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The area between Leadhills and Wanlockhead was the richest lead mining district in Scotland. [5]The Leadhills concession was obtained from the Earl of Hopetoun [6] on whose land a significant deposits of lead and silver had been mined since 1513, [7] and a limited gold mining operation had begun in 1517.
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British Coalfields. The Midlothian Coalfield is a coalfield in southeast Scotland situated immediately to the east and southeast of Edinburgh.It is geologically continuous with the East Fife Coalfield beneath the Firth of Forth though the undersea coal reserves have only been partly exploited.
A short guide to Scottish law, the Discours Particulier D'Escosse, written in French by John Bellenden and James MacGill in 1559, explains that the profits from gold mines and silver mines in Scotland, and the royal mint, were understood to belong to the crown, and a proportionate tax was levied. Lead had a different legal status, but because ...
The Longannet power station near Kincardine used to source much of its coal from nearby pits but the Longannet coal mine closed after severe flooding in 2002, an event which more or less marked the end of deep mining in Fife and indeed Scotland. Opencasting in Fife was severely reduced after the premature closure of the power station.