Pantmawr

aka Silver Bank, Silver Mountain, Imperial, Silver Hill Consols, or South Rheidiol


Lead Mine

Worked from 1857 to late 19C

Jan 1st, 2024 from Cambrian by Buddle-Bot

Nov 17th, 2024 by BertyBasset



Mid Wales
Vae of Rheidiol
52.3887062, -3.902962
SN 7059 7845
Private Land
280m
264t
#672


There is theoretical through trip her from adit to Nantglas lode, exiting in the Rheidiol Valley 1000ft below. State of adit, let alone connection unknown.



Scene of much speculation as these names suggest:

Year Company
1857-58 Pantmawr
1859-61 Silver Bank
1862-66 Silver Mountain
1867-70 Imperial
1871-73 Silver Hill Consols
1876 South Rheidiol

Henry Curwen Salmon wrote the following - referring to the Silver Mountain Company’s Prospectus in his short lived publication The Mining & Smelting Magazine:

We are scarcely suprised at the statement that, from careful surveys a rich course of recently intersected is estimated from 80 to 10 fathoms long “ and contains at least £30,000 worth of ore above the adit level; the amount below being incalculable.“ Well may Captain Tregonning, manager of the Grogwithion Mines, one of the reporters on this mine, ask: Where is there in Cardiganshire such a great chance of making profits; or, where is there in this country such a long distance driven in a deep adit, on such a splendid lode? Where indeed Captain Tregonning ! Captain Matthew Franics seems to be connected with this concern, which is to be hoped will prove an exception to the other mines in this county he has the means of bringing before the public, during the last seventeen or eighteen years, every one of which have ended in failure..

Worked by adit some distance below road. Later, a level was driven eastwards that connected with workings on the Nantglas Lode.


Publications (3)

  • (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. 31-32
  • Shaw, R.P. and Critchley, M.F. (1978); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 07-2 Oct - Two Cardiganshire Lead Mines - Caegynon and Rheidol United; 18 pages (69-86)





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