Inside the Lochnell lead mine, Wanlockhead
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Inside the Lochnell lead mine, Wanlockhead
Image: © Jim Barton Taken: 18 Jun 2009
An informative tour of the mine is available via the Mining Museum. Visitors are taken along the roughly horizontal passage which followed the veins of lead ore (galena or lead sulphide) into the hill. At the farthest point on the tour, the surface is about 40m above. The mine was worked for 150 years from 1710 to 1860. The tour and the museum give a vivid impression of the hard life of the miners in those early days. (Lochnell Visitor Mine booklet, Wanlockhead Museum Trust 2004)
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