Corrantee Mine, Strontian, Argyll, Scotland

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The Corrantee Mine is located away from the recent mining operations at Strontian.
These are concentrated in the Clashgorm Section and Whitesmith Mine areas, situated directly to the north of the village of Strontian and in the central area of the mines of Strontian.

The Corrantee Mine is located roughly halfway between the recent mining operations and the summit of Beinn Resipol which lies to the to the west.

The Corrantee Mine is not especially well known for its abundance of specimens. Few specimens are to be found in museum collections. From the heyday of its active life, in fact, very few examples remain.

Nevertheless, the mine is known to have produced some fine examples of the zeolite family mineral, harmotome; one of the main mineral species for which Strontian is renowned.

The harmotome examples from Corrantee compare favourably with those uncovered from the other mines at Strontian. Recent collecting activity at the mine has revealed some harmotome, calcite and kainosite examples.

The most recent investigations have uncovered a small, limited, but excellent, find of the sulphide ore minerals of sphalerite (zinc) and galena (lead); the latter of these, galena, was the principal mineral exploited during the peak mining era at Strontian.

These latter examples rank among the best found at Strontian for either of those mineral species. Some examples from this and other finds can be seen on the Strontian mineral gallery pages.

Panoramic view of the Corrantee Mine, Strontian, Argyll. Building remains can be seen in the centre of the picture, in the sloping clearance between the conifer woodland.

Mining remnant: part of an iron cogwheel from the Corrantee Mine, Strontian, Argyll, Scotland.

Drill core sections at the remains of the Goldfields core shed. Corrantee Mine, Strontian, Argyll, Scotland.

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 for making this page possible.

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).