{"id":9979,"date":"2022-07-13T15:46:48","date_gmt":"2022-07-13T14:46:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/potbanks.wordpress.com\/?p=9979"},"modified":"2022-07-13T15:46:48","modified_gmt":"2022-07-13T14:46:48","slug":"cobalt-mine-on-alderley-edge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2022\/07\/13\/cobalt-mine-on-alderley-edge\/","title":{"rendered":"Cobalt mine on Alderley Edge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An abandoned <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heritagedaily.com\/2022\/07\/abandoned-cobalt-mine-rediscovered-with-time-capsule-of-artefacts\/144133\">cobalt mine on Alderley Edge<\/a>, rediscovered. Apparently un-vandalised and&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;in pristine condition, together with [&#8230;] personal objects and inscriptions&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It was mined in &#8220;the early 19th century because of the Napoleonic Wars&#8221;. In peacetime conditions the &#8216;zaffre&#8217; type of cobalt could be imported annually to the UK from Saxony and Prussia (now Germany \/ Poland). Then used in certain types of glaze mixes (for &#8216;cobalt blues&#8217; etc) by the pottery industry, in a highly diluted form at 1:150,000. The Alderley Edge mine reported today is said to have been abandoned in 1810, no longer needed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An abandoned cobalt mine on Alderley Edge, rediscovered. Apparently un-vandalised and&#8230; &#8220;in pristine condition, together with [&#8230;] personal objects and inscriptions&#8221; It was mined in &#8220;the early 19th century because of the Napoleonic Wars&#8221;. In peacetime conditions the &#8216;zaffre&#8217; type of cobalt could be imported annually to the UK from Saxony and Prussia (now Germany [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9979\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}