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Lead mining in Scotland; Lingarabay; R. Raasay; S. Silver Glen; Stirling Sill; Strontian This page was last edited on 14 December 2017, at 06:52 (UTC). Text is ...
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 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. There were undersea workings extending from Prestonlinks Colliery.
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Geological Map of the Canonbie Coalfield. From Peach and Horne (1903) [1] The Canonbie Coalfield is a small and largely concealed coalfield at Canonbie in the south of Scotland. A comprehensive survey by Peach and Horne was published in 1903. [1] Canonbie colliery was worked until 1920, and another mine at Archerbeck continued until 1942. [2]
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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.
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.