Copper mines in Cumbria

Commodity: Copper · Region: Cumbria

MineWorkedCommodities
Brandelhow Mine By 1560s–early 1891 Lead, Copper, Silver, Graphite
Brandy Gill Mine 1852 (uncertain)–1877 Lead, Copper
Carrock End Copper Mine About 1700–1869 Copper
Carrock Fell Mine 1854–1981 Tungsten, Copper, Arsenic, Lead
Coniston Copper Mines 1590s–early 20th century (residual activity to 1956) Copper
Dale Head Copper Mine from c. 1700 Copper
Driggith Mine 17th or 18th century–1940s Copper, Lead, Silver, Zinc, Barite
Goldscope Mine 1564–late 19th century Copper, Lead, Silver, Gold
Greenburn Mine From late 17th century–c. 1885 Copper
Long Work Copper Mine c. 1565–1922 Copper
Red Gill Mine from 19th century Lead, Copper
Roughton Gill Mine 12th century (earliest possible)–17th century Copper, Silver, Zinc, Barite, Lead
Sandbed Mine 18th century–1966 Lead, Copper, Zinc
Silver Gill Mine 1020-1200–Late Elizabethan period Lead, Copper, Silver
St Thomas' Work Copper Mine Late 16th century–Early 17th century Copper
Tilberthwaite worked from the late 16th/early 17th century (Elizabethan)–1942 (copper) Copper, Lead, Slate
Tynehead Mine 1854–1873 Lead, Copper

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