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Scots Mining Company

The company that worked the Hopetoun family's Leadhills mineral leases from the 1730s, notable for appointing the mathematician James Stirling as managing agent in 1734 and for early welfare provisions for its miners.

Mines operated

MineRegionYears
Leadhills South Lanarkshire 1734–?
Susanna Mine South Lanarkshire ?–?
Tyndrum Mines Stirling 1768–1791

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