded geology explicitly describes eleven intersected mineral veins.
King Edward Mine (South Condurrow)	Cornwall	South Condurrow reopened 1844–South Condurrow closed 1896	Tin, Copper	(well documented example) The mine's own recorded geology explicitly describes working tin and copper lodes.
Ladywash Mine	Derbyshire	sough begun 1714; mine started 1740; reworked from 1936/1950s–1979	Lead, Fluorspar	(well documented example) The mine's own recorded geology explicitly describes working the Hucklow Edge vein.
Langley Barony Mine	Northumberland	Leased 1868–1893	Lead, Barite, Whinstone	(well documented example) Argentiferous lead in near-vertical veins through the Carboniferous sequence, with barytes in the same veins — the deposit type that gave this sett two of its three returned products, as the record's geology explains.
Leadhills	South Lanarkshire	1239–1938	Lead, Silver, Gold	(well documented example) The record describes ore worked from a series of levels on the hillsides around the village, and the surviving plans are filed vein by vein — Hopeful, Jeffrey's, Meadowhead, Raik — which is how the Leadhills field was actually developed.
Levant Mine	Cornwall	1787–1930	Tin, Arsenic, Copper	(well documented example) Worked on steeply-dipping lodes followed more than a mile out beneath the Atlantic.
Lintzgarth Mine	County Durham	Developing in 1930–Suspended June 1930	Lead	(historical documentary reference) A lead working in the central North Pennine orefield, where the ore occurs in near-vertical veins through the Carboniferous sequence and in flats spreading from them into the Great Limestone, as this record's geology describes.
Llywernog Mine	Ceredigion	1742 (vein discovered); worked from 1770s–1891 (lead); 1911 (zinc revival)	Lead, Silver, Zinc	(well documented example) The mine's own recorded geology explicitly describes working a lead- and silver-bearing vein.
Lodge Syke Mine	County Durham	Working under the London Lead Company by 1888–No reliable closure date has yet been located.	Lead	(well documented example) A Teesdale mine driven along the Lodgesike-Manorgill vein through the Carboniferous sequence, the vein continuous enough that workings from two separate valleys met along it, as this record's geology describes.
Loggerheads	Denbighshire	worked from at least the 18th century–19th century (exact closure date unclear); site now a country park	Lead, Zinc	(well documented example) The mine's own recorded geology explicitly describes working mineral veins.
Longstone Edge	Derbyshire	worked from at least the 18th century (lead veins)–No single closure date; working continued into the 2000s	Fluorspar, Lead, Barite	(well documented example) The mine's own recorded geology explicitly describes working lead veins.
Longtor Mines	Derbyshire	Post-medieval; worked before c. 1730–No reliable closure date has yet been located.	Lead, Zinc, Fluorspar	(well documented example) The workings follow lead veins in the Carboniferous limestone of the Matlock gorge, in ground the record notes for its spectacular faulting.
Magpie Mine	Derbyshire	1740–1958	Lead	(well documented example) The record describes Magpie working lead-bearing veins in the Derbyshire limestone, the Great Redsoil vein among them — and it was the question of who owned that vein where the two mines met that led to the 1833 deaths.
Mandale Mine	Derbyshire	1797–1851	Lead	(well documented example) The record describes Mandale working lead-bearing veins in the Derbyshire limestone of Lathkill Dale, with a sough driven up the vein from 1797 — the vein itself dictating where the drainage level had to go.
Merrybent Copper Mine	North Yorkshire	c. 1856; Engine Shaft 1866; reopened 1910–Not worked after 1925; abandoned 1930	Copper, Lead	(well documented example) Eight named copper veins in the Underset Limestone are listed by Mindat.
Middleton Tyas Copper Mine	North Yorkshire	worked sporadically from the 15th century; main phase mid-18th century–mid-18th century (exact date unrecorded)	Copper	(well documented example) The mine's own recorded geology explicitly describes working copper veins.
Milldam Mine	Derbyshire	Lead mining to 1885; reopened for fluorspar in 1985–Production ceased October 2023; on care and maintenance	Lead, Zinc, Barite, Fluorspar	(well documented example) Milldam works the Hucklow Edge vein — a mineralised fissure in limestone beneath a shale cap.
