A prominent restored site opposite the Geirionydd junction of the Gwydyr Forest road. Both the Shallow and Deep adits have been blocked. The Engine Shaft is also blocked whereas the 120’ deep Western Shaft is open but capped. Workings were mainly on the western end of the ENE-WSW Principal lode, with some work on the NW-SE Cyffty Lode. The former lode was also worked at Parc, which was connected to Cyffty during it’s final years of mining.
| Year | Activity |
|---|---|
| 1847 | Reported that sett leased from the Pencraig Estate. |
| 1851 | Pencraig Lead Mining Company |
| 1866 | Cyffty, together with Coed Mawr Pool and Ffriddllechwedd operated as The Carnarvonshire Consolidated Lead Mines Company Ltd. |
| 1868 | Company in financial jeopadry, and sett re-possesed by E Wynne Thomas. |
| 1871 | Thomas Goddard & Company |
| 1877 | Bettws-y-Coed Lead Mining Association |
| 1880-89 | Bettws-y-Coed Lead Mining Association Ltd. |
| 1889-1908 | Cyffty Lead Mining Company Ltd. |
| 1909-15 | Care and maintenance |
| 1915 | Mineral Oils & General Exploration Company Ltd. |
| 1917-21 | Great Challinor Mines Ltd. |
| 1922-25 | Metallurgical and Mining Syndicate Ltd. |
| 1925-29 | British Oils Ltd. |
External Links
Publications (8)
- (1922); BGS - Mineral Resources of GB (c1920s) Vol XXIII - Lead & Zinc: Pre-Carboniferous Shropshire & North Wales; 111 pages
- Bennet & Vernon (1993); Mines of the Gwydyr Forest, Book 5 - Coed Mawr Pool, Cyffty and other mines in South Gwydyr
- BGS - Mine Plans (large, zoomable) - Bettws-Y-Coed (llanrwst)mine,als Known As Cyffty Mine; 1 pages
- BGS - Mine Plans (large, zoomable) - Old Lead Mines (cyffty And Western Shafts); 1 pages
- BGS - Mine Plans (large, zoomable) - Old Lead Mines (cyffty And Western Shafts); 1 pages
- Jones, W.G. and Willies, L. (1975); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 06-1 May - Impressions of visits to Parc Mine, North Wales; 2 pages (47-48)
- 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
