Memoirs of the Geological Survey of the United Kingdom ... Mining Records. Mineral Statistics of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and IrelandH.M. Stationery Office, 1862 - Mines and mineral resources |
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Anthracite Bilston blast in District BRECKNOCKSHIRE British Brown Hæmatite Cardiff Carn Brea Clay Coal Field Coals COALS and COKE Coke Consett Copper CORNWALL Crawshay Crinnis CUMBERLAND cwts DARLINGTON DISTRICT DENBIGHSHIRE DERBYSHIRE Durham and Northumberland East Huel Ebbw Vale FOREIGN AND COLONIAL FOREIGN COUNTRIES Furnaces Furnaces built FURNACES IN BLAST GLAMORGANSHIRE Glasgow Hartlepool Hill Huel Huel Basset Huel Jane Huel Seton Hull Inspection District Iron Company LANCASHIRE Leeds Llanelly Maryport Messrs Middlesbro Miners MONTHLY RETURN Moor Names of Mines NEWCASTLE DISTRICT North Huel NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE North-Eastern Railway NORTHUMBERLAND Number of Collieries NUMBER OF FURNACES Park PEMBROKESHIRE PIG IRON RAILWAY DISTRIBUTION RETURN of COALS SCOTLAND shipped SHROPSHIRE Sons Ditto South Huel SOUTH WALES Stannary Court Stockton SUMMARY Sunderland Sundry Swansea Tallington Tolgus TOTAL NUMBER Total of Lead Total of Silver Total Produce Total Quantity Total Tons Treskerby UNITED KINGDOM unwrought West Huel Whitehaven William YORKSHIRE Zinc وو
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Page 94 - Coal .... The quantity of Coke carried over the North-Eastern Railway for local consumption and land sale between Kelso and Berwick in the North, Carlisle and Tebay in the West, and...
Page 99 - The quantity of COAL carried over the North-eastern Railway from Yorkshire and Lancashire Collieries for consumption at places on the North-eastern Railway Do.
Page 83 - Name of Works. Name of Firm. Nearest Port or Railway Station. No. of Puddling Furnaces. No. Of Rolling Mill«.
Page viii - The rate of exhaustion which is going on over our Coal fields still increases. From 3,052 Collieries there was used and sold in 1861 — 83,635,214 tons. Two millions and a half tons were wasted in the process of working, and burnt at surface on the Collieries of Durham and Northumberland only. The total waste must, therefore, have been very large, although information thereof could not be correctly obtained.
Page 94 - Railway in 1867 for local consumption and land sale from the Durham and Northumberland Coal Fields, and which was distributed over the districts Berwick and Kelso in the north, Carlisle and Tebay in the west, and Leeds...
Page 53 - Total 8025 8088 3180 3263 IRON ORE PRODUCE. — The following summary is as closely correct as it is possible to obtain it; and, together with the details which follow, represent very closely the value of the iron ores raised in the United Kingdom. It must be understood, however, that this summary gives the total i "i lirris received.
Page 72 - Furnace in blast to the beginning of September. j 1 Hot blast during the year, the 2d hot blast for 37 weeks, and cold blast for 15 weeks. § 1 Furnace in blast 8 months only. PIG IRON. Total Produce of DERBYSHIRE - 129,715 Tons. No Names of Works.
Page viii - From 3052 collieries, there was used and sold in 1861, 83,635,214 tons. Two millions and a half tons were wasted in the process of working and burned at surface on the collieries of Durham and Northumberland alone. The total waste must therefore have been very large, although information thereof could not be correctly obtained." There is also a large waste in the actual consumption of coal in this country for domestic purposes, not alluded to by Mr. Hunt, that is not likely to diminish so long as...
Page 66 - The total quantity of iron ore raised in the United Kingdom, as shown in the preceding returns, amounted to 10,064,800 tons; value, £3,367,144.
Page viii - ... wasted in the process of working, and burnt at surface on the Collieries of Durham and Northumberland only. The total waste must, therefore, have been very large, although information thereof could not be correctly obtained. GENERAL SUMMARY, OF WHICH RETURNS ARE GIVEN FOH 1861.