I was up at Ardintoul today (to look at the WWII RN site).

The NGR in the HER is for the house where the person who reported this mine lived.

I am not 100% sure that the name on the map 'Cnoc Cuil na Mine' uses 'Mine' with its English meaning and it is not part of a Gaelic place name.

The HER definitely says there was a mine in the area and

'Apparently winding and other gear survives at the site.'

HER MHG30910

http://her.highland.gov.uk/SingleResult.aspx?uid=MHG30910 

There was no one around who I could ask, it was over four miles walk from the car so I could not spend too long looking around!

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I have found an article on the mine.

http://www.swrfc.org.uk/publications/talc.pdf 

Also another entry on the HER

http://her.highland.gov.uk/SingleResult.aspx?uid=MHG29629 

Curses, I saw the winch at the side of the track near the shore.

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In Gaelic the word for mine is often the same as English, sometimes spelt 'meinne' though, in Irish they have 'mianach'

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from Mines of Scotland: A Bibliography


Ardintoul Mine see Cnoc Cuil na Mine

Cnoc Cuil na Mine NGR NG 828 239 Explorer Ardintoul, Ross-shire
A talc mine on the southern shore of Loch Aish. From 1931 to 1933 600 to 100 tons of talc were mined here.
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CC 31
http://her.highland.gov.uk/SingleResult.aspx?uid=MHG29629 
accessed 01.05.11 “At the site of the old workings little can be seen at the present day. On the east of the burn there appears to be an adit running into the hill in an easterly direction. It is impossible to be sure if it once went further but is now blocked by a roof fall. It seems probable that this was an adit with a lateral drive or drives in the talc-rock from its end. This inference is made because it does not look as if outcrop workings could have carried on to an extent sufficient to give several cargoes of talc-rock.
The mine was worked, it is believed, between 1931 and 1933, by Mr Reston Mather, a Mining Engineer, of the Northern Mining Co. Ltd., Room 264, 11 Bothwell Street, Glasgow, which operated a grinding plant at Seabegs Mill, Bonnybridge. Seabegs Mill produced talc, French chalk and soapstone. According to information obtained from Alexander Matheson, Druideig, Glenshiel (ferryman at Totaig), the mine was operated by only one skilled miner with the assistance of unskilled labour. The talc-rock was conveyed from the mine to the shore, on the west side of Ardintoul Bay immediately south of Ardintoul, by a simple aerial ropeway operated by a wheel and a small petrol engine. The talc was taken away by coal boats returning south after delivering coal in the Loch Alsh area. The boats were beached and the talc was loaded by means of derricks. The last cargo of talc was lost when the boat conveying it south was wrecked. The remains of the wheel and the aerial ropeway and of a small petrol engine are still at the site of the workings. A steel rope is also still in place running downhill from the workings for a consideralbe distance. It is locally overgrown by grass where it has been lying on the ground on the gentle lower slopes of the hillside. No ropeway supports remain.
Report on investigation of the occurances of talcose rocks in the Glenelg district - by Dr A G MacGregor, June 10-15, 1949”
http://her.highland.gov.uk/hbsmrgatewayhighland/DataFiles/LibraryLinkFiles/34071.pdf 
accessed 01.05.11 – 15 photos
http://her.highland.gov.uk/SingleResult.aspx?uid=MHG30910 
accessed 01.05.11 Mine Post Medieval - 1560 AD to 1900 AD)

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