Mineral Statistics of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland ...H.M. Stationery Office, 1855 - Mines and mineral resources |
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Aberdare Anthracite Bagnall and Sons Bank Bilston blast in District Bolton Brandwood British Brothers Brought forward Butterley Butterley Company Cardiganshire Clay Coal Coal Company COAL FIELD Coleford Colliery Company Consols Copper Cornwall County Crawshay Cumberland cwts Darlington Denbighshire Derbyshire Devon DEVONSHIRE Ditto Durham Earl East Ebbw Vale Executors exported Field 99 Flintshire Furnaces in blast Gateshead Geological Glamorganshire Green 99 Hæmatite Haigh Hall Hill 99 Huel Iron Company Iron-works James James Dearden Jones Knowles Lancashire Lane 99 Leeds Limestone London Lord Ward Marley Hill Merry and Cunningham Merthyr Messrs MINERAL MINING RECORDS Monmouthshire Moor Name of Colliery Name of Quarry Neath Newcastle NORTHUMBERLAND Owner's Name Park PIG IRON Ports Price Robert Ruabon Sandstone SCOTLAND Shropshire Silver situated Staffordshire Swansea Taylor Thomas Thos Tipton Tons Total of Lead Total produce Trustees United Kingdom W. H. Sparrow West Huel Whitehaven Whitehouse William Wood Yorkshire
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Page xi - Zinc, while in 1855 we only sent out of the country 2,516 tons. I am enabled to refer with satisfaction to the present returns of Iron Pyrites, Arsenic, &c., which are far more exact than any which have hitherto been published. IRON. — The enormous increase which has taken place in our Iron Manufacture will be seen upon reference to the detailed statements. The returns of Iron Ore are far more complete than those which have been given in any former publication, and they may now be regarded as a...
Page i - Memoirs of the Geological Survey of Great Britain, and of the Museum of Practical Geology. Mining Records. Mineral Statistics of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland ( 1 855-82) . 9 IL Bell, The Iron Trade of the United Kingdom (1886), pp.
Page 45 - ... contains, and the large quantities sent thence to the South Staffordshire, and the North Welsh iron districts. No other known coal field contains anything like an equal number and extent of ironstone measures. From the Bassey Mine to the Knowles Mine, a series of measures at the Foley Colliery, Longton, of only 250 yards in thickness, there are nine distinct workable measures of ironstone. At Apedale, the Blackband, Red-shag, Bassey Mine, and Red Mine, ironstones are respectively 4, 6, 7, and...
Page vi - Statistics of British Commerce, 1852 34,000,000 TY Hall, " A treatise on the extent and probable duration of the Northern Coal-field, 1854 56,550,000 The same, quoting " a particularly careful writer on the subject of the Coal Trade...
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Page xii - ... porcelain and fine earthenware, it appears, at present, almost impossible to arrive at any approximation to the real value of this raw material. The value of the mineral productions of the United Kingdom has been estimated, in the following table, upon the principle of taking the mean average price of the substances at the mine, colliery, or quarry, before any charges for carriage have been made, or cost has been added 'in any way for manufacture.
Page 133 - ... possesses apparently inexhaustible quantities of alabaster in the red marl formation in the neighbourhood of Derby., where it has been worked for many centuries. The great bulk of it is used for making plaster of Paris, and as a manure, or as the basis of many kinds of cements. For these common industrial purposes it is worked by mining underground, and the stone is blasted by gunpowder ; but this shakes it so much as to render it unfit for works of ornament•, to procure blocks for which it...
Page 96 - The quantity of white salt manufactured from brine in the districts of Winsford and Northwich in 1855 was 834,514 tons ; and of rocksalt raised, 70,256 tons.
Page 1 - ... from which the whole of the tin used in commerce and the arts is obtained ; indeed, it may be said to be the only ore of this metal worked, tin pyrites being found only in such small quantity that, although it contains 25-65 per cent. of metallic tin, as an ore of tin, it is of no value commercially. The total quantity of tin ore (black tin) raised in Cornwall and Devonshire, from January to December inclusive, in 1855, was 8947 tons ; of this quantity Devonshire produced about 320 tons. The...