The Black Pool Quartz Quarry in Chester, located on Chester Hill. This flooded pit appropriately named for its black water, was once an active quartz mining operation with slabs up to 50 feet wide. We know there was a quartz finishing works in Factory Village but there is very little history on this one!

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