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Pant-y-Gaseg Mine, Amlwch, Isle of Anglesey (Gwynedd; Anglesey), Wales, UK Pant-y Gaseg adit, driven c1860. This is the type locality for dickite. Photo taken 8 July 2009. |
| © ian jones | Photo ID: 240920 View Count: 33 |
Adit entrance, Great Opencast Parys Mine | |
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Parys Mountain Mines (Paris Mine; Parys Mine; Mona Mine; Morfa Du Mine), Amlwch, Isle of Anglesey (Gwynedd; Anglesey), Wales, UK Inviting looking adit entrance in the Great Opencast, Parys Mine! Photo taken 12 June 2008. |
| © ian jones | Photo ID: 216252 View Count: 51 |
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Parys Mountain Mines (Paris Mine; Parys Mine; Mona Mine; Morfa Du Mine), Amlwch, Isle of Anglesey (Gwynedd; Anglesey), Wales, UK Rear face of Anglesey copper mine half penny token, dated 1791. Ian Jones collection. The Parys Mountain tokens (pennies & halfpennies) were first struck in 1787 and continued in various forms until 1817. |
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Capped shaft | |
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Parys Mountain Mines (Paris Mine; Parys Mine; Mona Mine; Morfa Du Mine), Amlwch, Isle of Anglesey (Gwynedd; Anglesey), Wales, UK Capped (and blocked) shaft on the Parys Mine set. When I first used to explore these mines this shaft was uncapped and open down to water within the workings. If you lobbed a big rock down it, there used to be a wait of a couple of seconds and then a huge "boom". This would reverberate for ages as the waves richocheted off the stope ... |
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Dressing Floor, Mona mine | |
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Parys Mountain Mines (Paris Mine; Parys Mine; Mona Mine; Morfa Du Mine), Amlwch, Isle of Anglesey (Gwynedd; Anglesey), Wales, UK Know as Charlotte's yard, this is where the mine's "copper ladies" worked. Michael Faraday (1791-1867), the celebrated chemist and physicist who contributed significantly to the study of electromagnetism and electrochemistry, visited the mine in 1819 and described their work thus. "The ore is raised from the mine by the whimsy in large ... |
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Great Opencast, Parys Mine | |
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Parys Mountain Mines (Paris Mine; Parys Mine; Mona Mine; Morfa Du Mine), Amlwch, Isle of Anglesey (Gwynedd; Anglesey), Wales, UK Looking southwards across the Great Opencast of the Parys Mine. This impressive chasm was worked until around 1820 on the site of earlier under-ground workings. Much visited at the time, it has been recorded in several early paintings that show projecting platforms with windlasses, the miners working the ore suspended on ropes. The remains ... |
| © ian jones | Photo ID: 170335 View Count: 68 |
Great Opencast, Parys Mine | |
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Parys Mountain Mines (Paris Mine; Parys Mine; Mona Mine; Morfa Du Mine), Amlwch, Isle of Anglesey (Gwynedd; Anglesey), Wales, UK Looking northwards across the Great Opencast of the Parys Mine. This impressive chasm was worked until around 1820 on the site of earlier under-ground workings. Much visited at the time, it has been recorded in several early paintings that show projecting platforms with windlasses, the miners working the ore suspended on ropes. The opencast ... |
| © ian jones | Photo ID: 170345 View Count: 57 |
Great Opencast, Parys Mine | |
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Parys Mountain Mines (Paris Mine; Parys Mine; Mona Mine; Morfa Du Mine), Amlwch, Isle of Anglesey (Gwynedd; Anglesey), Wales, UK Looking eastwards along the Great Opencast of the Parys Mine. This impressive chasm was worked until around 1820 on the site of earlier under-ground workings. Much visited at the time, it has been recorded in several early paintings that show projecting platforms with windlasses, the miners working the ore suspended on ropes. The opencast ... |
| © ian jones | Photo ID: 170348 View Count: 73 |
Headframe - Parys Mountain | |
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Parys Mountain Mines (Paris Mine; Parys Mine; Mona Mine; Morfa Du Mine), Amlwch, Isle of Anglesey (Gwynedd; Anglesey), Wales, UK Modern headframe on Morris Shaft at the western end of the Parys Mountain orebodies in the White Rock area, to the north of the old opencast workings. The headframe was erected at by Anglesey Mining plc, which was formed in 1984 to explore and develop the Parys Mountain property. In 1988 the shaft was sunk to a depth of 300m, with more than 1 ... |
| © ian jones | Photo ID: 128507 View Count: 84 |
Mine Buildings, Mona Mine | |
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Parys Mountain Mines (Paris Mine; Parys Mine; Mona Mine; Morfa Du Mine), Amlwch, Isle of Anglesey (Gwynedd; Anglesey), Wales, UK Remains of the Mona Mine yard. The assay office, counting house, blacksmith and general offices for the management of the mine were located here. photo taken 12 June 2008 |
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