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Whitespots-Conlig Lead Mines, Newtownards, Co.Down, July 1997: spoil at North Engine Shaft.
The Whitespots - Conlig lead mines is an extensive site comprising several spoil heaps, tailings impoundments, capped mine shafts and architectural features including engine houses and chimney stacks. The spoil material contains hydrothermal vein minerals, notably galena, chalcopyrite, barite, dolomite, calcite and rare harmotome (the only known occurrence in Northern Ireland) and ore textures that demonstrate the origin of the mineralization. Museum-quality crystalline specimens of these minerals have been recovered from the site during the past 15 years, and there are many specimens from the site in the Ulster Museum collections.
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