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I was trying to find out any information about the Brynkir Gold Exploration Syndicate who owned the Gilfach and Cwm Ciprwth copper mines in Snowdonia in the 1890s. The Syndicate appear as the owners (though in liquidation) in the 1896 list of Carnarvonshire metal mines (compiled by the Le Neve Foster the mine inspector) which the PDMHS has thankfully posted on the internet. Bizarrely the BGES’ offices are given as being in St Mawes in Cornwall. St Mawes is of course hundred miles away from North Wales and was at that time a small fishing village with no connection with mining whatsoever. Can anyone explain this anomaly? Is the presence of a Cornish made waterwheel at Cwm Ciprwth a coincidence? Russell Bennett