lead-mine

The poet Newton had provided the town with a water supply by having pipes laid at his own expense from the Well Head at the source of the stream which flowed out of an old lead-mine.

From John O'Groats to Land's End Robert Naylor

He preceded them along the narrow track until, on an open space in the moorland, they came to one of the old lead-mine shafts, the mouth of which had been fenced in by a roughly built wall of stone gathered from its immediate surroundings.

The Chestermarke Instinct 1899

Before adjourning, the Coroner informed the jury that he understood there were rumours in the town to the effect that Mr. Hollis had been strangled before being thrown into the old lead-mine.

The Chestermarke Instinct 1899

Supposing one of 'em took Hollis off, alone, across that moor you've told me about, and induced him to look into that old lead-mine?

The Chestermarke Instinct 1899

So Joseph dabbled in toxicology, did he? thought Neale -- in that case, perhaps, there was something in the theory which had been gaining ground during the last twenty-four hours -- that Hollis had been poisoned first and thrown into the old lead-mine later on.

The Chestermarke Instinct 1899

"Do you mean," I asked, "that there is a lead-mine in the bottom of the pool?"

The Boys of Crawford's Basin The Story of a Mountain Ranch in the Early Days of Colorado Chase [Illustrator] Emerson 1887

Connor's lead-mine after all had turned out to be only a "pocket edition."

The Boys of Crawford's Basin The Story of a Mountain Ranch in the Early Days of Colorado Chase [Illustrator] Emerson 1887

"I'm a-goin 'to make a lead-mine of _you_ ef you don't take that back!" roared the colonel, with a bound, which caused Cranks to drop his pistol, and retire precipitately backward, apologizing as he went.

Romance of California Life John Habberton 1881

His brother had been seven years at Des Vaches, where he had lands, and a lead-mine, and a scheme for a railroad, and had lately added a daily newspaper to his other enterprises.

Indian Summer William Dean Howells 1878

Then the Black Tor would be mine, and afterwards yours; with all the rich revenue to be drawn from the lead-mine.

The Black Tor A Tale of the Reign of James the First George Manville Fenn 1870