Glen Roy Mine
The site of a lead mine complex shown on the 1870 1:2500 scale Ordnance Survey map. It consisted of a number of features including "Old Levels", a level, wheelpit, leat and office building. According to G.W. Lamplugh's 1903 geological survey of the Island, the mine lay near Riversdale, about two miles west of Laxey, and was begun around 1864 as an offshoot of the Great Laxey Mining Company before passing to an independent company, with what Lamplugh called "disastrous results". The main shaft reached a depth of roughly 122 fathoms, with levels at 10, 25, 40, 55, 65 and 108 fathoms. Recorded output for 1877, 1878 and 1882 (the only years for which separate returns survive) totalled 9 tons 9 cwt of lead ore and 136 tons 9 cwt of zinc ore, and the mine had already been abandoned for about twenty years by the time Lamplugh was writing.
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- Parish: Lonan
- Sheading: Garff
- Grid Ref: SC4096183586
Sources
- Isle of Man Heritage Environment Record