Mine Visit29 Sep 2022 14:43
Am back now from my trip Wales. I would just like to say the southern Snowdonia National Park area is amazingly beautiful. Thanks for the couple of messages on here before I left. I visited the Alba office in Dolgellau, it was closed at the time, it had a message in the window, saying no mine tours or visits were available right now, and then gave some information of other places where you could visit some goldmine sites. I visited the Gold mine site itself - Clogau St Davids Liechfraith Audit- accessing from the village of Bontddu. No activity on site when I visited. I was hugely impressed by the mine site. It certainly was not a blot on the landscape being situated in such a picturesque setting. The site was very clean and tidy and looked well maintained. The entrance to the main shaft was protected by a red solid metal door, the area around the door looked like it had been very recently reinforced by concrete making it a totally secure mine entrance. Security cameras were visible, and the whole area was fenced off, with a padlocked gate and was secure. On the site was a large storage building/ unit where they store everything out of sight. The only things visible on the site were a number of massive plastic, water containers, encased in a steel frames. Maybe ten of those, stacked up, also some tubing, maybe of ventilation type . Whilst you could climb over the perimeter fence and get onto the site, the site and our gold is safe. No one will be getting into the shaft its self, and everything else of value is locked away, out of sight. There was another mine entrance just off the main site, accessed by going down a steep flight of steps, this had a locked iron railing door preventing access. I came away from my visit to our gold mine in very positive mood, Alba are certainly respecting the environment and everything looks in order for when we get the green light to go. I can also sleep easy knowing no one will be poking around in our gold mine.
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