Griffin Mine consists of a series of gated levels up the hillside behind the Aberllyn mill. Workings on 5 levels. The top, westerly workings are the Pen-yr-allt workings working the E-W Penyrallt Lode and were originally independent.
The lower Griffin workings on two Nw_SE lodes are on the site of the old 1860s Cwmlanerch Mine, and are not connected to the Griffin workings higher up the hill.
The Deep Adit - or Griffin #1 (formerly Cwmlanerch #1) is between the road and the railway line
Bruner Mond took over the workings at the turn of the 20C, and drove a Haulage Level to tram ore direct to the Aberllyn Mill.
External Links
Publications (5)
- (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) - Aberllyn And Penrallt Mine West Workings; 1 pages
- BGS - Mine Plans (large, zoomable) - Penrallt And Aberllyn Mines; 1 pages
- BGS - Mine Plans (large, zoomable) - Penrallt Mine Longitudinal Section; 1 pages
