Together with Esgair Hir, termed the Welsh Potosi by William Waller of the Mine Adventurers, alluding to the same named silver mines of Peru.
The interlinked histories of the two mines are best studied by reading Bick.
144 tons of lead ore, 2,690 copper ore returned.
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Publications (22)
- (1922); BGS - Mineral Resources of GB (c1920s) Vol XX - Lead and Zinc: Cardiganshire & West Montogmeryshire; 242 pages
- (1922); BGS - Mineral Resources of GB (c1920s) Vol XX - Lead and Zinc: Cardiganshire & West Montogmeryshire; 242 pages
- (1925); BGS - Mineral Resources of GB (c1920s) Vol XXX - Copper Ores: Midlands, Lake District & N Wales; 102 pages
- (1980); WMS Newsletter Issue 02, December ; 5 pages
- (1981); WMS Newsletter Issue 03, June ; 4 pages
- (1986); WMS Newsletter Issue 15 Dec; 4 pages
- (1993); WMS Newsletter Issue 29 Dec; 8 pages
- (1994); WMS Newsletter Issue 31 Dec; 10 pages
- (2000); WMS Newsletter Issue 42 Apr; 8 pages
- (2001); WMS Newsletter Issue 45 Dec; 14 pages
- (2003); WMS Newsletter Issue 48 Apr; 32 pages
- Bick, D.E. (1991); Old Metal Mines of Mid-Wales, The; North of Goginan - Part 3; pp. 53-61
- Foster-Smith, J.R.; NMRS (1979); British Mining 12 - Mines of Cardiganshire, The; ISBN 0 901450 14 6; pp.19-21,29,46
- Hall, G.W. (2014); Welsh Mines & Mining - Metal Mining in Mid Wales 1822-1921; 131 pages
- Hughes, Simon J.S. (1981); Bwlchglas Mine; 22 pages
- Hughes, Simon J.S. (1988); UK Journal of Mines & Minerals No 5 - Decline of Mining in Mid Wales and Prospects of Revival, The; 10 pages
- Hughes, Simon J.S. (2006); 30 Years of Prospecting in Cardiganshire; 5 pages
- Liscombe & Co (1880); Mines of Cardiganshire, Montgomereyshire & Shropshire; 52 pages
- NMRS; Newsletter Aug/1979; pp.2
- NMRS; Newsletter Sep/1977; pp.5
- 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)
- Palmer, Marilyn; NMRS (1983); British Mining 22; "The Richest in All Wales" - The Welsh Potosi or Esgair Hir & Esgair Fraith
