Several parallel lodes to the valley slope gashed by ancient workings, with scree like spoil extending almost down to the river. Shallow, Intermediate and Deep Adits.
Length of Deep Adit, excluding drivages on the lode was 380 fm (700m) 4 lodes: 1, 2, 3 and 4, the later two on the plateau, the former on the valley slope, the adits intersected each. They were also intersected by three shafts: Old, New and Eastern.
The shafts were pumped via long (1/2 mile) runs of flatrods driven by a wheel below Deep Adit.
| Year | Activity |
|---|---|
| 1790’s | Deep Adit continued (or commenced) by Probert (of Level Fawr fame) |
| 1862 | Managed by Captain Tregoning |
| c1875 | Managed by Captain Kitto, when production increased. Minng Engineer Thomas Sopwith JR reports that workings are mainly on No 1 and 2 lodes below the Shallow Adit. Winze sunk towards Intermediate Adit found lode not productive at depth. |
| c1877 | Intermediate and Deep Adits extended eastwards on No 3 lode finding rich ore-body. |
| 1880s | Mine productive up to this point in time, New Shaft sunk 150 fm from surface, 36fm below Deep Adit. |
Publications (17)
- (1922); BGS - Mineral Resources of GB (c1920s) Vol XX - Lead and Zinc: Cardiganshire & West Montogmeryshire; 242 pages
- (1986); WMS Newsletter Issue 14 Jun; 3 pages
- (2000); WMS Newsletter Issue 42 Apr; 8 pages
- (2000); WMS Newsletter Issue 43 Oct; 16 pages
- (2001); WMS Newsletter Issue 44 Apr; 10 pages
- (2001); WMS Newsletter Issue 45 Dec; 14 pages
- Bick, D.E. (1991); Old Metal Mines of Mid-Wales, The; South of Goginan - Part 1; pp.17-18
- Bick, David; NMRS (1986); British Mining 30 - Frongoch Lead & Zinc Mine; ISBN 0901450 47 2; pp.9,44,48.
- Edited by D. J. Linton (2009); Welsh Mines & Mining - The Lode of History; 122 pages
- Edited by D. J. Linton (2018); Welsh Mines & Mining - The Fascination that is in all Mining; 93 pages
- Foster-Smith, J.R.; NMRS (1979); British Mining 12 - Mines of Cardiganshire, The; ISBN 0 901450 14 6; pp.75-76.
- Hall, G.W. (2014); Welsh Mines & Mining - Metal Mining in Mid Wales 1822-1921; 131 pages
- Hughes, S.J.S.; NMRS (1981); British Mining 17 - Cwmystwyth Mines, The; ISBN 0 901450 20 0; pp.13,15.
- Hughes, S.J.S.; NMRS (1988); British Mining 35 - Goginan Mines, The; ISBN 0901450 33 2; pp.21,38,47,49,71.
- Hughes, S.J.S.; NMRS (1990); British Mining 40 - Darren Mines, The; ISBN 0901450 36 7; pp.15,22,56,60,86,100.
- Hughes, Simon J.S. (2006); Miner's Lot, The - Version 2; 13 pages
- Liscombe & Co (1880); Mines of Cardiganshire, Montgomereyshire & Shropshire; 52 pages
