Chain Burn Mine

Lead ore occurs at Blairwood, Drumore, Glen, and Mark; fine specimens of galena have been found in Moneypool. [Gazetteer of Scotland]

Galena was found with Dudgeonite and Annabergite at Moneypool Burn, west of the Pibble mine. [Mineralogy of Scotland]

Chain Burn Mine (Abandoned) - An old mine sited on the Chain or Moneypool Burn, a quarter mile below the viaduct at Culchronchie. A fairly good road passes the workings. The vein occurs along a line of crush and consists of a few strings of quartz, It hades to north and trends 20 degrees north of west. Small shafts were sunk on both sides of burn but little other work. Galena has been found on spoil dumps. [Memoirs of the Geological Survey]

Mine workings have been removed but it is noted that 'concrete winding posts' and some 'mine gear' have survived. [GSG 2008]

Field Visit 2013 recorded: NX 501 608 (centred on) Chain Burn Lead Mine. NX 50102 60878 Shaft hollow. NX 50124 60850 Flooded mine level and spoil tip. NX 50174 60800 Mine level and spoil tip. [John Pickin]

Annabergite is a mineral consisting of a hydrous nickel arsenate, Ni3(AsO4)2·8H2O, from Annaberg in Saxony, one of its localities. A variety, from Creetown in Kirkcudbrightshire, where a portion of the nickel is replaced by calcium, has been called dudgeonite, after P. Dudgeon, who found it. [Chemeurope]

Links and Resources:

Kirkcudbrightshire XL.14 (Kirkmabreck), Revised: 1894, Publication date: 1895. Extreme northwest of sheet, old shaft (lead) marked on northside of Moneypool Burn, west of junction with Mark Burn.
Kirkcudbrightshire sheet XL.SW (includes: Kirkmabreck). Date revised: 1894, Publication date: 1896. Old shaft marked on north side of Moneypool Burn, west of the junction with the Mark Burn.
Kirkcudbrightshire sheet XL.SW (includes: Kirkmabreck) Date revised: 1907, Publication date: 1909. As above.
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Canmore ID. 295827. Recorded as Culchronchie Lead Mine. canmore.org.uk/site/295827/culchronchie.
www.chemeurope.com/en/encyclopedia/Annabergite.html.
Gazetteer of Metal Mines of Scotland, p. 13. Possible typo in coordinates (NX504610 should be NX 501601). Mentions shafts on both sides of the burn supposedly shown on 1896 map but while the text is to the south the only shaft shown is north of the burn.
Grampian Speleological Group. (2008) Mines in Scotland, in Alan L Jeffreys, a revised re-publication of the Glasgow Speleological Society Journal Volume 1, part 4 (1968. Page(s): 28.
Groome, Francis H., 1882-5, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland: A Survey of Scottish Topography, Statistical, Biographical and Historical.
Heddle, M. Forster, 1901, Mineralogy of Scotland, Vol. 1, p. 27.
Historic Environment Record, ref: MDG23090.
Oldham, Tony, 2007, Mines of South-west Scotland, p. 9.
Oldham, Tony. 2005, Mines of South-west Scotland - Supplement 1, p. 34. Brief mention only.
Non-Ferrous Metal Mines of South-west Scotland, p. 15.
Northern Mine Research Society, Index of articles on Scotland Published by NMRS, Chain Burn, Kirkmabreck, Kirkudbrightshire M1968.73 IS2.15.
Pastmap, OS 10k background mapping. Workings indicated on both sides of the Moneypool Burn.
Pickin, J. (2014) Kirkmabreck, Chain Burn Lead Mine, Survey, Discovery Excav Scot, New, vol. 14, 2013. Cathedral Communications Limited, Wiltshire, England. Page(s): 62.
Wilson, G.V. Memoirs of the Geological Survey, Scotland, Special Reports on the Mineral Resources of Great Britain, Vol. 17, The Lead, Zinc, Copper and Nickel Ores of Scotland, p. 53.

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NGR:	NX 50137 60865
WGS84:	54.91992, -4.33979
Length:	Not recorded
Vert. Range:	Not recorded
Altitude:	80 m
Geology:	Lead, Gala Unit 6 - Wacke
Tags:	Mine, ManMade, Archaeo
Registry:	second

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