| P number: | P000038 |
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| Old photograph number: | C02178 |
| Caption: | The Raasay Ironstone Mine. 1.6 km. east of Raasay House, Island of Raasay. Inverness-shire. Entrance of No. 1 Mine in Lower Jurassic (Upper Lias) Ironstone. |
| Description: | The Raasay Ironstone Mine. 1.6 km. east of Raasay House, Island of Raasay. Inverness-shire. Entrance of No. 1 Mine in Lower Jurassic (Upper Lias) Ironstone. The entrance, an adit, was driven over 300 metres in a north-easterly direction at a slope of 1 in 100. Several kilometres of narrow-gauge railway took the ore from the mine in hutches to the crusher and calcining kilns of the processing plant. A haulage cable runs over the hutch while an incomplete railway on an overbridge is seen in the foreground. William Baird and Company opened this iron ore mine just before the First World War. It was worked by British miners and German prisoners-of-war. |
| Date taken: | Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 GMT 1917 |
| Photographer: | Lunn, R. |
| Copyright statement: | Crown |
| Acknowledgment: | This image was digitized with grant-in-aid from SCRAN the Scottish Cultural Resources Access Network |
| X longitude/easting: | 156500 |
| Y latitude/northing: | 836500 |
| Coordinate reference system, ESPG code: | 27700 (OSGB 1936 / British National Grid) |
| Orientation: | Landscape |
| Size: | 347.97 KB; 1000 x 722 pixels; 85 x 61 mm (print at 300 DPI); 265 x 191 mm (screen at 96 DPI); |
| Average Rating: | Not yet rated |
| Categories: | Unsorted Images, Geoscience subjects/ Economic geology/ Metalliferous mining, iron ore |
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