Extensive mine driven on five levels on the Hafna Lode and some workings on the Rabbit Lode (Red Lode). The site which is next to the Gwydyr road is marked by the remains of the Hafna Mill, with it’s fine chimney. All entrances are gated and access is not possible. The most prominent entrances are the Winding Shaft and No. 3 adit which are just above the mill.
The highest No1 and No2 levels are no longer visible. In the 1920s, a No 6 level was started lower down to the north east with the intention of intersecting the Hafna Lode at depth and to act as Deep Adit, but was only partially driven.
| Year | Activity |
|---|---|
| 1838-46 | Worked by succession of small partnerships, each with 1 or 2 men. |
| 1848-49 | Griffith Williams has set with 6 men at work, 8 tons or ore weighed 1849. |
| 1859-62 | Leased by Evans, Williams & Lloyd, known as the Carnarvon Company, 16 men employed, 100 tons of lead ore, 60 tons of blende raised. |
| 1862-77 | Rhafna Lead Mining Company Limited, 60 tons of ore produced in first few years, 30 tons in final 10 years. |
| 1877 | Lease passes to Leon Joseph Amberwise Valentine Baron Cinglant Bardin de Crevecour, of Rue Pigalle, Paris. |
| 1878-80 | The Mineral Corporation of Great Britain. 11 tons lead ore. |
| 1881 | Leased by Geroge Richard, Paris. |
| 1885-95 | The Hafna Mining & Smelting Company Limited. 100 tons blende, 30 tons of lead ore. |
| 1895 | New North Wales United Mines Limited. No ore returned. |
| 1896-1902 | Société Anonyme Français des Mines Hafna. ABout 1,500 tons blende, 500 tons lead ore. |
| 1902-05 | Hafna Mines Limited. |
| 1907-15 | Hafna Mines Limited. About 300 tons lead, 1,200 tons blende. |
| 1919 | Western Development Company Limited |
| 1920-2 | Eagle Lead Company. |
| 1932-48 | D.W. Holdings. During 40s, he was claiming Hafna to have > 100,000 tons of payable blende. |
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Publications (13)
- (1922); BGS - Mineral Resources of GB (c1920s) Vol XXIII - Lead & Zinc: Pre-Carboniferous Shropshire & North Wales; 111 pages
- (2016); CATMHS - Newsletter 123-May; 43 pages
- (2016); CATMHS - Newsletter 125-November; 40 pages
- Bennet & Vernon (1990); Mines of the Gwydyr Forest, Book 2 - The Hafna mine
- BGS - Mine Plans (large, zoomable) - Hafna Mine Tracing Of The Eagle Lead Co, Section; 1 pages
- BGS - Mine Plans (large, zoomable) - Hafna Mine; 1 pages
- BGS - Mine Plans (large, zoomable) - Hafna/pandora Mines; 1 pages
- BGS - Mine Plans (large, zoomable) - Pandora Mine Underground Plan Overlap With Hafna Mine Plan; 1 pages
- BGS - Mine Plans (large, zoomable) - Plan Of Reservoir And Hafna Mine; 1 pages
- BGS - Mine Plans (large, zoomable) - Plan Of Reservoir Hafna Mine; 1 pages
- Hafna Lead Mine; 2 pages
- Palmer, Marilyn and Neaverson, Peter (1989); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 10-6 Win - Comparative Archaeology of Tin and Lead Dressing in Britain during the Nineteenth Century, The; 32 pages (316-347)
- Shaw, Donald L. (1971); Gwydyr Forest in Snowdonia - a History (of Forestry); 140 pages
