Talk:Derbyshire lead mining history
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The description of smelting is good as far as it goes, but nothing is said about the bolehills where lead was smelted before the introduction of the smelt mill. Furthermore, I think the date given for the introduction of the cupola is a little too late.
The word 'cuopla' appears too early in the article, at a point where the subject is actually (despite the heading) smelt mills. This section could do with revision.
Also we could do with a complete article on lead smelting generally, as the subject does not apply just to Derbyshire. Peterkingiron 22:22, 15 April 2006 (UTC)
- But the article and associated customs are specific to Derbyshire. 81.156.85.244 10:01, 28 October 2007 (UTC)
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[edit] Citation
Some one had queried the citation of Ford, T.D. and Rieuwerts, J.H.: There are copies advertised on Amazon.co.uk . Peterkingiron 16:54, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Citation and citations
I have added what I think is a valuable reference to the article showing that lead mining was in Wirksworth before 1086. The reference to Domesday is done using the "ref" and reflist tags. This is a different way of doing refs. If you get really posh then you use the cite tag as well. I have left it a bit untidy as I'm hoping that the main editors might find this a better way. If not then please move it back to your common style. Victuallers 17:53, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
PS - This is one of the best Derbyshire pages Ive seen to date. I'm hoping that someone will start a Derbyshire wikiproject as there are some quite poor articles around Victuallers 17:53, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
- Please do not be ofended that I have removed your addition (though not the reference). I have done this because what was added was repeating what appeared below; there is also evidemce of Roman mining - as you will see. This is an article of quality, but perhaps not quite in the usual style of WP. Peterkingiron 21:12, 26 May 2007 (UTC)
Not offended at all ... I have added another ref to Bakewell. Victuallers 18:58, 4 June 2007 (UTC)
[edit] citation
bole smelting is described in section 3 User Ronslack 13:53, 5 June 2007 If there is a problem is that we now have two separate descriptions of smelting mills. This appears to be the correct Derbyshire term, in contrast to 'smelt mills' in north Yorkshire. This clearly needs to be fixed. Peterkingiron 22:00, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Modern lead mining?
This is a wonderful lead mining history article to find in WP! It is a shame not to have to such info in WP about modern lead mining. Please add such info if you can. There must be pollution, danger, and toxicity associated with lead mining and production, currently. But there does not seem to be any info in WP about this. Please add such information.-69.87.203.198 12:03, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
[edit] GA/A Assessment?
hi does anyone else think that this is ready to be nominated? Thanks Bluegoblin7 14:48, 17 December 2007 (UTC)
