Whitesmith Mine [1]

Mine marked as a line of shafts along an open-cut, south of Meall a’Ghriuth and Beinn Ruighe Raonuill. The spoil heap is still clearly visible on the downhill slope south of the open-cut. The coordinates given would seem to be for the furthest west of the main mine shafts west of Ruighe Raonuill although an air shaft is marked further west and an adit or gallery some distance uphill to the north-west.

The Whitesmith Mines appear to have been encroached on by the later development of the Middleshope Mines which originally began downslope to the south-east. It may now be impossible to tell which of the shafts in the cental area belonged to the Whitesmith Mine and which belonged to the Middleshope Mine (which seems to include much of the 1980s barite extraction).