Berrnard
Thanks alot for this information.
It's very interesting
Regards
Gill
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From: "Bernard Moore" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, October 02, 2006 12:41 PM
Subject: Convicts in UK mines - etc.
> Dear Gill,
>
> Map Ref. for the 'obscure' mine working in Artists Valley (Cwm Einion),
> 690
> 946
>
> On the 2.5" it shows as "Works (Disused)". There is a drivable road up to
> the place, and it is known as Tyn-y-garth (name on map). Per my prev., it
> used
> to be a 'rough & ready' Forestry Comm. 'yard' - whether it is still used
> as
> such I don't know - but I am sure no-one will mind a passing visit as you
> wish
> to do. A powerful E-W 'mineralised fault' is in this vicinity, and, during
> the late 1980's I had took out a License from the FC on a section a short
> distance to the W of the 'yard' (about 200m to the W and over a run of
> about
> 400m), near a small 'quarry' used for forestry road building ballast.
> Minor
> 'prospecting' was done by JCB for a short while, and proved a wide shatter
> zone
> with minor cerrussite dispersed throughout, however, while stone was being
> excavated from the 'quarry' a 'significant bunch' of galena was met with.
> Remnants of this 'bunch' were seen in the bedrock of the floor of the
> 'quarry' when
> scraped clean - nothing startling other than veinlets and small pockets of
> galena. It is curious that whilst someone went to the trouble of sinking
> some
> trial shafts at the above map ref., that they didn't look further West;
> particularly as this fault can be noticed at surface where I looked. As a
> friend
> said at the time, "if the 'old man' had found this they would have put
> down a
> shaft without hesitation" As we all know, some quite large and expensive
> 'trials' were done with next to nothing showing! So, one can only assume
> that what
> went on at Tyn-y-garth could well have been done late-in-the-day so to
> speak; also, with the Bryn-Dyfi mine being only a short distance away to
> the South
> (this a classic example of a 'fiddle'), maybe this didn't help the
> Tyn-y-garth 'prospect' very much. Anyway, a strange place one way and
> another, and a
> pity it didn't receive the sort of exploration attention that other places
> did
> in the Cards. mining heydays - I doubt whether there is anything
> 'commercial' there in todays world, but it would have been 'nice' to have
> known what was
> there all the same!
>
> I will dig out the MJ ref. shortly.
>
> Regards, Bernard
>
>
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