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V.—On the Occurrence of Copper and Lead Ores in the Bunter Conglomerates of Cannock Chase2

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

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The district known as Cannock Chase is, at the present moment, the scene of a series of extensive mining operations which, if even moderately successful, will open up a very considerable area of valuable coal-seams, computed at not less than 200,000,000 tons, and push outwards a distance of upwards of five miles the northern apex of the South Staffordshire Coal-field. This apex, as is well known, now rests on Brereton, where the Coal-measures are thrown down on the east by a fault of considerable range and influence, and on the west they are overlapped unconformably by Bunter conglomerates. From this point the conglomerates are continued in a broad unbroken tract, over the Chase to within about four miles of the town of Stafford, up to which point the mining investigations, to which I have alluded, will be extended.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1873

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2

Read before the British Association, Brighton, August, 1872.

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page 16 note 1 I am pleased to find in a Settle Caves Exploration “prospectus,” just issued with a view to collecting subscriptions, Mr. Boyd Dawkins has adopted my views on these important questions.