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groverake mine in county durham, uk
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Groverake Mine

High in the windswept hills of County Durham, at the heart of the North Pennines National Landscape, is Groverake Mine — a relic from the north of England’s industrial past that once bustled with life and enterprise for almost two centuries. This area was at the centre of Britain’s fluorspar excavation industry, extracting the mineral ...