Welsh Mining Museums
 The following museums are located in Wales and are either wholly or partly devoted to mining.

Coal Mines

'Big Pit' - NMGW
Monmouthshire.
Rhondda Heritage Park Glamorganshire.
South Wales Miners Museum West Glamorganshire.
Cefn Coed Colliery Museum West Glamorganshire.

Metal Mining

Llywernog Silver-Lead Mining Museum Cardiganshire.
Minera Lead Mining Museum & Country Park Clwyd.
Great Orme Mines, Bronze Age Mining Centre Gwynedd.
Another site for Great Orme Mines
Sygun Copper Mine
Snowdonia, Gwynedd.
Dolaucothi Gold Mines Carmarthenshire.
Bryntail Lead Mine - Free Access
Powys.

 Slate Quarries

Welsh Slate Museum Padarn Country Park, Llanberis, Gwynedd.
Llechwedd Slate Caverns Blaenau Ffestiniog, Gwynedd.
Another site for Llechwedd Slate Caverns
Chwarel Hen Llanfair Slate Caverns Gwynedd.
King Arthur's Labyrinth
(Note: Not a mining museum as such, but an 'underground experience' in a disused Slate Quarry)		 Machynlleth, Powys.
If you find any other sites covering Welsh mining museums, please let me know using the form below and I'll update the list.  Many thanks.


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