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euros Joined: 25/08/2009 Location: CELLAN View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	GOLD IN THEM THERE HILLS! Posted: 18/04/2012 19:25:59 Reply \| Quote On the bbc website tonight. Plans to open a new gold mine. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-north-west-wales-17756325 IP: 86.155.141.40
ChrisJC Joined: 13/10/2007 Location: Northants View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	GOLD IN THEM THERE HILLS! Posted: 18/04/2012 19:28:00 Reply \| Quote Pretty unlikely I would say with all the environmental issues associated with gold mining....... Chris. IP: 86.171.48.20
Ty Gwyn Joined: 30/10/2009 Location: Lampeter View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	GOLD IN THEM THERE HILLS! Posted: 18/04/2012 20:16:10 Reply \| Quote Colonish in Scotland are. IP: 86.165.176.215
SimonRL Joined: 27/11/2005 Location: North Wales View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	GOLD IN THEM THERE HILLS! Posted: 18/04/2012 20:41:53 Reply \| Quote euros wrote: On the bbc website tonight. Plans to open a new gold mine. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-north-west-wales-17756325 Thanks, watching it now -- Half the lies you tell ain't true IP: 86.158.87.149
Graigfawr Joined: 04/11/2009 View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	GOLD IN THEM THERE HILLS! Posted: 18/04/2012 20:59:53 Reply \| Quote "it was hoped the area holds 130,000 to 500,000 ounces of gold" For comparison, the recorded pre-WW2 production of Gold from the Dolgellau area totalled 128,161 ozs (T.M.Thomas The Mineral Wealth of Wales and its Exploitation, Edinburgh, 1961, p.211). Anyone know what the estimated total production - i.e. with the addition of unrecorded C19 production plus 1980s/90s production - amounts to? IP: 2.100.173.181
crickleymal Joined: 12/03/2009 Location: Gloucester View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	GOLD IN THEM THERE HILLS! Posted: 19/04/2012 08:56:46 Reply \| Quote Graigfawr wrote: Anyone know what the estimated total production - i.e. with the addition of unrecorded C19 production plus 1980s/90s production - amounts to? Surprisingly small I think. I saw an archaeological program last year which looked at the Roman gold mines in Wales. IIRC the total production of gold throughout history can be measured in single figure tons or something like that. IP: 82.33.242.34
BertyBasset Joined: 13/12/2007 Location: Caernarfon, North Wales View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	GOLD IN THEM THERE HILLS! Posted: 19/04/2012 10:26:58 Reply \| Quote Which mine is it ? The article mentions Clogau and Gwynfynydd but seems to refer to them as 'other' mines. IP: 194.28.139.160
JohnnearCfon Joined: 22/12/2005 Location: Sir Caernarfon View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	GOLD IN THEM THERE HILLS! Posted: 19/04/2012 11:54:34 Reply \| Quote GMoW have, at present, got an exploratory license from the Crown Estates for the entire Dolgellau Gold Belt (some 120 sq Kms). This includes both Clogau and Gwynfynydd and many other former gold mines within that area. -- Cadwch Cymru'n daclus-Taflwch eich ysbwriel yn LLoeger . Ed McDermott - Either take a s hit or get off of the pot!! IP: 78.150.212.139
Manicminer Joined: 29/04/2007 Location: North Wales View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	GOLD IN THEM THERE HILLS! Posted: 19/04/2012 19:06:32 Reply \| Quote http://www.demotix.com/news/1060291/famous-gold-mine-legal-dispute-dolgellau -- Gold is where you find it IP: 95.148.0.253
ianh Joined: 11/01/2009 View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	GOLD IN THEM THERE HILLS! Posted: 23/04/2012 12:15:26 Reply \| Quote Be aware that currently there is a Share Scam active in the apparent purchase of shares in Clogau Gold.... Relative was stopped by Bank suspicious as to why he wanted to transfer funds to Dubai.... for further information contact me via PM..... Ian H Brecon IP: 176.227.133.105
JohnnearCfon Joined: 22/12/2005 Location: Sir Caernarfon View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	GOLD IN THEM THERE HILLS! Posted: 23/04/2012 12:28:50 Reply \| Quote This makes interesting reading too! http://eyreinternational.wordpress.com/2011/05/22/pandoras-box-opens-up-more-grime-part-4-repeat-revised/ IP: 78.147.34.119

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