Located in the higher part of Rundale Beck, these mines were under the leases of the London Lead Companies and operated by the company for lead extraction from 1821 to 1873. Baryte production began in 1882 and lasted until 1897. In the 1980s, Sanbar Minerals worked on processing the dumps. Of the two mines, Dufton was the more productive, extracting from several veins with mineralization primarily in the form of small flats containing galena, baryte, and aragonite.
- 18xx-1883 London Lead Company
- 1884-1886 Dufton Fell Lead & Barytes Co.
- 1887-1893 Dufton Fell Lead & Barytes Co. Ltd
- 1894-1897 Dufton Mining Co.
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Publications (7)
- (1922); BGS - Mineral Resources of GB (c1920s) Vol II - Barytes and Witherite; 136 pages
- (1922); BGS - Mineral Resources of GB (c1920s) Vol XXVI - Lead & Zinc Ores or Durham, Yorkshire & Derbyshire; 126 pages
- (1988); CATMHS - Newsletter 021-October; 28 pages
- (1988); CATMHS - Newsletter 022-December; 30 pages
- (2003); CATMHS - Newsletter 070-February; 38 pages
- (2019); CATMHS - Newsletter 136-August; 40 pages
- Wallace, William (1890); AlstonMoor; Its Pastoral People Mines and Miners; 256 pages
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