Shafts and several adits working 2 lodes. Prior to 1960, the large masonry portal to the deep adit was accessible. Bick states that the area was totally obliterated during construction of the trackway to the forestry area.
2 adits remain on higher ground.
| Year | Activity |
|---|---|
| 1851 | Operating as the South Wales Mining Company. Lewis Pugh of Aberystwyth was illegaly mining very rich ore from the middle of the mine sett. Captain Barbery, the manager was instructed to sink a shaft near Pugh’s workings which did by ‘perseverance and not a little force’. The expected lode was not cut though. |
| 1854 | Described as ‘6 to 9ft wide, principally composed of quartz, gossan, mundic and copper ore intermixed with good quality lead ore’. |
| c1870 | Mine finally becomes productive after deep adit had been pushed into some good ore. A deeper adit was then commenced from near the modern trackway. |
Publications (7)
- (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
- Hughes, Simon J.S. (1987); British Mining Memoirs No. 34 - George Greem Engineer & Entrepreneur, 1824-1895; 14 pages
- Hughes, Simon J.S. (1991); British Mining Volume 43 - Castell & Nant y Creiau Mines, The; 23 pages
- Liscombe & Co (1880); Mines of Cardiganshire, Montgomereyshire & Shropshire; 52 pages
- Nancarrow (1919); Nancarrow Cardiganshire Report; 21 pages
- Welsh Mines Society (Apr 2002); Newsletter 46
