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Graigfawr
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The 1kg ingot presented to H.M.the Queen by Sir Mark Wienberg in 1983 is on display at the National Waterfront Museum at Swansea.

JohnnearCfon
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"Mabmeirion" wrote:
His final comment was that as far as he knew, Clogau had never produced any Welsh gold for the wedding rings.

Ah, so even less Clogau Gold than they put in their jewelry then!! :lol:

John Mason
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George wasn't far off the mark there at all. Gwynfynydd, Beddycoeddwr and more recently (late 1990s) Prince Edward mines were the key sources for royal gold. Personally now, if my life was drawing to an end, given the state of things, I'd auction what I have here and give the proceeds from the highest bidder to the good folk running the food-banks.

BertyBasset
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Was Prince Edward still going in the 90s ? I had a visit in the mid 90s and it looked well abandoned.

John Mason
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There was some exploration work done in the late 90s, mostly underground mapping/surveying and a bit of sampling.

Manicminer
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#46

We knew the wedding between Prince Edward and Sophie was going to happen so an effort was made to recover enough gold from Prince Edward gold mine to make the rings.
The gold there is very fine (small) and not a lot of it so it took several weeks between our normal day jobs to collect enough for the wedding rings.

Gold is where you find it