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In 1527, two men bought the rights to mine on the site, but deeper workings were unworkable due to the presence of underground rivers, and the inability to prevent flooding. The inability to pay for steam engines to pump out water closed the mines again until 1845, when John Taylor & Sons, mining
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for transport nationally, and coal brought back. The line was lifted in 1914 when the mines closed, but was relaid again in the 1920s to serve two silica clay pits (Graig Fawr quarry and Tir Celyn quarry) which were run by Minera Silica
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John Taylor & Sons had used a £30,000 investment at the time, yet the profits for 1864 alone were £60,000 (equivalent to over £4 Million in 2008). By 1900, the price of lead and zinc had fallen dramatically, while the price of
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Flintshire, formed the Minera Mining Company. They were able to build a stationary steam engine on site, and also blast caves from down in the valley into the mines, for extra drainage. The steam engine was a
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were in the 1990 development plan, but were not progressed. Minera Quarry was still in use at the time, and it was not until 2018 that it came under the ownership of the
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used for the steam engine rose. The stationary steam engine stopped work in 1909. The owners sold off the mines and all assets by 1914.
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hired miners from the site to work in his new mines in Devon. Not all of them vacated the area, however, as mining went on until the
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