Visited whilst in N Wales earlier in the summer.
I think it has been mined on and off , mainly for copper, since Roman times. The site is of significant from an archeaological, historical and biological point of view so please treat with respect.
The 'crater' is enormous! - caused partly by open cast mining and partly by collapsed workings. There are shafts and adits everywhere.
The colours of the heaps of spoil are amazing, varying through pink, to ochre, to purple. It's supposed to look most striking at sunset - we were there about midday.
The site is owned by Anglesey Mining. There is a waymarked walk round the site. There is one area of active opencast, and also the headstock of a shaft created in the 90s. Deep mining was stopped when the price of minerals dropped. I'm surprised they haven't started again given the price of copper now.
Apparently it has been used as a location for Doctor Who and Mortal Kombat. Fred Dibnah also filmed there.
Some general shots. The windmill you can see was used to pump water out of the shafts. It's obviously a windy spot as there were a couple of wind farms close by.
Badly sealed off shaft!
After they had extracted as much ore as they could from the workings, they then pumped water through. The ore rich water was then collected in ponds. Scrap iron was dumped into the ponds and the copper then was precipitated out onto the scrap iron. The scrap iron was then removed (not sure after how long) and the copper scraped off.
chemistry not my strong point. that's the best i could do
Perygl!!!!
Engine house
I think it has been mined on and off , mainly for copper, since Roman times. The site is of significant from an archeaological, historical and biological point of view so please treat with respect.
The 'crater' is enormous! - caused partly by open cast mining and partly by collapsed workings. There are shafts and adits everywhere.
The colours of the heaps of spoil are amazing, varying through pink, to ochre, to purple. It's supposed to look most striking at sunset - we were there about midday.
The site is owned by Anglesey Mining. There is a waymarked walk round the site. There is one area of active opencast, and also the headstock of a shaft created in the 90s. Deep mining was stopped when the price of minerals dropped. I'm surprised they haven't started again given the price of copper now.
Apparently it has been used as a location for Doctor Who and Mortal Kombat. Fred Dibnah also filmed there.
Some general shots. The windmill you can see was used to pump water out of the shafts. It's obviously a windy spot as there were a couple of wind farms close by.
Badly sealed off shaft!
After they had extracted as much ore as they could from the workings, they then pumped water through. The ore rich water was then collected in ponds. Scrap iron was dumped into the ponds and the copper then was precipitated out onto the scrap iron. The scrap iron was then removed (not sure after how long) and the copper scraped off.
chemistry not my strong point. that's the best i could do
Perygl!!!!
Engine house
