for a few buffs who love our industrial past and heritage.
This is a untill recently working iron ore mine, that produced the highest grade hematite in the world, theirs samples of it in the national history museum.
it was worked on a small scale into the 2000s mainly for the pigment industry/makeup so i am told!
the last few men went home on a friday and that was it were told to not come back in, the plug was pulled. pumping was kept up for a few years but funding was pulled from that too and its now flooded upto the first ore level.
the old chap (now 84) said give it a week and i could have men back on the face most the electrics still work apart from the odd spark and bird nest.
and when they shut he said theirs still 40 or more years worth of ore in their.
Just a few snapshots of the place today in the sun.
the place is awash with history, even donkey jackets and boots in the locker room still hanging up
This is a untill recently working iron ore mine, that produced the highest grade hematite in the world, theirs samples of it in the national history museum.
it was worked on a small scale into the 2000s mainly for the pigment industry/makeup so i am told!
the last few men went home on a friday and that was it were told to not come back in, the plug was pulled. pumping was kept up for a few years but funding was pulled from that too and its now flooded upto the first ore level.
the old chap (now 84) said give it a week and i could have men back on the face most the electrics still work apart from the odd spark and bird nest.
and when they shut he said theirs still 40 or more years worth of ore in their.
Just a few snapshots of the place today in the sun.
the place is awash with history, even donkey jackets and boots in the locker room still hanging up