On the Lead Veins in the Neighbourhood of Skipton
J. Ray Eddy · Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society · 1882
Before directing attention especially to the subject of my paper, it is due to the Members to explain that it was first proposed that the Lead Veins in the Grit-beds of Craven should be considered, but ultimately the veins described by the present title were preferred. This change practically leaves me a somewhat barren subject, because the Cononley Lead Mine has been entirely abandoned for several years in the eastern part, and almost so in the western, and it is the only place near Skipton, where the regular working of a vein has been carried on. A paper on the larger and much more interesting Mining field in Wharfedale may prove welcome on some future occasion when you may be inclined to extend your excursions to that district. The main vein is part of a large “fault,” the throw of which has never been truly ascertained by the miner, partly because the sides have been rarely seen, and further on account of the disturbed state of the strata where the walls of the vein have been proved. It is the most southern of all the lead producing districts of our county, removed some ten miles from the nearest mine, properly so called, and fourteen miles from those producing lead ore in the Grit-stone beds. These veins also proved the rare, perhaps the only exception in the investigations made by Mr. C. Moore, of Bath, which seems to establish the “existence of organic remains in the earthy matrix of mineral veins ...