Scottish shale Scottish shale

Deans No.3 mine

Parish:
Bathgate, Linlithgowshire
Local authority:
West Lothian
Seams worked:
Dunnet Shale
Opened:
c.1904
Closed:
1920
Current status of site:
Site levelled and returned to agriculture
Regional overview:

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Inclined adit

Serving Deans Crude Oil Works

Opened c.1904 to supply Dunnet shale to the Pumpherston Oil Company's newly reconstructed Deans Crude Oil Works. Known as Starlaw Mine, but unrelated to the earlier Starlaw Pit, site of the 1870 disaster. A separate, earlier Deans No. 3 Mine operated at a site north of the Edinburgh to Bathgate railway.

The history of the "old shaft" shown on the 1897 OS map is unknown, but the 1914 map suggests that this was re-used in the development of Deans No. 3, perhaps for ventilation purposes.

Shale-field: Deans shale-field.

Mapped by the Ordnance Survey of c.1914 (6" OS).

  • Location & workings at Deans No.3 mine
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  • Detailed maps
  • Production records
    • Year Production (Tons)
      1904 68,857
      1905 100,076
      1906 97,600
      1907 156,659
      1908 155,538
      1909 144,687
      1910 155,465
      1911 154,588
      1912 154,587
      1913 151,655
      1914 119,524
      1915 79,824
      1916 64,382
      1917 59,558
      1918 70,253
      1919 65,262

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  • External references
    • Coal Authority Mine Abandonment Catalogue No. 7157 , showing workings in the Upper Dunnet, Dunnet and Barracks Shales from Deans No.3, abandoned in 1920.