Lode parallel with Cennant Brook, with series of trials and opencuts over 500m and visible on the OS Map.
Adit, engine shaft, dressing floors
| Year | Activity |
|---|---|
| 1849 | Leased briefly by the Taylors by which time the mine was already old. |
| 1860s | Another company raised much ore by stripping the wall of the lode. |
| 1869 | Report by Captain Thomas Ball of Lisburne Mines: Old miners had gone down 20fm below adit, the Taylors put in a small pump worked by flatrods from a 8 ft waterwheel. Lode reported to be 2.5 to 4 feet wide, and the mine bottoms were flooded. |
Total output 72 tons of lead ore, 62 tons of blende.
Publications (3)
- (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. 31
- Liscombe & Co (1880); Mines of Cardiganshire, Montgomereyshire & Shropshire; 52 pages
