Gwaith yr Afon

aka West Cwmsymlog


Lead Mine

Jan 1st, 2024 from Cambrian by Buddle-Bot

Nov 29th, 2024 by BertyBasset



Mid Wales
Cwmsymlog
52.4378166, -3.929647
SN 6892 8396
Open Access
200m
#446


Engine shaft and balance pit. Adits are difficult to access due to forestry.



An unsucessful trial promoted at various times as:

Year Name
1862-3 West Cwmsymlog
1864-5 Cwmsymlog United
1868-70 Cwm Darren
1878 River Mine

The Cwmsymlog and Darren lode are said to intersect here, where two or three shafts were sunk. A foot of solid lead was reported. An adit was driven 130 ft W of the engine shaft, in good ore. However, despite talk of buddles and drawing machine, little work was being done - a Jan 1870 Mining Journal article asking: ‘WIll some reader be kind enough to tell me whether Cwm Darren is worked at present , , , there is often reports from Cardiganshire mines, but how is there nothing about Cwm Darren’


Publications (2)

  • (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; North of Goginan - Part 3; pp. 19





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