Special Reports on the Mineral Resources of Great Britain Vol viii, Iron Ores: Haematites of West Cumberland, Lancashire, and the Lake District

Abstract

AS is well known, one of the effects of the recent war has been to direct the attention of the British people to the wealth of the mineral resources of their own country, whereupon it soon became apparent that accurate official information as to the nature and extent of these resources was conspicuous only by its absence. Fortunately, the Director of the Geological Survey, Sir Aubrey Strahan, took immediate steps to rectify this deficiency, and a series of volumes on the mineral resources of Great Britain has been issued under his direction; the last three of these have just been published. These are the opening volumes of a set dealing with British iron ores, and Sir Aubrey Strahan has written a short preface to the first of them, in which he indicates the general scheme which it is proposed to follow. He divides the British ores into “three classes, namely, those products, mostly haematites, which occur as replacements, in lodes, etc.; the bedded ores of Mesozoic age; and the bedded ores of Palaeozoic age.”

Special Reports on the Mineral Resources of Great Britain. Vol. viii., Iron Ores: Haematites of West Cumberland, Lancashire, and the Lake District.

By Bernard Smith. Vol. ix., Iron Ores (continued): Sundry Unbedded Ores of Durham, East Cumberland, North Wales, Derbyshire, the Isle of Man, Bristol District and Somerset, Devon and Cornwall. By T. C. Cantrill, Dr. R. L. Sherlock, and Henry Dewey. Vol. x., Iron Ores (continued): The Haematites of the Forest of Dean and South Wales. By Prof. T. Franklin Sibly. (Southampton: Ordnance Survey Office, 1919.) Prices: Vol. viii., 9s. net; vol. ix., 3s. 6d. net; vol. x., 4s. net.