Minera Lead Mines	Wrexham	13th century (documented); revived 1845 under John Taylor & Sons–1914	Lead, Zinc	(well documented example) The field was worked as multiple named lead veins in the Carboniferous limestone of Esclusham Mountain, with new veins found once the 1852 adit had drained the ground.
Morallee Fell Mine	Northumberland	Exploring in 1888–No reliable closure date has yet been located.	Lead	(historical documentary reference) A venture exploring the northern edge of the North Pennine orefield, where lead and barytes share near-vertical veins through the Carboniferous sequence, as this record's geology describes.
Mount Wellington Mine	Cornwall	1976–1978 (initial closure)	Tin	(well documented example) The mine's own recorded geology explicitly describes working tin-bearing lodes.
Mulreesh Lead Mines	Argyll and Bute	1360 (earliest evidence); worked intermittently to 1872–1900	Lead, Silver	(well documented example) The mine's own recorded geology explicitly describes working lead-bearing veins.
Mynachdy (Rhosmynach and Carmel Head Copper Mines)	Anglesey	Gaddair Copper Mining Company from 1839–1926	Copper, Chrysotile	(well documented example) An east-west quartz-chalcopyrite vein at Carmel Head, and three separate assayed lodes at Rhosmynach nearby — modest copper mineralisation on Anglesey's north-western tip, far smaller than the Parys Mountain orebody its own promoters once compared it to.
Nangiles Mine	Cornwall	by 1808–1915 (last substantial working); investigated 1969–1991	Copper, Tin, Zinc, Pyrite	(well documented example) Nangiles's own geology and workings text names the specific lodes worked (Mundic/Baldu and Nangiles Copper) and describes a set of shafts sunk on them — a genuine, well-documented vein/lode working, not an inferred connection.
Nant-y-Garw Lead Mine	Powys	1877 (vein discovered); 1882 (work commenced)–1899	Lead	(well documented example) The mine's own recorded geology explicitly describes working a lead-bearing vein.
Nenthead Mines	Cumbria	1737–1961	Lead, Silver, Zinc	(well documented example) The record describes Nenthead working lead- and zinc-bearing veins in the North Pennines orefield, and the surviving plans are filed vein by vein — Middlecleugh Second Sun, Smallcleugh, Dowgang — which is how the district was actually developed.
Nentsbury Mine	Cumbria	No reliable opening date has yet been located.–Still returning 108 men underground in 1930	Lead, Zinc	(well documented example) A North Pennine mine on the mineralised Alston Moor block, where lead and zinc share near-vertical veins through the Carboniferous sequence — the reason a zinc company could make a business of ground the lead miners had finished with, as this record's geology explains.
New Consols Mine	Cornwall	worked as Wheal Martha from the 19th century–1953	Tin, Copper, Arsenic, Lead, Silver	(well documented example) The mine's own recorded geology explicitly describes working copper, tin, lead and silver lodes.
New Glencrieff Mine	Dumfries and Galloway	1718–1958 (main working); reprocessing to early 1960s	Lead, Zinc	(well documented example) The mine's own recorded geology explicitly describes working the New Glencrieff Vein.
North Laxey Mine	Isle of Man	1856–1897	Lead, Silver, Zinc	(historical documentary reference) A Manx lead-zinc-silver mine on the mineralised belt that runs through the Manx Slates, where the ore is carried in steep veins — the deposit type described in this record's geology.
Oatfield Mine	Cornwall	By 1825 (newspaper notice); worked in the 1840s–Absorbed into Crenver & Wheal Abraham c. 1864	Copper	(historical documentary reference) Mindat records the mine as working the eastern extensions of the Crenver and Wheal Abraham copper lodes.
Odin Mine	Derbyshire	1280 (documented)–1869	Lead, Barite, Fluorspar, Calcite	(well documented example) The record describes Odin working lead-bearing veins in a limestone gorge at the foot of Mam Tor, the gorge itself being the opencast trace of the vein before the mine followed it underground.
Old Gang Mines	North Yorkshire	18th century–1899-1903	Lead	(well documented example) The mine's own recorded geology explicitly describes working lead-bearing veins.
