| P number: | P528084 |
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| Caption: | Map showing the barytes and other mineral veins of the Muirkirk district of Ayrshire and Lanarkshire. |
| Description: | There are about eighty occurrences of barytes in a seven mile radius of Muirkirk. Usually the barytes occurs alone though in ten instances it is associated with haematite, with galena (lead ore) in six instances, zinc-blende in four instances and manganese oxide in three instances. The haematite forms ramifying veins in the barytes and is of a later date. The veins are roughly concentrated in five areas. 1. In the area of the Pennel and Wyndy Burns six miles west of Muirkirk there are two small veins approaching one foot. 2. The Gass Water area where the veins were of great economic importance. 3. Small veins not more than eight inches at Guelt Water, Shiel Burn and Polwhannan Burn. 4. A few veins not more than nine inches wide between Greenock Water and the Posnek Burn. 5.The area between Meikle Auchinstilloch and Nutberry Hill has a number of veins up to six feet wide, some of these veins carry a little galena and zinc blende. Most of the baryte veins occur in Silurian or Lower and Upper Old Red Sandstone strata and the lower part of the Carboniferous Cementstones Group. |
| Date taken: | Sun Jun 25 00:00:00 GMT 1905 |
| Photographer: | Unknown |
| Copyright statement: | Unknown |
| Orientation: | Portrait |
| Size: | 477.66 KB; 972 x 1000 pixels; 82 x 85 mm (print at 300 DPI); 257 x 265 mm (screen at 96 DPI); |
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