Hillside Mine

Location: Goat Hill, West Nottingham

Reports indicate that a large deposit of chromite was mined out before 1900, by surface workings only, and some reports suggest that the mine produced an estimated 15,000 tons of chromite under Tyson ownership.

During World War I the National Minerals Co. found on the hillside property a deposit 8 to 10 feet long and 12 to 18 inches wide of chromite that analyzed 42 per cent Cr₂O₃. The company developed the property with an audit about 30 feet long into the hillside and a “winze” (shaft) about 30 feet deep, and shipped 12 tons of ore.

In 1956 the old Hillside mine consisted of a deep pit into the side of the hill, a caved timbered shaft, partly caved slopes, and a large dump. The shaft, at the eastern end of the opencut, formerly led into a stope beneath the floor of the opencut. By means of a cave-in at the north edge of the opencut, the stope is accessible for a length of 25 feet. It is about 5.5 feet high. A little rich disseminate chromite in small lenses and schlieren bands remians in place in the roof and walls of the accessible parts of the stope. A tunnel, now caved, probably extended northwestward from the northwest end of the opencut. (Pearre & Heyl)

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Entrance looking east

Looking west

Cave

Photographs by Mike Bertram, 3/23/2009.

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