A picture of the Engine Shaft c1882 is shown on the cover of Bick’s Volume 2. Today much is in scrub, but wheelpit, drawing machine pit and remains of crusher house can still be seen.
May be prehistoric as stone hammers have been found.
Two lodes were tried but only 9 tons of lead ore was sold in 1882. An attempt at reopening under the name of Silver Stream Mining Company was made in the early 1900s.
Publications (8)
- (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; South of Goginan - Part 2; pp. 45
- Cressey, M. and Pickin J. and Hicks, K. (2004); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 15-6 Win - Silver Rig, Pibble and Woodhead Mines, Galloway, Scotland, The; 14 pages (49-62)
- Hughes, Simon J.S. (1976); Cardiganshire - Its Mines and Miners; 52 pages
- Hughes, Simon J.S. (1990); UK Journal of Mines & Minerals No 8, Autumn - Llywernog Mine and Museum, Dyfed, Wales; 8 pages
- Liscombe & Co (1880); Mines of Cardiganshire, Montgomereyshire & Shropshire; 52 pages
- Murchison, J.H. (1869); Lead Mines as an Investment; 34 pages
- Timberlake, Simon (2015); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 19-3 Sum - New investigations and new ideas on Prehistoric-Roman metal mining and smelting in Wales; 10 pages (21-30)
