All Mine Types

• Ceredigion Mines - Pages by the BBC (with input from Wels Mines Soc. members)

• 'Spirit of the miners' - a community regeneration project managed by Ceredigion County Council

• Llansamlet History - Much on mining and smelting

• Photographic Archive on Welsh Mines & Quarries - High quality images, includes some by John Cornwell

• Wealden Cave and Mine Society - Some photos by WMS member G.Levins

• A General History of Welsh Mining.

• 'Wales Underground' - Promotion of mine & caving attractions in Wales; includes a useful geological discussion on mineral formation.

• Mining History Network Home Page.

• An excellent collection of Aerial Photographs from the NMRW, covering all mine & quarry types, amongst other historic monuments.

• Home Page for North Wales section of The British Mining Database - Gone AWOL !

• Home Page for Mid Wales section of The British Mining Database; Cardiganshire, Montgomeryshire and Radnorshire.

• Home Page for South Wales section of The British Mining Database; Brecknockshire, Pembrokeshire and Glamorganshire.

• A List of Mines in Pembrokeshire and the adjoining parts of Carmarthen and Ceredigion.

• Clwyd and Powys Archaeological Trust - Clwyd-Powys Metal Mines Survey.

• Read about the Metal mines and Slate quarries hidden in the forests of mid and north Wales  (CPAT)

• An ongoing survey by Clwyd & Powys Archaeological Trust of Historic Landscapes in Wales  Includes areas of mining such as the Tanat Valley and Halkyn Mountain.

• 'Quarries, mines and the chapel culture' - British Archaeology, Issue 36, July 1998

• Abandoned Welsh Metal Mines in Wales and their impact on watercourses - A report by the Environment Agency.

• The Welsh Industrial Archaeology Panel

• Cave Diving Groups' 'Welsh Sump Index' On-Line  Go to the mines section for location details and references to the CDG newsletters.

• List of Mines & Quarries visited by the Welsh Mines Society.

Coal Mines

• Pwll Perkins accident at Garnant pit in 1884

• Rhondda Valley Images

• Digging up the Past - Photographic archive of the S.Wales coalfield.

• Welsh Collieries - Not quite all of them !

• Ammanford Collieries and the Garnant Colliery (Pwll Perkins) mining disaster

• CWM - Coalfield Web Material

• Information on the western end of the Pembrokeshire coalfield

• Details of some of the major collieries in Wales, including those where substantial remains still exist.

• Abandoned Small Mines of South Wales - Thomas Imgrunds photographs of these enigmatic workings

• Coal Mining - The Basics - A detailed description by Henry Davies, 1904.  Includes details of accidents and rescues at Welsh Collieries

• Cwmtillery Colliery - Click on 'Colliery' on menu.

• An Americans view of mining in the S.Wales coalfield.

• Thomas Imgrunds' Coal Mines in South Wales & Remaining Headgears in the UK

• Visit Tower Colliery's Lamp Room

• The Coal Mines of the Sirhowy Valley

• Mines in the Cross Keys area, South Wales

• A brief history of the Rhondda Valleys

• Geological Map showing Crosskeys at the South Eastern edge of the South Wales Coalfield.

• In Loving Memory of the 3508 miners who lost their lives in colliery disasters in North Wales, South Wales and Monmouthshire during the past 90 years.

• Alan Andrews 'Former Colliers'  database.  If you've previously worked in a mine in the UK, then enter your details in Alans listing.

• Universal Pit Disaster - Senghenydd.

• Coal Mining History Resource Centre - Focuses on documentary evidence relating to mining disasters, many of which occurred in Wales.

• Welsh Coal Mines - Contains a comprehensive listing (inc. photos and some historical information) of Gwent Coal Mines and other collieries in South Wales.

• Ty Trist Colliery - Glamorganshire  (Part of Ron Hardings page)

• Poem, relating to 1907 disaster at St Genard in S Wales. - 'Don't go down in the Mine Dad'

• Bedwas Navigation Colliery, Monmouthshire

• Betws Anthracite Ltd. A working coal mine near Ammanford, Carmarthenshire.

• Blaenafon Town Home Page.  A few details on local coal mines.

• 'Owned by the Miners - Tower' A photographic exhibition by Roger Tiley.

• Tower Colliery - Includes a history of the Colliery.

• Tower Colliery - Another page

• Mining: it's only a word - A political 'statement' regarding coal mining in South Wales.

• Coal mining in the Llynfi Valley  Part of a site covering the industrial history of the Maesteg area.

• A US based site with some info on coal mining in Wales.

• Brymbo Colliery - Penrhos Engine House Restoration

• Coal Mining in the Rhondda Valleys

• Accounts of Women and Children working in South Wales Coal Mines

Iron Mines

• Wenvoe Haematite Mine Glamorganshire.

Non-Ferrous Metal Mines

• Cambrian Mountains Society webpages covering the mines they have visited.

• A list of metalliferous mines in the UK in 1908

• A new-ish website with photos underground at Aberllyn & Parys Mountain

• Thomas Imgrund's Metal Mines in the UK

• Stoic Mining

• Dolaucothi Gold Mines - CADW

• Welsh Gold Mining in Wales  A very short article on the larger gold mines.

• A page on the Welsh Gold web site for Gwynfynydd Gold Mine - Underground working ceased April 1999.

• Welsh Gold plc - Sellers of pure Welsh Gold, as previously extracted from the underground workings at Gwynfynydd, whose tips are now being reworked by Mark Wheeler.

