Hafan

aka Caninog, Kaninog, or Cyneiniog

Lead, Zinc, and Copper Mine
Worked from 1620 to 1900

Jan 1st, 2024 from Cambrian by Buddle-Bot

Dec 21st, 2024 by BertyBasset


Mid Wales
Nant y Moch
52.4746704, -3.871552
SN 7298 8795
Private Land
355m
#453

Extensive dumps. 250fm deep adir. Incline, shaft other adits and opencuts.

Despite the deep adit, never linked underground to Henfwlch.

Year Activity
c1620 Two lodes exploited by Sir Hugh Myddleton under the name Caninog or Bwlch Caninog.
1702 William Waller and the Mine Adventurers take on the mine, several hundred tons of lead ore being raised.
c1800 Job Sheldon & Co reputadly made very good profit. Also at the east part of the sett, worked the same lode as Henfwlch
1850 Mining Company of Wales start deep adit driven under, and well beyond Hafan and under Henfwlch.
1853 Adit continued by Hafan and Henfwlch Co with Chairman James Stride, and MIchael Barbery managing operations. Davies Shaft sunk below shallow adit to meet a rise from deep adit. Pumping wheel and leat for sinking below deep adit built.
1854 With no improvement in Hafan or Henfwlch, company folds.
1856 Both mines working under a Captain Hughes.
1864 Another company takes possession. 4 men driving deep adit. Sheldon’s shaft repaired.
1867 By 1867 600 tons of lead ore sold - mainly from Henfwlch.
1889/90 Mines opened sporadically over previous years, 17 tons sold 89/90

Publications (19)

  • (1922); BGS - Mineral Resources of GB (c1920s) Vol XX - Lead and Zinc: Cardiganshire & West Montogmeryshire; 242 pages
  • (1990); WMS Newsletter Issue 22 Jun; 8 pages
  • (2001); WMS Newsletter Issue 44 Apr; 10 pages
  • (2001); WMS Newsletter Issue 45 Dec; 14 pages
  • Anon; Hafan-Henfwlch; 1 pages
  • Bick, D.E. (1991); Old Metal Mines of Mid-Wales, The; North of Goginan - Part 3; pp. 46
  • Edited by D. J. Linton (2009); Welsh Mines & Mining - The Lode of History; 122 pages
  • Edited by D. J. Linton (2012); Welsh Mines & Mining - Towards a Better Understanding - New Research on Old Mines; 152 pages
  • Foster-Smith, J.R.; NMRS (1979); British Mining 12 - Mines of Cardiganshire, The; ISBN 0 901450 14 6; pp.45-46.
  • Hughes, S.J.S.; NMRS (1990); British Mining 40 - Darren Mines, The; ISBN 0901450 36 7; pp.7,33-34.
  • Hughes, Simon J.S. (1976); Cardiganshire - Its Mines and Miners; 52 pages
  • Hughes, Simon J.S. (1981); Bwlchglas Mine; 22 pages
  • Naylor, Peter (1981); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 08-1 Jun - Sir Hugh Myddelton The First Mines Adventurer; 6 pages (54-59)
  • NMRS; British Mining 100 - Memoirs 2015; pp.63.
  • NMRS; British Mining 37 - Memoirs 1988; pp.45.
  • NMRS; British Mining 80 - Memoirs 2006; pp.67-68,81.
  • NMRS; Memoirs 1967; pp.15.
  • NMRS; Newsletter Feb/1979; pp.9.
  • Shaw, R.P. (1982); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 08-3 Sum - Bwlch Glas Lead Mine, Cardiganshire; 6 pages (187-192)

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