Mines in Ceredigion

Ceredigion sits at the heart of the Central Wales orefield, worked for lead, zinc and silver from at least Roman times and reaching a Victorian peak when mines like Cwmystwyth and Frongoch made the county one of the richest lead-producing areas in Britain. Many of its mines lie in remote, high valleys, and their scattered ruins are often the most visible legacy of a Welsh mining tradition usually overshadowed by the coalfields further south. Cwmystwyth's earliest workings, on Copa Hill, date back to the Bronze Age, making it one of the longest continuously exploited metal deposits anywhere in Wales.

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