Distant view looking ESE from Minnivey showing mine
SC 739949
Description Distant view looking ESE from Minnivey showing mine
Date 13/8/1970
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 739949
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Slag Hill, Craigmark Mine, Dalmellington, East Ayrshire This shows the slag hill formed by tipping during the working life of the smelting works, which closed in 1921. Latterly the slag was tipped while it was still liquid, hence the appearance of the left-hand side of the hill. Its profile had been altered by some quarrying of the slag for hard-core. Blast furnace slag is formed by the reaction of impurities in ironstone and the fuel used (coal or coke) with limestone, added to the other materials to form a liquid which floats on top of the molten iron. When a furnace is tapped the slag is run off before the iron. The Dalmellington Iron Co was founded in 1847 to exploit seams of coal and ironstone in and around the upper Doon valley. The smelting works was built at Waterside, and was linked to the coal and ironstone pits by a network of railways. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H35/70/46/30
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