One of several trials on the Camdwr lode, this one showing appreciable amounts of manganese.
Designated Manganese mine of Old Series one inch map.
| Year | Activity |
|---|---|
| 1854 | Adit and the start of a shaft on site when Matthew Francis announces a discovery of ‘ore of excellent quality, very solid, and bearing strong resemblance to the greatest courses of ore I have seen in Cardiganshire’. |
| 1856 | Engine shaft down below a 20 fm level. 22 tons copper ore and 5 tons lead ore sold. |
| c 1857 | Company dissolved. |
| 1877 | Attempt at re-opening, but no ore produced. |
Publications (10)
- (1922); BGS - Mineral Resources of GB (c1920s) Vol XX - Lead and Zinc: Cardiganshire & West Montogmeryshire; 242 pages
- (1989); CATMHS - Trip Report Easter - Easter Wales Meet; 5 pages
- (1993); WMS Newsletter Issue 28 Jun; 8 pages
- (2005); WMS Newsletter Issue 52 Spring; 28 pages
- Bick, D.E. (1991); Old Metal Mines of Mid-Wales, The; North of Goginan - Part 3; pp. 53
- 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.48.
- Hughes, S.J.S.; NMRS (1990); British Mining 40 - Darren Mines, The; ISBN 0901450 36 7; pp.7,102.
- NMRS; British Mining 100 - Memoirs 2015; pp.63.
- NMRS; British Mining 80 - Memoirs 2006; pp.68-69,81.
