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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 47. Chapters: Coal mines in Wales, Copper mines in Wales, Gold mines in Wales, Lead mines in Wales, Slate mines in Wales, Surface mines in Wales, Underground mines in Wales, Dolaucothi Gold Mines, Great Orme, Gresford Colliery, Dinorwic Quarry, Mardy Colliery, List of collieries in the Rhondda Valleys, Mostyn Colliery, Tower Colliery, Parys Mountain, South Wales Coalfield, Milwr tunnel, Bedwas Navigation Colliery, Ffos-y-fran, Cwt y Bugail Quarry, Cefn Coed Colliery Museum, Augustin Gottfried Ludwig Lentin, Aberllefenni Slate Quarry, Six Bells Colliery, Point of Ayr, Bryn Eglwys, Maenofferen Quarry, Lady Windsor Colliery, Penallta Colliery, Croesor Quarry, Cwmystwyth Mines, Big Pit National Coal Museum, Albion Colliery, Llechwedd quarry, Nantgarw Colliery, Braichgoch Slate Mine, Croesor Tramway, Blaen y Cwm Quarry, Oakeley Quarry, Pentremawr Colliery, Abercynon Colliery, Cynheidre Colliery, Ratgoed Quarry, Penrhyn Quarry, Sygun Copper Mine, Park Slip colliery, Oakdale Colliery, Cambrian Colliery, Llechwedd Slate Caverns, Universal Colliery, Abercorris quarry, Pot Hole Quarry, Clogau Gold Mine, Nine Mile Point Colliery, Rhosydd Quarry, Gwynfynydd, Carreg yr Imbill, Aberpergwm, Llancaiach Colliery, Wyllie Colliery. Excerpt: The Dolaucothi Gold Mines (grid reference ), also known as the Ogofau Gold Mine, are Roman surface and deep mines located in the valley of the River Cothi, near Pumsaint, Carmarthenshire, Wales. The gold mines are located within the Dolaucothi Estate which is now owned by the National Trust. They are the only mines for Welsh gold outside those of the Dolgellau gold-belt, and are a Scheduled Ancient Monument. They are also the only known Roman gold mines in Britain, although it does not exclude the likelihood that they exploited other known sources in Devon, North Wales and Scotland for example. The site is...
