This 1 still movesYes it is Prince Edward - well done Robin.
Ian - you need to go back if you think there isn't a lot to see. There's one of the finest in-situ jackrolls that I have ever seen!
Chris.
Prince Edward/Bwlch y Lle is indeed an interesting mine. I surveyed the surface around here in the early 70s for a Canadian Mining corporation. The prospects for commercial exploitation are poor. I last went there in 2013 and found a very substantial wooden closure of the adit entrance had been installed fairly recently, judging by the freshness of the wood. There were dramatic warning notices. The late Si Hughes told me the land was part of a large parcel of mineral rights leased by a company involved with Clogau, but that they had no intention of doing any work at Bwlch y Lle. In 1971 I picked up an elderly hitch hiker in a back lane near Trawsfynydd who had worked at the mine before the Second World War. The little alcove with a steel gate on the right just inside the adit entrance was supposedly for the storage of rich ore.
Half a century ago I stood at the top of the stope and thought better of a solo descent. There was a huge amount of arsenopyrite lying around at Llanberis Mine.Llanberis it is. Stopes at the top of Western Workings. Generally Eastern workings get visited, although I have read one hair rising account of this stope being descended. There used to be some nice photos of Llanberis Mine on Adit Now.