Llandegai Iron Mine

aka Penrhyn or Llandygai

Iron Mine
Worked from 1912 to 1921

Jan 1st, 2024 from Unknown by Buddle-Bot

Apr 12th, 2025 by BertyBasset



15 Sep 1928 - Llandegai, near Bangor. Looking N.
North Wales
Llandegai
53.2075424, -4.105196
SH 5950 6990
Private Land
75m
#3,426


Open quarry with three levels following dip underground to 130’ intercepting bottom adit. Dumping of spoil from A55 Bangor Bypass has obliterated the site.



Publications (7)

  • (1920); BGS - Mineral Resources of GB (c1920s) Vol XIII - Iron Ores: Pre Carboniferous bedded ores of England and Wales; 144 pages
  • (1983); WMS Newsletter Issue 08 Jun; 3 pages
  • (1984); WMS Newsletter Issue 10 Jun; 3 pages
  • BGS - Mine Plans (large, zoomable) - Penrhyn Iron Ore Mine Nr Bangor; 1 pages
  • Jarratt, Tony (1981); Logbook 2; 121 pages
  • Robert J.B. Trythall (1988); Mid-Ordovician Oolitic Ironstones of North Wales; 266 pages
  • Wilkinson Jeremy S. (2005);  British Mining No. 78, Memoirs 2005, NMRS; pp. 69-72.


15 Sep 1928 - Llandegai, near Bangor. Looking N.1920 - Penrhyn Iron Mine Llandegai, near Bangor.



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