Parc Mine	Conwy	1855–1963	Lead, Zinc	(well documented example) Parc worked three named lodes — the north–south Gors and Fucheslas and the north-east-striking Principal — and its whole underground layout follows them: adits driven along the Gors, stopes 150 ft high along the Principal, and the workings bounded to the east by the Shale Vein fault zone.
Parys Mountain	Anglesey	Bronze Age–1904	Copper, Lead, Silver, Zinc, Gold	(well documented example) This record's own history names specific lodes, including the exceptionally rich vein struck near the Golden Venture shaft in 1768 and the Carreg Y Doll lode reached at the 90-fathom level — direct textual matches.
Penberthy Croft Mine	Cornwall	1798–Late 1840s, with a further phase 1881-83	Tin, Copper, Arsenic, Lead	(well documented example) The mine worked the east-west Main Lode with the Longdose and Canant lodes branching from its footwall and hangingwall, followed about 3 km in total.
Penhalls Mine	Cornwall	Worked by 1834; amalgamated setts–1884 (independent working); 1930 (as Penhalls United)	Tin, Copper	(well documented example) Penhalls worked tin and copper lodes of the Cornubian orefield running out towards the cliffs at St Agnes, the shafts sunk on the lodes rather than through barren ground.
Pennerley Mine	Shropshire	worked by the 18th century; main phase from 1879-80–1884 (main lead working); baryte worked to 1925	Lead, Barite	(well documented example) The mine's own recorded geology explicitly describes working lead veins.
Plynlimmon Mine	Ceredigion	Worked from 1867–1897	Lead	(well documented example) The mine followed the Main Lode east from the adit for 155 fathoms, with a separate North Lode recorded upstream of the dam.
Poldice Mine	Cornwall	by 1512 (documented); certainly worked by the 17th century–1930	Copper, Tin, Arsenic	(well documented example) The mine's own recorded geology explicitly describes working copper and tin lodes.
Potts Ghyll Mine	Cumbria	1844–Working into the 1940s	Barite	(well documented example) Barytes lodes running east-west across the fell and cutting the older copper and lead veins — a vein deposit whose cross-cutting relationship is itself part of this record's geology.
Priddy (St Cuthbert's) Lead Works	Somerset	AD 49 (Roman)–1908	Lead, Silver	(well documented example) The mine's own recorded geology explicitly describes working lead veins.
Rampgill Mine	Cumbria	1690 (Rampgill Vein discovered)–1949 (Vieille Montagne); some later 20th-century working	Lead, Zinc	(well documented example) The mine's own recorded geology explicitly describes working the Rampgill Vein.
Rodderup Fell Mine	Cumbria	Levels driven from about 1800–Underground lead working ceased 1948	Lead, Fluorspar	(well documented example) A North Pennine mine driven at three horizons to cut named near-vertical veins through the Carboniferous sequence, paying best where a vein crossed a competent limestone — the deposit type this record's geology sets out in detail.
Roman Gravels Mine	Shropshire	worked in the Roman period (c. AD 120)–1895	Lead	(well documented example) The mine's own recorded geology explicitly describes working lead veins.
Rookhope (Boltsburn Mine)	County Durham	early 19th century–1931	Lead, Fluorspar	(well documented example) The mine followed the north-east trending Boltsburn Vein, in the fluorite-rich central zone of the Northern Pennine Orefield.
Roughton Gill Mine	Cumbria	12th century (earliest possible); documented from 1564–17th century (main German-era working); reworked later	Copper, Silver, Zinc, Barite, Lead	(well documented example) The mine's own recorded geology explicitly describes working copper- and lead-bearing veins.
Ruthwaite Mine	Cumbria	Exploring in 1910–Returned to 1925; no closure date located	Barite	(well documented example) The Cumbria Industrial History Society lists Ruthwaite among the mines where barytes was present as a vein ore and worked as a commercial mineral.
Silver Gill Mine	Cumbria	worked 1020-1200 (archaeologically dated); documented from 1331–worked into the Elizabethan period; final closure date unrecorded	Lead, Copper, Silver	(well documented example) The mine's own recorded geology explicitly describes working lead-, copper- and silver-bearing veins.
