View into clay mine section 3 and 4 Digital image of B 9450
SC 740546
Description View into clay mine section 3 and 4 Digital image of B 9450
Date 16/7/1980
Catalogue Number SC 740546
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of B 9450
Scope and Content Mine portal & rope-worked haulage system, Monkcastle, Dalry, North Ayrshire Douglas Fireclay Company was founded in 1914. In the 1960s it was taken over by Morgans and sold to A P Refractories Ltd, an American company, in 1970. Douglas Works made refractory bricks, using local fireclays, until the works closed in 1982. This shows the mine at Monkcastle, some 900m west of Douglas Works, one of three local mines known to have supplied fireclay to the works. The tracks carried a 52cm-gauge cable-operated railway which transported the clay from the mine to the works for processing using an electric haulage engine. Firebricks contain between 28-43% alumina, or oxide of aluminium. This is an important ingredient of fireclay which gives it a high degree of heat resistance. Refractory bricks were made for use in heat-intensive industries like the iron, steel, glass, petrochemical and ceramics industries. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference Neg no. 45/80/6
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