Milldam Mine


Lead, Barytes, and Fluorite Mine

Worked from 1985 to 2023

Jan 1st, 2024 from Unknown by Buddle-Bot


Peak District
Great Hucklow
53.29916, -1.73713
SK 1762 7806
Private Land
330m
#3,417

Originally worked for lead, closed in 1885. Reopened in 1985 for barytes and fluorite.

Publications (21)

  • (2013); Milldam Mine - Archaeological Survey ; 53 pages
  • (2014); Future Minerals Scenarios for the UK; 38 pages
  • Barnatt, John (2012); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 18-4 Win - Silence Mine, Grindlow; 55 pages (1-55)
  • Barnatt, John and Huston, Kieron and Mallon, Dave and Newman, Rebekah et al (2013); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 18-6 Win - The Lead Legacy - An Updated Inventory of Important Metal and Gangue Mining Sites in the Peak District, The; 112 pages (1-112)
  • Barnatt, John and Worthington, Terry (2009); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 17-3 Sum - Metal Mines through Time; 124 pages (1-124)
  • Bramley, J.V. (1991); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 11-3 Sum - Fluorspar Mining in Derbyshire; 6 pages (153-158)
  • Brown, Ivor J. (1969); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 04-1 - Mine Fatalities in the Derbyshire Metalliferous Mining Area, 1874 to 1939; 8 pages (59-66)
  • Burt, Roger and Atkinson, Michael (1976); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 06-3 Apr - Mineral Statistics, The; 4 pages (164-167)
  • Critchley, Martin F. (1977); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 06-5 May - Survey of Little Milldam Mine, Great Hucklow, A; 9 pages (191-199)
  • Doug Nash; Doug Nash Peak Book Book 4 - Merlin Mine to Peak United Mine; 343 pages
  • Ford, Trevor D. (2010); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 17-5 Sum - Geological Setting of the Lead Mines in the Northern Part of the White Peak, The; 48 pages (1-48)
  • Ford, Trevor D. (2012); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 18-3 Sum - Geology of Hucklow, Eyam, Stony Middleton & Longstone Edge; 22 pages (1-22)
  • Ford, Trevor D. and Sarjeant, William A.S. and Smith, Michael E. (1993); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 12-1 - Minerals of the Peak District of Derbyshire, The; 40 pages (16-55)
  • James, Jonathan Peter and Foster, Adrian (2001); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 14-5 Sum - Tramways and Locomotves at 20th Century Mines in the Peak District; 18 pages (58-75)
  • Kirkham, Nellie (1967); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 03-3 May - Ball Eye Mine and Sough, Cromford; 10 pages (165-174)
  • Kirkham, Nellie (1967); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 03-4 - Oakenedge, Streaks, and Watergrove Soughs; 22 pages (197-218)
  • Rieuwerts, J.H. (1984); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 09-2 Win - Derbyshire Lead Mining and Early Geological Concepts; 50 pages (51-100)
  • Rieuwerts, James H. (1966); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 03-1 Aug - List of Soughs of the Derbyshire Lead Mines; 42 pages (1-42)
  • Willies, Lynn (1982); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 08-3 Sum - John Fairburn - Stationer and Mining Entrepreneur; 7 pages (159-165)
  • Willies, Lynn (1986); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 09-5 Sum - Prosperity and Decline in Derbyshire Lead Mining; 32 pages (251-282)
  • Willies, Lynn (1988); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 10-3 - Working of the Derbyshire Lead Mining Customs in the 18th and 19th Centuries, The; 14 pages (146-159)

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