The Edge has been, and is, intensively quarried for galena, fluorspar and barytes, and more controversially, limestone.
12.
It closed in 1920, then was reopened in 1942, becoming the Muirshiel Barytes Co . and employing workers from Lochwinnoch and Kilbirnie.
13.
The area has previously been mined and quarried for minerals such as barytes, coal fluorspar, iron, lead, witherite and zinc.
14.
Mining exploration continued in the region, but coal mining at Leigh Creek and barytes at Oraparinna were the only long-term successes.
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It has about one third of India's limestone reserves and is known for large exclusive deposits of barytes and galaxy granite in the international market.
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The exploitable ones include crude oil, coal, halite ( rock salt ), canbyite, barytes, limestone, and others, 22 kinds in total.
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Mining-chemical raw materials ( rock salt, lime, phosphorites, barytes, etc . ) are quite substantial, and are utilized in the republic economy.
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However, the mine was reopened after the close of the First World War, and a railway and pier were built to transport the barytes that was mined there.
19.
The Muirshiel Barytes Mine to the north of the village carried out Baryte from the late 18th century, and by 1918 was known as the Muirshiels Mineral Co . of Lochwinnoch.
20.
In the late 1800s there was a large barite mine, ( called " barytes " at the time by the locals ) on the Bass River called the Duncan / Eureka Mine.
