	Carricks (Iron Ore)	Index	Carricks (Iron Ore)

Carricks (Iron Ore)

Location:	Ireshopeburn, Weardale 10½ miles [17 km] ESE of Alston
Map Ref:	(Sheet 91, 92) NY861379, 54° 44' 10" N, 2° 12' 54" W
Opened:
Closed:	May 1949
Pits:	Shaft details for Carricks (Iron Ore)
Owners:	1890s - Weardale Iron Co. Ltd.
	1900s - Weardale Steel, Coal & Coke Co. Ltd.
Output:	1888 - Iron Ore.
	1890 - Iron Ore.
	1894 - Iron Ore.
	1896 - Iron Ore.
	1900 - Iron Ore.
	1902 - Iron Ore.
	1905 - Iron ore.
	1910 - Iron ore.
	1915 - Lead and iron ores.
	1921 - Lead Ore, Iron Ore.
	1923 - Lead Ore, Iron Ore.
	1924 - Lead Ore, Iron Ore.
	1925 - Lead Ore, Iron Ore.
	1945 - Iron Ore.
	1950 - Iron Ore.
	Detailed Mineral Statistics for Carricks (Iron Ore)
Employment:	1888 - 0 [Standing]
	1894 - 11 (9 below, 2 surface)
	1896 - 67 (55 below, 12 surface)
	1900 - 61 (50 below, 11 surface)
	1902 - 60 (50 below, 10 surface)
	1905 - 30 (25 below, 5 surface)
	1910 - 1
	1915 - 41 (26 below, 15 surface)
	1921 - 2 (1 below, 1 surface) [Not worked]
	1923 - 2 [Not worked since 1920]
	1924 - 0 [Not worked since 1920]
	1925 - 0 [Not worked since 1920]
	1945 - 59 (37 below, 22 surface)
	1950 - 0 [Abandoned 5/49]
	Colliery Management (prior to 1970)
	Catalogue of plans of abandoned mines for Carricks (Iron Ore)
Notes:	1949, May - Abandoned
	Miscellaneous Notes and Incidents for Carricks (Iron Ore)

Description

Disasters (5 or more killed)

None Found

Names of those killed at this colliery

Please note that this collection of names is by no means complete!

						Fairless, Hugh, 25 Nov 1895, (accident: 15 Nov 1895), aged 27, Miner, while putting a tub of ironstone out-bye he got his little finger crushed between a prop and the tub, and died from blood poisoning on the 25th inst.
						Hodgson, Thomas, 15 Nov 1894, 1:00 p.m., 6th hour of shift, aged 48, Miner, Fall of ironstone from the roof [More information ...]
						Robinson, George, 20 Jun 1902, aged 39, Miner, a lump of ore fell out of roof and caught and killed him
						Thompson, William, 08 Jan 1906, aged 50, Miner, Died from natural causes as he was about to enter the mine [fatality reported during the year but not classified as a reportable accident]
						Wilkinson, Thomas, 07 Jul 1909, aged 67, Mine-foreman, Killed by debris projected by a shot

						5 names found

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Credits

Sources:

1888 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1890 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1894 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1894 Mines Inspectors Report (C 7667), Durham District (No. 4) by Thomas Bell, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
1895 Mines Inspectors Report (C 8074), Durham District (No. 4) by Thomas Bell, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
1896 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department, also available online at Peak District Mines Historical Society Ltd
1900 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1902 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1902 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 1590), Durham District (No. 4) by R. Donald Bain, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
1905 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1906 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 3449), Durham District (No. 4) by R. Donald Bain, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
1909 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 5177), Durham District (No. 4) by R. Donald Bain, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
1910 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1915 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1921 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1923 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1924 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1925 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1945 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1950 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
An Account of the strata of Northumberland & Durham as proved by Borings & Sinkings, Supplement, published by the North of England Institute of Mining & Mechanical Engineers, 1910