| P number: | P527853 |
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| Caption: | Limestone from Newbigging Mine, Nine Lums, Burntisland, Fifeshire. |
| Description: | Dull fawn-grey limestone containing a few black bodies and laminated locally by indefinite dark brown laminae. The specimen belongs to the Burdiehouse Limestone, 'Middle Bed' of the Oil Shale Group of Carboniferous age. BGS Sample SL 218. British Geological Survey Petrology Collection sample number MC 7629. The limestone of the 'Middle Bed' is four feet thick and after analysis it has been found to contain calcium carbonate 53.87 per cent; magnesium carbonate 0.77 per cent; iron as iron oxide 0.87 per cent; and insoluble residue at 1.11 per cent. Exploitation was entirely by mining, the workings being approached from Nine Lums by a level cross-cut mine which intersects the limestone about 200 yards north of the old quarries. The mouth of the mine was on the Aberdour-Burntisland road and near the main L. & N.E. railway-line. |
| Date taken: | Sun Jun 25 00:00:00 GMT 1905 |
| Photographer: | Unknown |
| Copyright statement: | Unknown |
| Orientation: | Landscape |
| Size: | 206.97 KB; 1000 x 665 pixels; 85 x 56 mm (print at 300 DPI); 265 x 176 mm (screen at 96 DPI); |
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