Strontian Mines, Argyll, Scotland

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Strontian Mines, Argyll, Scotland - View of the recent opencast operations.

Recent mining activities over the past 25 years or so at Strontian have taken place to provide barite as a filler for use in the North Sea oil industry. These activities have encroached upon and partly obliterated previous vestiges of mining activities over the past 200+ years at Strontian. The general name referred to the location of these operations is either the Strontian Barite Mine or the Clashgorm Mine Section.

The recent mining activities have furnished a number of specimens from Strontian for the current mineral specimen market. Fine specimens of several of the minerals already known from Strontian in the past have been recovered, including calcite, harmotome and brewsterite...

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

All location photographs were graciously supplied by David McCallum, Brian Jackson
& David Green.
This website would like to extend a special thanks to them.
Without their assistance, this page would not have been possible.

Additional thanks is due to Steve Moreton
for elucidating the complex mine section divisions at the locality.

References/ Further Reading

UKJMM - (United Kingdom Journal of Mines & Minerals)
no.7; p. 12. & no. 19; p.6.
vol. 21; pp 8-27. "Twenty Years in Minerals: Scotland."
(D. I. Green/ J.G. Todd) (2001).
Minerals of Scotland - Past & Present. A. Livingstone.
(NMS Publishing Ltd.) (2002).