English Gold Mines.
■• Cor tinned search has been made for ! j>old at Llanellryd, near Barmouth, ; North Wales, where a few days ago I several pieces of the precious metal ! wore lound near ac old copper I mint by a lad who was diggi.- g for j copper. Further nuggets have been ! found, and it is thought not improbj able that a gold mine may bo discovered. A few miles distant in the same valley is tbe Clogan Gold Mine, where in 1860 cold was found to the value of '£36,000, «nd for a few years the mine was worked so successfully as to yield a profit of £20,000. A mine was also worked with much success for some years at Bala by a company under the chairmanship of Mr John Bright, M.P., but was aband- ! oned. — Home Paper. j _a__B___B-K-H-K_B-_a_---a_-aa-i-i-K__BB_-__H i
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Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 106, 19 May 1883, Page 3
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141English Gold Mines. Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 106, 19 May 1883, Page 3
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