Loch na Meine Mine, Strathglass, Aird and Loch Ness, Highland, Scotland, UKi

Regional Level Types
Loch na Meine Mine	Mine
Strathglass	- not defined -
Aird and Loch Ness	Ward
Highland	Council Area
Scotland	Country
UK	Country

Russell (1946):

"This, the most important of the three workings, lies at an elevation of about 1100 feet above sea-level, 430 yards north of the west end of Loch na Mèine, on the high ground about midway between Strath Glass and Strath Farrar, and is reached by a rough track leading up from Struy.
Here is to be seen a hush running west down the hill, the site of two filled- in shafts which are connected by a shallow adit-level, and the remains of a water-wheel for pumping, water to work which was brought by a leat from Loch na Mèine (Loch na Mèine is in part if not wholly artificial as its eastern end is formed by a dam); also reservoirs, a dressing floor on which there still remains some broken ore, and a curiously designed and apparently unfinished smelter chimney, wrongly described in the Geological Survey Memoir as the ruins of an engine house.
Of the three this was the only mine which seems to have produced any marketable ore, but from the small size of the dumps, corroborated by the section, very little actual stoping appears to have been done.
The engine shaft was sunk to a depth of about 18 fathoms, the other or older shaft on the incline of the vein to 14 fathoms.
Besides the adit, a level from the engine shaft communicates with the bottom of the older shaft, and from the engine shaft, another level at a depth of 11 fathoms has been driven east a few fathoms.
There are two chutes of ore shown on the section, the principal in the older shaft, and another at adit-level in the engine shaft.
The total length of the workings is only 20 fathoms.
The vein here cannot actually be seen but has an approximately east and west direction with a dip to the south of about 33° from the vertical.
The vein-filling consists largely of pink and white baryte and quartz with embedded masses and coarse cleavage cubes of galena, and small quantities of black blende; also included masses of quartz-muscovite-granulite.
The galena is said from assays to have yielded from 7 ounces to 22 ounces 11 pennyweights of silver to the ton of ore."

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