FUNDING
The Ecton Mine Educational Trust is a company limited by guarantee (i.e. it does not have shareholders), and is a registered charity. Apart from its educational activities it is responsible for safety and maintenance of the mine and its buildings. Ecton Hill Field Studies Association is an unincorporated association whose educational activities are carried out entirely by volunteers, and is supported financially by EMET and by scientific and professional organisations.
Funding sources include:
Donations for EHFSA courses and other visits to the mine: these are agreed on a case-by-case basis with schools, universities, and other organisations wishing to use Ecton’s facilities including the development and provision of courses as well as visits to the mine.
Participation in funded scientific research: EMET has been involved in a number of funded research projects, both as a direct participant and by providing test and demonstration services to UK and European projects, funded by the European Commission ‘Horizon’ research programme, UK Research and Innovation, and others. Research facilities have also been provided for minerals industry product development such as for Carlson Instruments.
Donations from organisations such as MinSouth: professional societies and institutions have provided generous financial support to EMET and EHFSA in recognition of the educational and research work done at Ecton.
Corporate sponsorship – both cash and in kind: financial assistance has been provided by large multinational minerals groups as well as local quarrying companies with activities in the Peak District. Most recently this has included the donation of steel staging by Longcliffe Quarries, to provide a safe replacement for rotting timber staging used for launching submersible ROVs.
Grants for restoration and improvement: these grants are provided by UK organisations and agencies including Historic England, the National Trust, and FiPL (Farming in Protected Landscapes), for restoration, conservation, and preservation of historic structures at Ecton within the unique landscape of the upper Manifold Valley, where Ecton Mine lies within two SSSIs and is a scheduled Monument.
Our thanks go to all who have supported and continue to support the educational and research work at Ecton Mine.
If you are interested in financial (or in-kind) sponsorship of Ecton Mine education, research, or management of the historic site, please contact our chairman for further information
CURRENT DONORS
With thanks to all who have supported us at Ecton, both EMET and EHFSA, in cash and in kind, including ….
- Resourcing Tomorrow (Beacon Events Ltd)
- Historic England
- Peak District National Park
- Anglo American plc
- Longcliffe Quarries / Longcliffe Calcium Carbonates
- Rio Tinto
- IOM3
- Minsouth
- The Royal Society of Chemistry
- The Geologists Association
- British Geological Survey
- The European Commission
- UK Research and Innovation
- Farming in Protected Landscapes
- The National Trust
- The schools and universities who have worked with us …
- … and all the volunteers, tutors, and trustees who give so freely of their time and energy
The powder house, where dangerous explosives were stored. This small shed was placed well away from other buildings and was erected in 1884. The interior was originally lined with wooden panels as an added precaution against accidentally creating sparks.
was lowered on one side and it was converted to a field barn. The steam engine was located in the far half of the building, while its boiler was in the near half. A short distance upslope there was a small reservoir pond for the boilers fed by water brought up from the mine.
In the 1760s-80s the internationally important Deep Ecton Copper Mine made a fortune for the Dukes of Devonshire. The first copper was mined here long before, in the Bronze Age over 3,500 years ago. The Dukes, who owned northern and western parts of the hill, had their mines worked in-house for over 50 years from 1760. From the 1820s private mining companies embarked on a fruitless search for further rich ore deposits. The mines were finally abandoned in 1889. While the 19th century ventures lost investors’ money, with them at best only finding other peoples’ leavings, they kept local miners in work for decades.
Peter has nearly 50 years experience mostly at the sharp end of the minerals industry. He is a metallurgist who started in the steel industry prior to his degree at Cambridge University. He held senior positions with Anglo American on the Zambian Copperbelt, and at Glebe Mines fluorspar operation in the Derbyshire Peak District; and has been an independent freelance since 2000. He has had connections with Ecton Mine and Geoff Cox since the mid-1980s. He is Secretary of The British Aggregates Association, a member of the CBI Minerals Group and the UK National Minerals Forum; and has various business interests in the industrial minerals industry in the UK, Europe and globally; and is also a Director of MAUK (Mining Association of the UK) and Amemptos Music.
I am an exploration and mining geologist (C. Geol) with over 25 years of experience in the deep geological disposal of radioactive waste and 7 years of experience of exploration, environmental impact assessment and mining feasibility for the Kayelekera uranium deposit in Northern Malawi, Africa. I retired from the British Geological Survey in 2016 and am currently a member of the Government’s Committee on Radioactive Waste Disposal. I undertook a PhD on caves and mines in the Peak District and, as an active caver and mine explorer, have been studying the underground world of the Peak District since the mid 1970’s, including the mines of the Ecton Area. I am a director (editor) of the Peak District Mines Historical Society and the mine manager of their Temple Mine in Matlock Bath.
mongst geologists and others involved in the application of geoscience, particularly through the promotion of professional titles such as CEng, CGeol, and EurGeol. She has served on the Council of the Geological Society of London and is a past President of the European Federation of Geologists. For many years, she has been a member of the Pan European Reserves and Resources Reporting Committee (PERC).
Phil in Organic Chemistry, Nottingham Uni 1977-79, awarded 1981
I am a geoscientist with more than 45 years of experience. After working as a mine geologist in the Yorkshire Coalfield for 12 years, I moved on to seismic exploration for coal, potash and other minerals focussing on seismic interpretation and delineating geological structure to aid mine planning. My prospect experience includes projects in UK, Spain, Turkey, Australia, Africa, Argentina and Canada.
ng and engineering around the world. Although I am now retired I continue to hold Board appointments with national and international regulatory and standards organisations which I find professionally stimulating and thoroughly rewarding.