Sir Francis Level (Lownathwaite Mine)	North Yorkshire	1864–1882	Lead	(well documented example) The mine's own recorded geology explicitly describes driving to reach the Fairfold Vein.
Snaefell Mine	Isle of Man	1856–1908	Zinc, Lead, Silver	(well documented example) The mine worked zinc-lead-silver veins on the slopes of Snaefell Mountain, part of the same Manx mineralised belt as Laxey and Foxdale.
Snailbeach Mine	Shropshire	1781–1955	Lead, Silver, Zinc, Barite, Fluorspar	(well documented example) The mine's own recorded history describes working a specific vein by name.
South Caradon Mine	Cornwall	1836 (main lode struck); trial working from 1833–1885	Copper	(well documented example) The mine's own recorded geology explicitly describes working copper lodes.
South Crofty	Cornwall	1592–1998	Tin, Copper	(well documented example) South Crofty's own geology text explicitly describes roughly 40 tin- and copper-bearing lodes beneath Camborne and Pool.
South Hooe Mine	Devon	13th century–1885	Lead, Silver	(well documented example) The mine's own recorded geology explicitly describes working silver-bearing lead lodes.
Speedwell Cavern	Derbyshire	1771–1790	Lead	(well documented example) The mine's own recorded geology explicitly describes working a lead-bearing vein.
St Peter's Mine	Northumberland	Vein discovered 1902–No reliable closure date has yet been located.	Lead, Fluorspar	(well documented example) The mine worked the St Peter's Vein, a lead vein in the North Pennine orefield carrying fluorite, quartz, chalcopyrite and siderite with the galena.
Stonecroft and Greyside Mine	Northumberland	1851–1898	Lead, Barite	(well documented example) The mine worked lead and barytes veins in the Carboniferous rocks west of Hexham, on the same belt as the Settlingstones barytes workings.
Stotsfield Burn Mine	County Durham	Developed from 1863–1966	Lead, Fluorspar	(well documented example) A Weardale mine on the Red Vein, working near-vertical veins through the Carboniferous sequence — and a clear case of the same vein yielding first lead and later fluorspar, as this record's geology describes.
Sun Hush Mine	North Yorkshire	Working by 1888–No reliable closure date has yet been located.	Lead	(historical documentary reference) A Swaledale lead working on near-vertical veins through the Carboniferous sequence, prospected by hushing where those veins outcrop on steep ground, as this record's geology describes.
Surrender Mine	North Yorkshire	before 1720–1880	Lead	(well documented example) The mine's own recorded geology explicitly describes working lead-bearing veins.
Talargoch Mine	Flintshire	documented from 1303; worked continuously from the 1630s–1884 (underground); tip-reworking to 1905	Lead, Zinc	(well documented example) The Talargoch veins are the mine's own worked deposit, explicitly described in the mine's geology field.
Tankerville Mine	Shropshire	small-scale working from the early 19th century–May 1884 (main); failed reopenings 1891-93, 1911-13	Lead, Silver, Zinc, Barite	(well documented example) The mine's own recorded geology explicitly describes working the richest lead vein in Shropshire.
Threlkeld Quarry and Mine	Cumbria	1870–1982	Granite, Lead, Zinc, Barite	(well documented example) The lead and zinc at Gategill and Woodend came from epigenetic mineral veins cutting the Lower Palaeozoic rocks of Blencathra — galena and sphalerite in a quartz, baryte, calcite and dolomite gangue — and the workings follow the vein, including an opencut along it where it crosses the fellside.
Tilberthwaite	Cumbria	worked from the late 16th/early 17th century (Elizabethan)–copper mining ceased 1942; slate quarrying continued intermittently to 2001	Copper, Lead, Slate	(well documented example) The mine's own recorded geology explicitly describes the mine's mineralisation.
Tincroft Mine	Cornwall	known by 1680s (as Penhallick Vean & Tyn Croft); tin production from 1865–1921 (South Tincroft)	Copper, Tin	(well documented example) The mine's own recorded geology explicitly describes working copper and tin lodes.
