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SimonRL Joined: 27/11/2005 Location: North Wales View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message |
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Posted: 04/10/2010 17:45:31 Reply | Quote Could somebody tell me how extensive upper silica mine is please? I've a friend temporarily in S Wales and pondering a weekend there for some u/g. Is there much else underground in the near area? Anybody local to the area?  -- indicative of the type of individual found at the periphery of a fringe activity IP: 95.148.11.200 Edited: 04/10/2010 17:45:55 by SimonRL |
Les W Joined: 13/07/2010 Location: Wells, Somerset View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message |
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Posted: 04/10/2010 19:01:10 Reply | Quote There are some caves near by as well... -- I'm a very busy person IP: 86.172.138.211 |
rhychydwr Joined: 09/06/2007 Location: Cwmparc, Rhondda, South Wales, UK. View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message |
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Posted: 04/10/2010 20:10:25 Reply | Quote And of course, there is a book. No, more than one book, all with surveys. -- Cutting coal in my spare time. IP: 82.71.20.254 |
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ogof Joined: 10/07/2008 Location: Portsmouth View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message |
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Posted: 05/10/2010 06:01:29 Reply | Quote Will only take about half a day at most to have a good look round. IP: 82.24.233.98 |
Vanoord Joined: 28/11/2005 Location: North Wales View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message |
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Posted: 05/10/2010 10:44:45 Reply | Quote simonrl wrote: Anybody local to the area? There is a gentleman you know from down south, who would certainly be interested in Adventure...  -- Filling space until a new signature comes along... IP: 81.130.10.188 |
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SimonRL Joined: 27/11/2005 Location: North Wales View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message |
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Posted: 05/10/2010 11:09:50 Reply | Quote That's a point! If it's a good half day that would be good for a Sunday perhaps before driving home. Any ideas for other mines in the area? -- indicative of the type of individual found at the periphery of a fringe activity IP: 95.148.11.143 |
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Peter Burgess Joined: 01/07/2008 Location: Merstham. Or is it Godstone ...... ? View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message |
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Posted: 05/10/2010 11:13:57 Reply | Quote Have you been to Big Pit? Just off the Heads of the Valleys road and a good couple of hours needed. -- Hé ! Ki kapcsolva le a villanyt ? IP: 81.144.191.248 |
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rhychydwr Joined: 09/06/2007 Location: Cwmparc, Rhondda, South Wales, UK. View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message |
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Posted: 05/10/2010 15:37:10 Reply | Quote rhychydwr1 wrote: And of course, there is a book. No, more than one book, all with surveys. THE CAVES AND MINES OF THE SYCHRHYD GORGE by Keith Jones April 1992 Part 9 in the series Limestones and Caves of South Wales. 32 pp 15 surveys and maps, colour frontis, 2 colour 3 B&W photographs / illustrations. This account presents detailed information on all the known caves and mines of the Sychrhyd Gorge. This enchantingly beautiful area is found at the head of the Vale of Neath, 3 kilometres north east of Glyn Neath near the village of Pont Nedd Fechan. The limestone gorge is 500 metres long and is located on the downstream end of the River Sychryd just before its confluence with the River Mellte, and is guarded by one magnificent portal- the famous Dinas Rock. Reprinted and revised August 2009. SB £10.00 -- Cutting coal in my spare time. IP: 82.71.20.254 |
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Ifor Lamp Joined: 05/09/2009 View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message |
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Posted: 05/10/2010 22:31:11 Reply | Quote If I know you have the right mine gas detectors, there are a few openings in a few coal levels, quite nearby. IP: 80.4.11.117 |
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Ty Gwyn Joined: 30/10/2009 Location: Lampeter View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message |
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Posted: 05/10/2010 23:51:48 Reply | Quote Your not a Fireman ,by any chance Ifor? IP: 86.141.200.44 |
Morlock Joined: 31/07/2008 View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message |
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Posted: 06/10/2010 02:36:33 Reply | Quote You could also do the small mines behind The Angel pub if the recent rain has not filled them. (click image to open full size image in new window) IP: 86.23.113.243 |
derrickman Joined: 18/02/2009 View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message |
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Posted: 06/10/2010 09:30:25 Reply | Quote Big Pit is worth seeing IP: 93.190.187.150 |
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SimonRL Joined: 27/11/2005 Location: North Wales View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message |
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Posted: 06/10/2010 22:06:43 Reply | Quote Ifor Lamp wrote: If I know you have the right mine gas detectors, there are a few openings in a few coal levels, quite nearby. That sounds interesting, but I don't have a gas sensor myself. Would it be 1 per person or a number between the group? Derrickman and Peter - not been to Big Pit but definitely will add this to the list. Thanks. Just need to sort a date out now... -- indicative of the type of individual found at the periphery of a fringe activity IP: 95.148.102.212 |
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rhychydwr Joined: 09/06/2007 Location: Cwmparc, Rhondda, South Wales, UK. View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message |
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Posted: 07/10/2010 07:19:52 Reply | Quote and another book: THE SILICA MINES OF THE LITTLE NEATH VALLEY by Tony Oldham 1993 reprinted 2006 12 pp, 17 colour photos, location map. In the original edition the photos were printed in black and white. Now with 21st century technology they have been reproduced in colour. The mines belonged to the Abernant and Dinas Silica-brick and Cement company. They were abandoned in 1909. Chapters include: History, Geology and A Tour of the mines. SB £5.00 -- Cutting coal in my spare time. IP: 82.71.20.254 |
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ogof Joined: 10/07/2008 Location: Portsmouth View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message |
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Posted: 07/10/2010 18:13:09 Reply | Quote Morlock, what is down the hole in the picture you posted, I have seen it but looking in it just seems to stop, is it worth going in? IP: 82.24.233.98 |
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Morlock Joined: 31/07/2008 View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message |
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Posted: 07/10/2010 19:46:28 Reply | Quote These pics were taken July 2010 during a very dry period, normally most of it is below water. I can vaguely remember swimming about in there in the 1970s but can only guess at the true extent as even in dry weather water meets roof as passages continue down-dip. Sorry about the poor pics, taken whilst out on a family walkabout. (click image to open full size image in new window) (click image to open full size image in new window) IP: 86.23.85.21 Edited: 07/10/2010 20:44:00 by Morlock |
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Ty Gwyn Joined: 30/10/2009 Location: Lampeter View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message |
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Posted: 07/10/2010 20:25:10 Reply | Quote One thing for sure, Thats no Smallmine. The Brick archway,could have been an Airway for an old Colliery,but the underground photo`s look like the Silica mines IP: 86.150.236.245 |
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Morlock Joined: 31/07/2008 View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message |
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Posted: 07/10/2010 20:43:14 Reply | Quote There are a few more about both up, and down the valley. Some seem to have been blocked over the years. Edit: I think this is the one that goes nowhere. Edit2: Tower is just up the road, may be worth some recent pics? [link] (click image to open full size image in new window) IP: 86.27.20.196 Edited: 08/10/2010 16:30:28 by Morlock |
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ogof Joined: 10/07/2008 Location: Portsmouth View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message |
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Posted: 08/10/2010 16:06:52 Reply | Quote Thanks for that Morlock, should have had a look in there over the summer when it was dryer. IP: 82.24.233.98 |
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Morlock Joined: 31/07/2008 View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message |
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Posted: 08/10/2010 16:22:47 Reply | Quote ogof wrote: Thanks for that Morlock, should have had a look in there over the summer when it was dryer. It may be worth a walk up the various valleys after the leaves have fallen to see what's still open, (plus a hard winter may lower the levels a bit). IP: 86.27.20.196 |
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