Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Special Reports on the Mineral Resources of Great Britain, Vol. 25: Lead and Zinc Ores of Northumberland and Alston Moor
This Memoir deals with one of the oldest and most productive lead mining regions of Britain, including most of Alston Moor. Descriptions are given of many valuable fields, such as those of the Middle Tyne Valley, of which no account has been published hitherto.
The field work, almost wholly executed by Dr. Stanley Smith, was done in 1918, the office work and writing of the mss. Being completed in 1919. Most of the editorial work was done by Sir Aubrey Strahan previous. To, his retirement from the Survey in, 1920; it _has_been completed by Mr. Carruthers, who is also responsible for the short account of the South Tyne areas, finished in 1921, and for the Introduction.
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