MineArchiveMines in Anglesey
Anglesey's mining story is dominated by a single mountain: Parys Mountain, whose vast opencast workings made it the largest copper mine in Europe during the 1780s and turned the nearby port of Amlwch from a village into one of the busiest harbours in Wales almost overnight. The scale of extraction left a lunar, brightly coloured landscape that still stains the hillside today, and the rival mine owners who exploited the mountain — Anglesey's 'copper kings' — became some of the wealthiest industrialists in 18th-century Britain.
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| Mine | Worked | Commodities |
|---|---|---|
| Aber Quarry | to Still active | Limestone |
| Mona Mine | 1764 (lease)–1899 (merger) | Copper |
| Morfa Du Mine | 1874–1904 | Copper |
| Mynachdy (Rhosmynach and Carmel Head Copper Mines) | From 1839–1926 | Copper, Chrysotile |
| Parys Mountain | Bronze Age–1904 | Copper, Lead, Silver, Zinc, Gold |
| Penmon Quarry | from 18th century | Limestone |