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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… coal, of which extensive mines are in operation; and lead-ore appears to have been wrought at a very early period. At … his spade against a large mass of rock containing lead-ore, within a few feet of the surface; a mine was immediately …
A History of the County of Stafford
… concerned with iron—both with getting and smelting the ore and with working the iron into a wide range of … did not survive the exhaustion of the local coal and iron ore later in the century. The metal trades. The first …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… when the Westbury Iron Co. was formed to exploit the iron ore beds to the north of the town, discovered over ten years … the cutting for the railway line was being made. 50 The ore was worked by open-cast methods, and furnaces were built …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… a chain of lakes and ponds formed by the waterfilled iron-ore workings abandoned after the First World War. 25 The only …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… in the hills above Staveley, and large loose masses of ore have been found in different other situations: a very …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire
… The adjoining lands are thickly strewn with scoria of iron ore, some of considerable size; these, indeed, are scattered … a Roman Birmingham cannot be doubted, from the cinders of ore, which now remain. . . . Upon digging, the foundations of …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… yearly profit of 30,000 to the Duke of Devonshire; but the ore becoming scarce, it was given up by his grace some time …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… it from other forms such as CINNABAR (the most important ore of mercury) or MERCURY PRECIPITATE, both of which were …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… In the Great Doward Hill are large deposits of rich iron-ore of a peculiar quality, belonging to R. Blakemore, Esq., …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… sloping over the quays. A quantity of a very rich iron-ore is sent from the mines here to the iron-works in South …