| By this time the mine had three shafts, many large stopes and hundreds of metres of drives. |
| Dunham noted that fluorite was more common in stopes developed on veins lower down in the Melmerby Scar Limestone than in the upper flats. |
| For the next ten years it was leased to tributors who worked the old stopes of the conglomerate lode above the adit level. |
| The remnant ore inside the old stopes, pillars and tailings used as backfilling are being leached with mild acid solution. |
| As a result of this practice immense stopes, or cavities, connected by narrow drives had been formed. |
| We explored the areas that were not being mined, including miles of old abandoned drifts and stopes. |
