Site levelled, part used as local rubbish tip. Chimney is intact, and has adit behind it driven on a vein of quartz and nothing else.
Stone hammers may indicate ancient working.
| Year | Activity |
|---|---|
| 1740s | Flintshire based company operates mine for a profil. |
| c1840s | Operated on large scale by Matthew Francis. |
| 1846 | Conditions not being suitable for water power, a 36inch rotative water engine is installed by a Mr West. Flat rods connected to 28fm Engine Shaft and planned to pump Fearon’ Shaft. Also powered stamps. Only few tons or ore raised and company founders following a poor report by Captain J Paull of Tavistock. |
| c 1847 | Plant including engine sold. |
| c 1850 | A new company called Taliesyn starts work, but they have to re-equip the mine follwing sale of assets. ‘Puffer’ engine obtained from Aberystwyth foundry and installed by a Mr Green. |
| 1854 | Bottoms drained. |
| 1856 | 232 of lead ore sold after drainage. This though was not a massive profit, so owners decide to raise capital by forming a company. Steam power having proved expensive, proposal to pump via flat rods across the marsh from a wheel at Taliesyn. Venture foundered and ended up in Court fo Chancery. |
Publications (11)
- (1857); Taliesyn Day Book; 1 pages
- (1922); BGS - Mineral Resources of GB (c1920s) Vol XX - Lead and Zinc: Cardiganshire & West Montogmeryshire; 242 pages
- (1922); BGS - Mineral Resources of GB (c1920s) Vol XX - Lead and Zinc: Cardiganshire & West Montogmeryshire; 242 pages
- Barnatt, Johna and Haddon Thomas, Garth (1998); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 13-5 Sum - Prehistoric Mining at Ecton, Staffordshire - A Dated Antler Tool and its Context; 7 pages (72-78)
- Bick, D.E. (1991); Old Metal Mines of Mid-Wales, The; North of Goginan - Part 3; pp. 42
- Hughes, Simon J.S. (2004); WMPT Newsletter April - Talybont - Some Recent work on Ancient Mining in Mid Wales; 15 pages
- Louis, Henry (1896); Treatise on Ore Deposits -Cardiganshire; 12 pages
- 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)
- Timberlake, Simon (2015); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 19-3 Sum - New investigations and new ideas on Prehistoric-Roman metal mining and smelting in Wales; 10 pages (21-30)
- Verran, William (1854); Taliesyn Mine - Company Report; 1 pages
- Williams, J.G. & Williams, William (1857); Taliesyn Mine - Company Report; 4 pages
