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Offline DavE Hughes

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Copper mine
« on: Monday 04 May 20 14:41 BST (UK) »
Does anyone have any information about an alleged copper mine (The Hamlet Copper Mine?) in the Porthdafarch area of Holyhead,Anglesey, near an inlet called Copper Mine Creek on OS maps. It is said that the Romans mined copper there and it was started up again in the 1850's to the 1880's, but i have also been told that it was an elaborate con to raise money from investors and grants.

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Re: Copper mine
« Reply #1 on: Monday 04 May 20 17:14 BST (UK) »
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Re: Copper mine
« Reply #2 on: Monday 04 May 20 17:16 BST (UK) »
Can't help you with the specific mine or the scam, but there certainly is copper on anglesey, and mines, and I seem to think, a good museum, too. As it'll probably not be open under present conditions, a 'phone call or e-mail to an Anglesey paper may help with further information. Good luck.
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Re: Copper mine
« Reply #3 on: Monday 04 May 20 17:57 BST (UK) »
Thank you Yorky, it was the chap in the Stone Science Museum in Pentraeth on Anglesey who told me it could well have been be a scam.

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Re: Copper mine
« Reply #4 on: Tuesday 05 May 20 15:37 BST (UK) »
Ah, sorry.
Threlfall (Southport), Isherwood (lancs & Canada), Newbould + Topliss(Derby), Keating & Cummins (Ireland + lancs), Fisher, Strong& Casson (all Cumberland) & Downie & Bowie, Linlithgow area Scotland . Also interested in Leigh& Burrows,(Lancashire) Griffiths (Shropshire & lancs), Leaver (Lancs/Yorks) & Anderson(Cumberland and very elusive)
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