Roughtongill Mine (Lead Ore)

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Disasters (5 or more killed)

Names of those killed at this colliery

Collieries and Pits within 5 miles (8km)

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	Roughtongill Mine (Lead Ore)	Index	Roughtongill Mine (Lead Ore)

Location:	15 miles [24 km] SSW of Carlisle
Map Ref:	(Sheet 90) NY302345, 54° 42' 3" N, 3° 4' 58" W
Opened:
Closed:
Pits:	Level
	Level, locn: (Sheet 90) NY302343
	Level, locn: (Sheet 90) NY300342
	Level, locn: (Sheet 90) NY302342
	Level, locn: (Sheet 90) NY302341
	Level, locn: (Sheet 89, 90) NY298340
Owners:	1864 - Caldbeck Fells Consolidated Lead & Copper Mining Company (Limited)
Output:	1860 - Silver, Lead.
	1865 - Silver, Lead.
	1894 - Umber.
Employment:	1894 - 10 (2 below, 8 surface)

None found.

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Holmes, Zacchias, 21 Jun 1843, Miner, killed by a fall of stone

Newsham, William, 13 Jan 1873, Driver, crushed by a cart

2 names found

1894 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
Information supplied by West Cumbria Mines Research
Mineral Statistics for 1860 (Memoirs of the Geological Survey of Great Britain, and of the Museum of Practical Geology), compiled by Robert Hunt, F.R.S.
Mineral Statistics for 1865 (Memoirs of the Geological Survey of Great Britain, and of the Museum of Practical Geology), compiled by Robert Hunt, F.R.S.
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