Goginan

aka Troed Rhiw United


Lead and Silver Mine

Worked from 1660 to 1926

Jan 1st, 2024 from Cambrian by Buddle-Bot

Nov 23rd, 2024 by BertyBasset


Mid Wales
Goginan
52.4202385, -3.92925
SN 6890 8200
Private Land
195m
260m
25,000t
#427

Site bulldozed. Only remains is portal to Taylor’s inclined plane.

Could be as old as Roman, as Roman coints found.

Year Activity
c1620 Sir Hugh Middleton worked the mine for silver.
1640s Worked by Thomas Bushell who made a great fortune.
1700 Mackworth and William Waller, under the auspices of the Mine Adventurers made Goginan an early objective. Waller started by driving a level under the old stopes, commenting in 1706 to Mackworth ‘It proves a glorious work.. I doubt not but it will shortly be as wide as the Old Man had it, which was six or seven foot’. A few months later, he reported ‘the up forehead in Goginan the last Thursday was a yard wide full of small sparks of ore’.
1710 Mine Addenturers had only raised 20 tons of ore by this date.
1744 Mine still held by the Mine Adventurers.
1834 Arrival of John Taylor & Sons to Cardiganshire. At this date mine was owned by Samuel Hughes, and Aberystwyth solicitor who had not done much with it.
1836 The Taylors take a 21 year lease under manager Captain James Davey, who started clearing the 17C deep adit.
1847 Matthew Francis in charge.
1840 Machinery installed to support productiojn of 100 tons or ore a month.Rather than a shaft. an incline was provided as a manway and also for drawing ore, this eventually powered by 36 foot waterwheel.
1846 BGS note 12 waterwheels at work, Taylors’s Shaft down to 110 m level with 400 men at work. 11,246 tons of ore raised in past 10 years.
c1850 £5 shares changing hands for £250.
1852 Taylor’s Shaft reaches final depth of 142 fm, but production had dropped with only 50 men working.
c1880 Closed.

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Publications (20)

  • (1848); BGS - Memoirs Vol II, Part II; 425 pages
  • (1850); Cardiganshire - MJ Articles; 2 pages
  • (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. 35-38
  • Fellows, Roy (2018); Goginan - Notes on Taylor's Incline; 2 pages
  • Highes, Simon J.S.; NMRS (1988); British Mining 35; Goginan Mines, The
  • 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. (2005); Relics of German migration into Cardiganshire.; 11 pages
  • Jarret, Tony; Goginan; 1 pages
  • Jones, Nigel and Walters, Mark and Frost, Pat (2004); Mountains and Orefields; 208 pages
  • Joseph Yelloly Watson (1843); Compendium of British Mining, with Statistical Notices… & Glossary; 97 pages
  • Liscombe & Co (1880); Mines of Cardiganshire, Montgomereyshire & Shropshire; 52 pages
  • Misc; Goginan Various Plans; 1 pages
  • Murchison, J.H. (1869); Lead Mines as an Investment; 34 pages
  • Nancarrow (1919); Nancarrow Cardiganshire Report; 21 pages
  • Naylor, Peter (1981); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 08-1 Jun - Sir Hugh Myddelton The First Mines Adventurer; 6 pages (54-59)
  • 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)
  • Timberlake, Simon (1994); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 12-3 Sum - Archaeological and Circumstantial Evidence for early Mining in Wales; 11 pages (133-143)
  • Tucker, D.G. (1977); Sacking of the Francises by John Taylor 1841-2, The; 5 pages (14-18)
  • Welsh Mines Society (Aut 2011); Newsletter 65

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