Min-Hist Biblio

Griffin digging in for £4m to help mine Chinese zinc by Cliff Feltham.
Daily Mail 15 July 1999 p 73. Initial studies have suggested resources
of 27m tonnes, giving potential annual revenues of £65m over the 14 year
life of the mine. Any takers?

An Adventure! by Wyn Jones. Y Ddraig Goch / The Red Dragon, Annual
Journal of the Cambrian Caving Council (26) 1999-2000 pp 3 - 4. A trip
report down the Olwyn Goch Shaft to the Milwr Tunnel. Useful
description.

Mining memorial. Anon. Western Mail 20 Aug 1999 p 5. A memorial to
the Tylorstown [sic] No 8 and No 9 pits at Rhondda Fach will be
un-veiled on Friday September 3.

Torfaen: Big Pit aims for world heritage status. Anon. Western Mail 21
August 1999 p 6 illus.

Avoca / Our Mining Heritage by Alan Thomas and Padar McArdle 1998
[20pp] illus. No price given. Pub Geological Survey of Ireland.

Thomas Sopwith Surveyor; An exercise in self-help by R. Sopwith [a
relation] 1994 HB £15 50 Pub. The Pentland Press 266pp illus.
Chapter 11 Dean Forest Commissioner gives and interesting insight into
mining in the Forest of Dean in the 1820’s.

120 mining jobs lost. Anon. Western Mail 3 September 1999 p 3.
Aberpergwm at Neath and Fforest and Tyn y Wern to close due to high
pound.

Metal: Future still golden for Anglesey mines. Anon. Western Mail
Business World 18 September 1999, p 17. Losses for the year March 31
rose to £111,465 from £97,551 in 1998.

Merthyr: Gold dust in the coal dust claim. Anon. Western Mail 20
September p 3. Gold may be found deep below some of the worst coal-tip
eyesore in Wales. Details of gold claims revealed at the public enquiry
in the compulsory purchase of land at Ffos-y-Fran.

Environment: Holywell eyesore has transformed derelict mine site into
flower meadow. Anon. Western Mail 20 September 1999 p 7. The Hannah
shaft at Lower Trelogan Mines closed in 1911. The 5 acre site had been
re-contoured and re-seeded by the Welsh Development Authority and the
Flintshire County Council. Corporate vandalism?


Contributed by Tony Oldham, Specialist Bookseller for Mines and Caves.


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