Tregurtha Downs Mine	Cornwall	Engine first fired 27 March 1883–No reliable final closure date has yet been located.	Tin	(well documented example) The mine worked tin lodes in the ground between Marazion and Goldsithney at the eastern end of the Land's End granite's aureole.
Tresavean Mine	Cornwall	1737–1928	Copper, Tin, Arsenic	(well documented example) The mine's own recorded geology explicitly describes working copper- and tin-bearing lodes.
Tyndrum Mines	Stirling	1741 (vein discovered)–1926	Lead, Silver, Zinc	(well documented example) The mine's own recorded geology explicitly describes working the Hard Vein and other lead- and zinc-bearing veins.
Van Mine	Powys	1862–1922	Lead, Silver, Zinc, Barite	(well documented example) The mine's own recorded history describes working a specific lode by name.
Ventonwyn Mine	Cornwall	By 1889–c. 1907 (independently); 1913 (with Great Dowgas)	Tin	(well documented example) Worked the western extension of the Great Hewas tin lodes; the neighbouring Great Dowgas developed five parallel south-east-trending lodes.
Vitifer Mine (Birch Tor and Vitifer)	Devon	documented from 1750 (Vitifer); 1757 (Birch Tor)–1925	Tin	(well documented example) The mine's own recorded geology explicitly describes working tin-bearing veins.
Wanlockhead	Dumfries and Galloway	13th century–1934	Lead, Copper, Silver, Zinc, Gold	(well documented example) The record describes roughly seventy lead veins in the Lowther Hills around the village, and the surviving plans are longitudinal sections of individual veins — Margaret's, Belton Grain, Cove, Lochnell, New Glencrieff — which is how the field was worked.
Water House Mine	Northumberland	In the returns from 1882–No reliable closure date has yet been located.	Lead, Umber	(well documented example) The mine worked lead veins on the northern edge of the North Pennine orefield west of Hexham, with umber dug from weathered iron-bearing ground alongside them.
Wenvoe Iron Mine	Vale of Glamorgan	Working by 1859–Last recorded working 1919	Iron	(historical documentary reference) A haematite working in the Carboniferous limestone ridge of the eastern Vale of Glamorgan, outside the main Llanharry to Taff's Well ore belt, as this record's geology describes.
West Tolgus Mine	Cornwall	By the 1720s–February 1884	Copper	(historical documentary reference) The record places the mine in the Redruth district of the Cornubian orefield working copper ore; the individual lodes are not named in any source located, so the link is at district level.
Wheal Agar	Cornwall	By 1883–No reliable closure date has yet been located.	Copper, Tin, Arsenic	(well documented example) A single shaft following the lodes to 235 fathoms below adit, its inclination changing several times on the way down — the shape a steep irregular orebody forces on a mine.
Wheal Basset (Basset Mines)	Cornwall	worked from 1815 (as separate setts); Basset Mines company formed 1896–1918	Tin, Copper	(well documented example) The mine's own recorded geology explicitly describes working the Great Flat Lode and older copper lodes.
Wheal Buller	Cornwall	worked from 1819–1875 (main); failed reworking 1928-1930	Copper, Tin	(well documented example) The mine's own recorded geology explicitly describes working copper and tin lodes.
Wheal Busy	Cornwall	16th century (earliest working); 1720s (copper production)–1924	Copper, Tin, Arsenic	(well documented example) The record describes the mine working the lode system north of the Carnon valley that runs through the Gwennap and Chacewater copper ground.
Wheal Coates	Cornwall	1802–1914	Tin, Copper	(well documented example) The record describes Wheal Coates as working tin-bearing lodes in the St Agnes district, with a lode exposed in the cliff face beside the workings — a straightforward vein/lode deposit followed underground and out beneath the sea.
Wheal Edward	Cornwall	worked from 1821 (first returns); reopened 1863–1893	Copper, Tin, Uranium	(well documented example) The mine's own recorded geology explicitly describes working copper and tin lodes.
Wheal Fortune	Cornwall	1855–1912	Tin, Copper, Arsenic, Tungsten, Zinc	(well documented example) Five named lodes (Carnmeal, Blueburrow, Copper, Main, New) were worked here, per the mine's own workings/history fields.
