Tyndrum Lead Mines

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  • Extraction Lead extraction

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First exploited from 1730 when Sir John Clifton took a 38 year lease from Lord Breadalbane. By 1747 it was in the hands of the Mine Adventurers of England and subsequently, inter alia, the Ripon Co, 1760-62; Richard Richardson & Thomas Patten, 1762-68; Scots Mining Co, 1768-91; Caledonia Mining Co, 1803-07; Lord Breadalbane, 1837-62; Tyndrum Lead & Zinc Mines Ltd, 1918-26.

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