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Other Metals and Minerals
Perhaps the most famous Derbyshire mineral is "Blue John" - a form of fluorspar, which is mined for jewelry near Castleton. The table below lists the main economic minerals worked in the Peak other than lead and limestone:
Target:
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Location
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Period
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Use
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Fluorspar
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Baslow - Eyam
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20th Century (current)
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Steel making
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Copper
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Ecton
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18th Century
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Metal
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Zinc
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Ecton
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18th Century
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Paint, brass making
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Calcite
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Youlgreave
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20th Century
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White cements & paints
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Chert (similar to flint)
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Bakewell
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18-20th Centuries
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Grinding clays for ceramics
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Silica Sands
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Hartington
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19-20th Centuries
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High temperature bricks
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Iron smelting
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Burbage valley
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maybe medieval
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Metal
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Coal
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S.W. of Buxton
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18-19th Centuries
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Lime burning, domestic.
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19th century coal mine, Axe Edge, above Buxton.
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