Wheal Friendship	Devon	late 18th century–1925 (surface tribute working to the 1950s)	Copper, Tin, Arsenic, Lead	(well documented example) The mine's own recorded geology explicitly describes working copper, tin and arsenic-bearing lodes.
Wheal Grambler	Cornwall	By 1792, as East Wheal Sparnon–1893, as St Aubyn United Mines	Copper, Tin, Fluorspar	(well documented example) Ten named shafts and four lodes were worked at this mine, including the eastern extension of the Sparnon lode.
Wheal Grenville	Cornwall	1820s (initial working); productive from 1850s; formal lease 1845–1920	Tin, Copper	(well documented example) The mine's own recorded geology explicitly describes working the Great Flat Lode.
Wheal Jane	Cornwall	1861–1991	Tin, Copper, Arsenic, Lead, Silver, Zinc	(well documented example) The record describes Wheal Jane working polymetallic lodes in the Carnon Valley for tin, copper, lead, silver and zinc — a vein/lode deposit, and the reason the modern mine was laid out to follow several separate lodes rather than a single body.
Wheal Kitty	Cornwall	documented from 1758; consistently worked from 1834–1930	Tin, Copper, Iron	(well documented example) The mine's own recorded geology explicitly describes working mineral lodes.
Wheal Maid	Cornwall	1782–1870s (mine); site used as a tailings dam 1970s-1980s	Copper, Tin, Arsenic	(well documented example) The mine's own recorded geology explicitly describes working copper lodes.
Wheal Mary Ann	Cornwall	1845–c. 1875	Lead, Silver, Fluorspar	(well documented example) Described in section by Le Neve Foster (1874) as a steeply east-dipping fissure vein, 0-3ft wide between killas walls, disturbed and cut off southward by a band of 'slidy' ground comparable to that in the Herodsfoot lode.
Wheal Owles	Cornwall	c. 1830–1893	Tin, Copper	(well documented example) Wheal Owles worked tin-bearing lodes of the Cornubian orefield at St Just, principally the Cargodna lode, with bismuth and uranium ores and argentiferous galena recorded in cross-veins — and it was the pursuit of a lode towards the abandoned, water-filled Wheal Drea workings that caused the 1893 disaster.
Wheal Peevor	Cornwall	sett granted c. 1701; worked from the mid-18th century–1889 (main closure); reopening attempts 1911-18, 1938, 1950s all failed	Tin, Copper, Tungsten	(well documented example) The mine's own recorded geology explicitly describes working copper and tin lodes.
Wheal Prosper	Cornwall	circa 1860–1866	Copper, Tin	(well documented example) The mine's own recorded geology explicitly describes working the Porthcew lode.
Wheal Trewavas	Cornwall	by 1834–1846	Copper	(well documented example) The mine's own recorded geology explicitly describes working four copper lodes.
Wheal Uny	Cornwall	worked from c. 1800–1893	Copper, Tin	(well documented example) The mine's own recorded geology explicitly describes working copper and tin lodes.
Wheal Vor	Cornwall	underground working from the 15th century–1911 (last major working); abandoned by 1967	Tin, Copper	(well documented example) The mine's own recorded geology explicitly describes working lodes, including a notably rich lode struck at the 274-fathom level.
White Grit Mine	Shropshire	old workings recorded 1678; main periods 1830-1848–c. 1870	Lead	(well documented example) The mine's own recorded geology explicitly describes working lead veins.
Whiteside Mine	North Yorkshire	Working by 1888–No reliable closure date has yet been located.	Lead	(historical documentary reference) A Swaledale mine on the named Grinton How Vein, cutting the Yoredale sequence of alternating limestones, shales and sandstones — the vein deposit this record's geology describes.
Wolfcleugh Mine	County Durham	Worked by the Beaumonts from 1818–Abandoned 1912; further attempt 1946	Lead, Fluorspar	(historical documentary reference) A Weardale mine on near-vertical veins through the Carboniferous sequence, whose output shifted from the galena in the vein to the fluorspar around it as the value of the two reversed — the deposit type this record's geology describes.
Woodhead Mine	Dumfries and Galloway	1838–1873	Lead, Silver	(well documented example) The mine's own recorded geology explicitly describes working a lead vein.

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