Geology and Mining
The summit area is formed of the siltstone, sandstone, conglomerate, tuff, lapilli-tuff and andesite sills of the Eagle Crag Member. The northern slopes display the underlying olistostrome of disrupted, sheared and folded mudstone, siltstone and sandstone of the Buttermere Formation. In the direction of Red Pike are intrusions of the granophyric granite.
There are the remains of a small copper mine near the shore of Buttermere. This was worked from 1569 to 1570 and again in the 1820s.
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