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	Goldmire Quarry	Index	Goldmire Quarry

Location:	Barrow 3½ miles [5 km] NNE of Barrow-in-Furness
Map Ref:	(Sheet 96) SD220749, 54° 9' 50" N, 3° 11' 41" W
Opened:
Closed:
Owners:	1920s - Millom & Askam Hematite Iron Co. Ltd.
	1980s - Kingston Minerals Ltd.
Output:	1896 - Limestone.
	1897 - Limestone.
	1905 - Limestone.
	1922 - Limestone.
	1984 - Limestone.
Employment:	1896 - 30 (29 below, 1 surface)
	1897 - 30 (27 below, 3 surface)
	1905 - 15 (11 below, 4 surface)
	1922 - 5 (4 below, 1 surface)
Notes:	Miscellaneous Notes and Incidents for Goldmire Quarry

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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!

						Alexander, Samuel, 19 Sep 1949, aged 39, Faceman, fell to his death from the face of the quarry; address: 4, Furnace-place, Askam, Buried: St Peter's Church, Ireleth, Cumbria
						Coward, John, 1895, aged 10, [Not Employed], he and other boys were playing with the empty bogies after work had ceased for the day, when he appears to have slipped and have fallen on the rail, and one of the bogies passed over his head, none of the boys were employed at the quarry, but deceased was son of the foreman [not classified as a reportable accident]
						2 names found

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Collieries and Pits within 5 miles (8km)

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