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***SWAAG_ID***	882
Date Entered	22/07/2015
Updated on	24/07/2015
Recorded by	Tim Laurie
Category	Mining Related
Record Type	Mining
Site Access	Public Access Land
Record Date	20/07/2015
Location	Satron Moor and Beazy Hill
Civil Parish	Grinton
Brit. National Grid	SD 946 946
Altitude	530m
Geology	Faulted Little and Red Beds mineralised limestones and cherts high above Oxnop Scar worked from shallow shafts on the line of the Satron Tarn String, the Simon Grooves String and the Beazy String. The shallow shaft mounds are visible as islands of calcareous grass within a pathless blanket peat moorland and water filled peat gutters. This Mining ground is described in detail in: Dunham and Wilson 1985: British Geological Survey Memoirs: 'Geology of the North Pennine Orefield.Volume 2. Stainmore to Craven, Chapter 11, pp167-170. HMSO.
Record Name	Lead mining remains on Satron Moor: Satron Tarn String, the Simon Grooves String and the Beazy String.
Record Description	These extensive lead mine operations are today visible as isolated shallow shaft mounds within an area of deep blanket peat. More concentrated mining remains are to be seen at Beazy Hill. Despite searching, no galena was visible in the dressing floors and the mine debris here was generally limonitised limestone with brown partly oxidised carbonate enclosing cerussite crystal-coated galena characteristic of flots. (Dunham and Wilson, 1985 p.167.)
Additional Notes	The brown mineral in photos 2 an3 below could be the brown mineral which BGS Memoir mentions 'limonitised limestone with brown, partly oxidised carbonate enclosing cerussite-coated crystals of galena' and also the presence of 'an unusual dense massive goethite on the Beazy String which Raistrick 1975 p.85 ascribes to replacement of massive iron carbonate,...or from oxidisation of pyrite.'
Image 1 ID	6286 Click image to enlarge
Image 1 Description	Isolated shaft mound within blanket peat
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Image 2 Description	The brown lead ore found at Beazy String is probably that described by Raistrick 1975, p.85 and in the BGS Memoir as: 'partly oxidised carbonate enclosing cerussite-coated crystals of galena' as seen at Simon Grooves'
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Image 3 Description	The lead ore as seen at Beazy String
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Image 4 Description	Wax Cap toadstool on mine debris.
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Image 5 Description	Water filled peat gutter despite the summer drought.
Image 6 ID	6291 Click image to enlarge
Image 6 Description	Distant glimpse of Summerlodge Tarn,
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Image 7 Description	Shaft Mound on Simon Grooves.
Image 8 ID	6293 Click image to enlarge
Image 8 Description	Bright lichen in mine debris,
Image 9 ID	6294 Click image to enlarge
Image 9 Description	Compound coral fossilised in limestone.
Image 10 ID	6296 Click image to enlarge
Image 10 Description	Beware! Recently collapsed peat in-filled mine shaft.
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Image 11 Description	Moss vegetation on the mine debris
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Image 12 Description	THe head of Beazy Hill lead mine area
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Image 13 Description	Scurvy grass (Cochlearia offinalis), a common metalophyte on lead mine debris.
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Image 14 Description	Round leaved sundew (Drosera rotundifolia) on wet peat
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Image 15 Description	Mine shaft, the uppermost of three isolated shafts on Beazy string.