Old lead mine situated on banks of Englishman’s Burn, on the steep sides of the burn in Balloch Wood, about three-quarters of a mile upstream from Creetown. Little now to be seen.
Small vein striking a little north of west in greywackes of Silurian age was tried for lead ore between 1862 and 1864.
Produced 11.5 tons of ore between 1862 and 1864
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Publications (5)
- (1921); BGS - Mineral Resources of GB (c1920s) Vol XVII - Lead, Zinc, Copper and Nickel of Scotland; 180 pages
- Cannell, A E & M 1969 The Mines of South-west Scotland. NC&MRS Memoir; pp 73
- Foster-Smith, James R, 1967 The Non-Ferrous Metal Mines of South-west Scotland. NC&MRS Individual Survey Series Publication No 2; pp 73
- Landless, Jeremy G. (2014); Gazetteer of Metal Mines in Scotland, A; pp. 23
- Oldham, Tony (2005); Mines of SW Scotland; 43 pages