• Michael Douglas's wedding ring (on his marriage to Catherine Zeta Jones) is made from Welsh Gold.

• Kelvin Jenkins Jewellers, suppliers of Welsh Gold

• Environment Agency Wales continues to work with the Crown Mineral Agents to address potential pollution problems at Gwynfynydd Gold Mine

• Royal Wedding Rings...from the Prince Edward gold mine.

• Clogau Welsh Gold  With an extraction cost of £1,000 per ounce of gold, this jewellery isn't going to be cheap !

• Cambrian Goldfields Ltd. - An active Welsh Goldmining company in Mid/North Wales.

• Pure Welsh Gold

• A series of photographs of industrial Wales - includes Porth Alwm Manganese Mine.

• Manganese Mines of Merionethshire - An excellent site by Dave Linton.

• Manganese Mines of Merionethshire - Another site on these mines, but no longer maintained.

• Cwmciprwth copper mine - good info and pictures by Dave Sallery

• Parys Mountain Copper Mine on Anglesey - History of the Parys Mine on Anglesey, which started operations in 1763

• Great Orme Exploration Soc. Home Page

• Angelsey Mining Plc  A commercial site, but includes photos underground and on the surface at Parys Mountain.  Click on 'Parys Mountain & Amlwch Industrial Heritage Trust', and then on the embedded links in the text for some interesting related historical info.  Take a closer look at the 'Parys Mountain Bronze Age Copper Mine'

• 'The Mines & Mills of Gwydyr Forest' - details of a 7.5 mile walk which takes in some of the surface remains of this once extensive mining area

• The Mines of Llywernog - as originally published in the Nat Lib of Wales Journal

• Bwlchglas Lead & Zinc Mine and details of an accident within.

• Details of a walk amongst some of the mining remains in the Gwydyr Forest

• Ystrad Einion - One of Subterranea Britannica's pages.

• Parc Mine, Gwydyr Forest.

• Exploration of part of the Dylife Mines

• Earliest evidence of lead mining at Cwmystwyth - British Archaeology, Issue 58, April 2001

• Census of England and Wales 1841 Parish of Llancynfelin - Part 2 Includes Lead Miners.

• An outline history of mineral mining in the county of Cardiganshire

• A report on some of the surface remains at Cwmystwyth Mine

• Some photos, underground in the Cwmystwyth Mines

• Llangunnor Lead Mines - Carmarthenshire

• 'Untold Mineral Wealth' An article on the mineral occurances in Wales, by Bevins, R. & Mason, J. et. al.

• A single page on the Great Orme copper mine.

• Llanfyrnach Silver-Lead Mine circa 1752 to 1890

 
• Carmarthen United  An example of undercapitalisation in a mid 19th century lead venture.

• Notes on the exploration of Frongoch and Glogfach & Glogfawr Mines

 
• Mining landscape in Ceredigion (formerly Cardiganshire) Wales.

• Industrial Wales Cwmystwyth Mines.

• British Archaeology, No. 36, July 1998.  Seeking the Origins of Bronze Tools  (Mentions Early Mining)

• Minerals in Mid & South Wales  Untold mineral wealth.

• Water in Mining and Quarrying / July 1997 No. 22.  Remediating "Black Jack" Contamination in Mid-Wales.

• Architecture in Wales Exhibition - Click on 'Industrial, Commercial & Military' for a drawing of Gwaith Coch Lead Mill.

• Abandoned Welsh Metal Mines  A list of those being investigated under the 1997 Mines Protocol.

• Pennant Mine 'preservation'.

• John Masons Photomicrographs of minerals from mines in mid-Wales.

Other Mineral Mines

• Greenhill Ochre Mine  A small 20^th Century ochre working, Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire.

Slate Quarrying

• Cwmorthin - From the 'Simply Exploring' web pages.

• Slate Quarrying in Pembrokeshire - extracts from 'The Pembrokeshire Slate Quarrymen', by Dafydd Roberts

• The Old Slate Industry of Pembrokeshire.... - as originally published in the Nat Lib of Wales Journal

• Sustainable post-industrial land restoration and re-creation of high biodiversity natural habitats - Institute of Environmental Science-University of Wales, Bangor.  Also contains some photographs of Penrhyn Quarry in N.Wales - where a trial has been implemented.

• Slatesite (Gwynedd archives)  Check out the gallery of over 150 photos

• Visit the web site of Alun John Richards - includes updates to his publications on Welsh slate quarries and quarrying.

• Croesor Tramway - Pant Mawr, Croesor & Rhosydd Quarries

• Bryneglwys Slate Quarry, Abergynolwyn.  Roy Fellows reminisces.

• Dave Sallery's pages on the Slate Industry of North and Mid Wales, Rhosydd Slate Quarry and Rhiwbach Slate Quarry and its tramway.

• Chris Cowdreys own page, covers mine exploration in North Wales, mainly slate but some lead too.

• Llechwedd Slate Quarries  Greaves of Portmadoc Slate & trade.

• Greaves Welsh Slate Company

• Alfred MacAlpine Slate  Owners of Penrhyn & Oakley Quarries, the world's largest slate producers.

• Wincilate Ltd, Aberllefenni, Corris   Suppliers of high quality slate from a 300 year old quarry.

• Inigo Jones Slate Works, Groeslon   Original Slate workshops - open to the public.

• Photos of steam locomotives at work at Penrhyn Slate Quarry.

• Site covering the Welsh Slate Museum.

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