Pantmawr Mine, Devil's Bridge, Upper Llanfihangell-y-Creuddyn, Ceredigion, Wales, UK
Dark sphalerite with rust coloured weathering on the surface. The box is 50mm x 50mm. July, 2020.
Calcite is found as pieces up to double adult fist size, the box here is 50mm x 50mm. July, 2020.
Cerussite, whilst abundant at this site, is not of notable quality. July, 2020
A single piece of galena with bright broken surfaces, collected July, 2020. The box is 75mm x 50mm
Blue linarite surrounding an undetermined green mineral. July, 2020.
The water just inside the entrance must be well over waist deep so no I didn't. July, 2020.
I did not get the opportunity to look for minerals here but this is probably around a shaft collar as it is on a direct line from the adit entrance behind the photograph to the shaft collar on the side of the road just below the round tree on the skyline. July, 2020
Reproduced under the not for commercial use permission from Old Maps UK Mostly lying down the hillside to the north of the Aberystwyth to Devil's Bridge road. There is however a shaft on the verge of the road to the south where the square is in the field marked 220, whereas the shaft marked on the map to the west is no longer apparent. The ...
Deeply flooded but note the abrupt change in the dip of the beds around the entrance and also that the thicker beds (30cm) of sandstone and mudstone to the left appear to lie against thin slates to the right suggesting quite some displacement on this fault. July, 2020.
From the bridleway showing the tips running off down the narrow valley to the left. However, given that these contain a great deal of crushed sand and presumably there was more that has been washed away by the spring that rises in the midst of the tip, where was the crushing plant? None of the site shows evidence of buildings and it is all ...
A close up of the tip showing the inclusion of crushed sand. July 2020.
Spread out down a narrow valley. July, 2020.