A maze of workings on several lodes and branches of lodes - believed to be the extremity of the Esgair Hir lode by O.T. Jones.
Workings accesible via several adits and air shaft. Further reaches of Deep Adit are inaccesible.
May be pre-Roman
| Year | Activity |
|---|---|
| 1641 | 200fm level had been driven by Thomas Bushell to intercept ‘drowned work 38 fathoms deep’. The site of this adit has not been determined. |
| 1720s | 150 tons of lead ore raise by the Mine Adventurers. |
| c1750 | A Shrewsbury based company extracts a good deal of ore. |
| c1800 | Bick believes best years of mining were over by this date, and any further attempts were doomed to ruin. |
| 1840s | Company from Flintshire drove a crosscut under the village, which became the Deep Adit to interesect workings 20fm above old bottoms, but little else was done. |
| 1850 | Promoted by Matthew and Absalom Francis as the Alltycrib Silver Lead Mine. Flat rods in deep adit driven by a 28ft waterwheel for pumping. |
| 1851 | 1 ton lump of solid galena appears at the Great Exhibition. |
| 1852 | 231 tons or ore sold, but production deteriorates. |
| 1854 | Mine up for auction. |
| 1859 | Revival under secretary J.H. Murchinson, intent on driving deep adit further to intercept lodes further into the hilside. This changed when ore was found near the summit, and two adits 15 fm depth apart driven to exploit the discovery. |
| 1864 | Ore exhausted and deep adit had not uncovered any new discovery, only 200 tons of ore raised since 1859. |
| 1869?? Bick says 1879 | Aberystwyth Foundry installs underground steam pumping engine for Robert Girdwood. Girdwood leaves, work continued on the new shaft on the now named ‘Champion Lode’ by the Alltycrib Silver Lead Mining Company. This was planned to sink to the 40fm level to meet an extension of the deep adit. About 200 tons of ore raised during this time. |
| c1870s? | Talybont Silver Lead Mining Company takes over, breaking into old working an raising some ore. |
| 1878 | Ore exhausted, company reduced to ‘scratching about on surface’ |
| 1885 | Absalom Francis returns, pumping out the engine shaft and raising about 250 tons of ore. |
| 1891 | Production Ceases. |
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Publications (27)
- (1850); Allt y Crib - Prospectus; 4 pages
- (1850); Allt y Crib; 1 pages
- (1850); Cardiganshire - MJ Articles; 2 pages
- (1922); BGS - Mineral Resources of GB (c1920s) Vol XX - Lead and Zinc: Cardiganshire & West Montogmeryshire; 242 pages
- (1922); BGS - Mineral Resources of GB (c1920s) Vol XX - Lead and Zinc: Cardiganshire & West Montogmeryshire; 242 pages
- Bick, D.E. (1991); Old Metal Mines of Mid-Wales, The; North of Goginan - Part 3; pp. 37-38
- Francis (1874); Allt y Crib; 2 pages
- Francis, Absalom (1874); History of the Cardiganshire Mines; 3 pages
- Hughes, Simon J.S. (1971); BSA Proceedings Vol VI, No 46 - Mineral Field of Mid Wales, The; 8 pages
- Hughes, Simon J.S. (1976); Cardiganshire - Its Mines and Miners; 52 pages
- Hughes, Simon J.S. (1976); Papur Pawb - Newspaper Snippets ; 16 pages
- Hughes, Simon J.S. (1981); Mines of Talybont, The - Part1, From AD70 to 1800; 36 pages
- Hughes, Simon J.S. (1987); British Mining Memoirs No. 34 - George Greem Engineer & Entrepreneur, 1824-1895; 14 pages
- Hughes, Simon J.S. (1988); UK Journal of Mines & Minerals No 5 - Decline of Mining in Mid Wales and Prospects of Revival, The; 10 pages
- Hughes, Simon J.S. (2001); Talybont - Ein Canrif; 11 pages
- Hughes, Simon J.S. (2004); WMPT Newsletter April - Talybont - Some Recent work on Ancient Mining in Mid Wales; 15 pages
- Lewis, W.J. (1951); Early Mining in Wales; 17 pages
- Libscombe (1870); Allt y Crib; 1 pages
- Liscombe & Co (1880); Mines of Cardiganshire, Montgomereyshire & Shropshire; 52 pages
- Louis, Henry (1896); Treatise on Ore Deposits -Cardiganshire; 12 pages
- Nancarrow (1919); Nancarrow Cardiganshire Report; 21 pages
- Naylor, Peter (1981); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 08-1 Jun - Sir Hugh Myddelton The First Mines Adventurer; 6 pages (54-59)
- O.J. Jones (1922); Allt y Crib; 2 pages
- Rieuwerts, J.H. (1980); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 07-5 - Earliest Lead-Mine Soughs in Derbyshire, The; 74 pages (241-314)
- Rieuwerts, J.H. (1998); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 13-6 Win - Early Gunpowder Work in Longe or Cromford Sough, Derbyshire, 1662 - 1663 and 1676 - 1680; 5 pages (1-5)
- Spargo (1870); Allt y Crib & Llwyn Adda; 2 pages
- Timberlake, Simon (1994); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 12-3 Sum - Archaeological and Circumstantial Evidence for early Mining in Wales; 11 pages (133-143)
