Parys Mountain mine - starting production?

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simonrl
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14 years ago

Reported in the Daily Post:

"Daily Post" wrote:
A MINING firm has revived hopes of creating 100 jobs at an historic Anglesey mine that was once the copper capital of the world.

Anglesey Mining’s multi-million pound deal to re-start work at Parys Mountain near Amlwch after 100 years collapsed in 2009 when the economic crisis sent metal prices tumbling.

http://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/2011/08/23/hopes-for-100-jobs-parys-mountain-mine-starts-production-55578-29284443/

my orders are to sit here and watch the world go by

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ChrisJC
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14 years ago

Cool, bring it on I say. Jobs, mines, future artefacts. Ace.

Cue the wailing from the NT, CCW etc etc though.

Chris.

derrickman
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14 years ago

This sort of thing goes on all the while. There is an unlimited supply of marginal deposits, worked-out old mines and "possibles and probables" of all descriptions. Price spikes for a while and they are dragged out and dusted off; price falls back, and they go back on the shelf. Financial papers start crying the shares up, then forgets about them again. Local paper picks something up and prints it second or third hand.

The industry is like that. Ignore it until you see a bulldozer stripping the topsoil.

''the stopes soared beyond the range of our caplamps' - David Bick...... How times change .... oh, I don't know, I've still got a lamp like that.

simonrl
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14 years ago

Anglesey could do with some new jobs.

Good luck to them.

my orders are to sit here and watch the world go by

sinker
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14 years ago

"simonrl" wrote:
Anglesey could do with some new jobs.

Good luck to them.

Too right. I worked for Cementation Mining at Parys for 22 months '88-'90 sinking the "new" shaft and the atmosphere was great. The local labour is mad for hard graft, and we would go back there tomorrow given half a chance (even though we are over 20 years older now 😮 ).
However, I echo derrickman's comments 😞 😞 . It smacked of a scam back then and it still does now. 😠
And it breaks my heart to say it. Sorry..... 😞

Yma O Hyd....

suboffender
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14 years ago

I was up taking a look at the old headstock the other day. The main shaft is flooded up to about 20 metres of the top

I'm assuming that they will be commencing mining from the headstock shaft and it's just a case of turning the pumps back on and replacing the wires for the headstock?