Gambling on mineral riches in Furness
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The Mail, 11th June 2017. "HENRY Schneider was a gambler who risked large sums of money searching for mineral riches – in Furness he hoped to find iron ore in profitable amounts....He was close to giving his search on the Earl of Burlington’s land at Park, near Barrow, when in 1850 a shaft was sunk close to Slater’s Farm and found iron in large quantities at 36ft. What became the Burlington Pit proved to be the richest in Furness and was worked until 1921. In 1885 the Park mine produced 308,000 tons of iron ore.... -
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