Raasay: No.1 Mine tramway viaduct - north pier
Raasay: No.1 Ironstone Mine tramway with silver bi…
Raasay: No.1 Mine tramway viaduct piers
Raasay: No.1 Ironstone Mine adit entrance (intake)…
Raasay: No.1 Ironstone Mine adit entrance (intake)…
Raasay: No.1 Mine tramway viaduct and tributary bu…
Raasay: No.1 Ironstone Mine adit entrance (intake)…
Raasay: No.2 Mine tramway view from winding house…
Raasay: No.2 Mine tramway winding house
Raasay: view north along ironstone mine tramway
Raasay: Churchton Bay, Ferry, and Ben Tianavaig on…
Raasay: Ironstone processing works - concrete gant…
Raasay: Ironstone processing works - calcining kil…
Raasay: No.2 Mine tramway winding house interior
Raasay: view south along ironstone mine tramway
Raasay: Inverarish from mine tramway
Raasay: Churchton Bay and Ben Tianavaig on Skye
Raasay: Ironstone processing works - southern end…
Raasay: Ironstone processing works - view down inc…
Raasay: Ironstone processing works - old office bl…
Raasay: Ironstone processing works - ore hopper an…
Raasay: Ironstone processing works - calcining kil…
Raasay: Ironstone processing works - ore hopper en…
Raasay: Ironstone processing works - ore hopper
Raasay: Ironstone processing works - incline and g…
Raasay: Ironstone processing works - ore hopper an…
Raasay: Ironstone processing works - old office bl…
Raasay: Ironstone processing works - old office bl…
Raasay: East Suisnish pier - W L Byers anchor 1
Raasay: East Suisnish pier - W L Byers anchor 2
Raasay: East Suisnish pier slipway 1
Raasay: East Suisnish pier
Raasay: Morning view over Churchton Bay to the Bla…
Raasay: Morning view over Churchton Bay to Skye
Raasay: Brae ruins 1
Raasay: Brae ruins 2
Raasay: Allt a' Bhràghad waterfall 2
Raasay: Allt a' Bhràghad waterfall 1
Raasay - Inver Bay panorama
Dunstaffnage Castle from south
Dunstaffnage Castle courtyard and gatehouse
Dunstaffnage Castle Great Hall
Dunstaffnage Castle gatehouse middle floor
Dunstaffnage Castle gatehouse top floor
Ben Cruachan from Dunstaffnage Castle
View south from Dunstaffnage Castle near Oban, Sco…
Red throated diver 2
Red throated diver 1
North Screapadal houses 2
View to North Screapadal
View west up Screapadal
South Screapadal houses
Creag na Bruaich 2
Creag na Bruaich 1
Screapadal track and Creag na Bruaich
Screapadal and Creag na Bruaich
Track to Screapadal
Raasay: Laminated wave clouds and cap cloud over G…
Hallaig path at North Fearns
Hallaig path with milestone
Milestone on Hallaig path
Fallen boulder bounce trail from An Leac cliffs
Dùn Caan and shower cloud from Hallaig
Hallaig house and Dùn Caan
Hallaig and Dùn Caan
Hallaig and Inner Sound 2
Hallaig and Inner Sound
Hallaig house 2
Hallaig house 1
Colourful birches and Rubha na' Leac from Hallaig…
Colourful birches near Rubha na' Leac from Hallaig…
Field system on Rubha na' Leac from Hallaig path
Dùn Caan from Hallaig path
Ruined house by Mossy Hallaig path 5
Ruined house by Mossy Hallaig path 4
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Raasay: Tramway junction
Raasay Ironstone Mine and Processing Works
This is the point where the No.2 Mine tramway joins the No.1 Mine tramway before heading south towards the processing plant at East Suisnish. The ruined building is the remains of the No.2 tramway winding house. The mountains of Skye are in the distance.
Background
The two adits of Raasay No.1 ironstone Mine were situated about 2.5 km north of East Suisnish pier and worked the Jurassic (Upper Lias) age siderite and chamosite ores from 1914 to 1920. The mine was owned and developed by William Baird & Co. who also built the terraces of houses in the village of Inverarish to house the mine workers, many of whom were German prisoners of war. A tramway and incline connected the mine to the processing works (crusher, calcining kilns, gantries, loading hoppers) at East Suisnish.
A second pair of mine adits (Raasay No.2 Ironstone Mine) just north of Inverarish were also opened up around the same time but never went into proper production due to geological difficulties (faulting).
There was also a small amount of opencast outcrop mining carried out near the No.1 Mine, again around the same time.
The works were dismantled by 1943 but the site is now a scheduled protected monument.
A view of the works in 1917 is here:
geoscenic.bgs.ac.uk/asset-bank/action/viewAsset?id=1343
The No.2 Mine entrances in 1917 are shown here:
geoscenic.bgs.ac.uk/asset-bank/action/viewAsset?id=1341
This is the point where the No.2 Mine tramway joins the No.1 Mine tramway before heading south towards the processing plant at East Suisnish. The ruined building is the remains of the No.2 tramway winding house. The mountains of Skye are in the distance.
Background
The two adits of Raasay No.1 ironstone Mine were situated about 2.5 km north of East Suisnish pier and worked the Jurassic (Upper Lias) age siderite and chamosite ores from 1914 to 1920. The mine was owned and developed by William Baird & Co. who also built the terraces of houses in the village of Inverarish to house the mine workers, many of whom were German prisoners of war. A tramway and incline connected the mine to the processing works (crusher, calcining kilns, gantries, loading hoppers) at East Suisnish.
A second pair of mine adits (Raasay No.2 Ironstone Mine) just north of Inverarish were also opened up around the same time but never went into proper production due to geological difficulties (faulting).
There was also a small amount of opencast outcrop mining carried out near the No.1 Mine, again around the same time.
The works were dismantled by 1943 but the site is now a scheduled protected monument.
A view of the works in 1917 is here:
geoscenic.bgs.ac.uk/asset-bank/action/viewAsset?id=1343
The No.2 Mine entrances in 1917 are shown here:
geoscenic.bgs.ac.uk/asset-bank/action/viewAsset?id=1341
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