Golconda Mine


Lead and Barytes Mine

Jan 1st, 2024 from Peak by Buddle-Bot


Peak District
Brassington
53.092522, -1.629129
SK 2493 5510
Private Land
350m
150m
#3,289

110m engine shaft.

Key or code. Access rarely given.

Publications (31)

  • (1922); BGS - Mineral Resources of GB (c1920s) Vol XXVI - Lead & Zinc Ores or Durham, Yorkshire & Derbyshire; 126 pages
  • (1960); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 01-2 May - Water Grove Mine, Merline Mine, Golconda, Edwen Valley, Matlock Math, Ecton Mines; 22 pages
  • (2000); BGS - Minerals in Britain - Baryte; 6 pages
  • Barker, I., Beck, J.S. (2010); DCA; Caves of the Peak District; pp. 151
  • 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 Rieuwerts, Jim and Haddon Thomas, Gareth (1997); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 13-4 Win - Early Use of Gunpowder in the Peak District - Stone Quarry Mine and Dutchman Level, Ecton, Staffordshire; 20 pages (24-43)
  • Cook, Alan F. (2013); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 18-5 Sum - Purley Chase Manganese Mine; 9 pages (1-9)
  • Flindall, Roger and Hayes, Andrew (1975); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 06-2 Oct - Notes on some Early Techniques used in Derbyshire Lead Mining; 3 pages (93-95)
  • Ford T.D., Rieuwerts J.H.; PDMHS (2000); Lead Mining in the Peak District; pp. 167
  • Ford, Trevor D. (2001); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 14-5 Sum - Derbyshire Wad and Umber; 7 pages (39-45)
  • Ford, Trevor D. (2001); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 14-6 Win - Geology of the Matlock Mines - A Review, The; 32 pages (1-32)
  • Ford, Trevor D. (2003); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 15-3 Sum - Iron Mining in the Peak District; 7 pages (8-14)
  • Ford, Trevor D. (2013); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 18-5 Sum - Chromite Ore Crusher in the Shetland Isles, A; 3 pages (7-9)
  • Ford, Trevor D. and Jones, John A. (2007); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 16-5 Sum - Geological Setting of the Mineral Deposits at Brassington and Carsington; 23 pages (1-23)
  • 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)
  • Gould, Robert (1978); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 07-1 May - Capital Formation in the Wirksworth Lead Mining Industry - Part 2; 7 pages (21-27)
  • Gould, Robert (1978); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 07-2 Oct - Visit to Blobber Mine, Wirksworth, in the 1920s, A; 3 pages (93-95)
  • Pearce, Adrian (1978); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 07-2 Oct - Extravaganza or Introductory Weekend 29 April to 1 May 1978, The; 6 pages (99-104)
  • Quirk, David G. (1993); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 12-1 - Origin of the Peak District Orefield; 12 pages (4-15)
  • Rieuwerts, J.H. (1980); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 07-5 - Earliest Lead-Mine Soughs in Derbyshire, The; 74 pages (241-314)
  • Rieuwerts, J.H. (1983); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 08-5 Sum - Cromford Sough and the Early Use of Gunpowder; 16 pages (315-330)
  • Riley, Peter (1977); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 06-5 May - Peak District Mine Names - A Preliminary Survey; 8 pages (241-248)
  • Robey, John A. (1969); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 04-1 - Early Mining Techniques in the Peak District; 3 pages (49-51)
  • Slack R. (1983); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 08-5 Sum - The Slack Family - Brassington Lead Miners, The; 14 pages (301-314)
  • Slack, R. (1987); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 10-1 - Great Rake Mine in the 1920's - Recalled by Joe Gould; 2 pages (13-14)
  • Slack, Ron (1999); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 14-2 Win - Later Gells and the Decline of the Lead Trade, The; 6 pages (9-14)
  • Slack, Ron (2003); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 15-3 Sum - Miners' Tale - Golconda (Derbyshire) 1916 to 1957, The; 7 pages (1-7)
  • Slack, Ron (2004); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 15-6 Win - Women and the Lead Trade in Wirksworth, Derbyshire; 3 pages (46-48)
  • Walters, S.G. and Ineson, P.R. (1980); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 07-6 Aut - Mineralization within the Igneous Rocks of the South Pennine Orefield; 11 pages (315-325)
  • Willies, Lynn (1999); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 14-2 Win - Derbyshire Lead Mining in the 18th and 19th Centuries; 3 pages (31-33)

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