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Dolaucothi Gold Mines

Dolaucothi Gold Mines, United Kingdom. Heritage site, underground, mining gold.

Why Dolaucothi Gold Mines is famous

Romans began the first extensive mining in AD 70 to 80. Mining stopped in October 1938. Mitchell's shaft was deepened to 480 ft (146 m), the deepest on site, and the late-1930s workforce of about 150 to 200 produced several hundred tonnes of ore a week at peak.1,2

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Dolaucothi Gold Mines today

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An example ofBoddingtonRomans began Dolaucothi in AD 70. Newmont's Boddington made 565 koz of gold in 2025.1ExamplesLas MedulasRome mined gold at Las Medulas from about 27 BC and at Dolaucothi from AD 70.3

Sources

  1. Dolaucothi Gold Mines National Trust
  2. Wikidata entity Q1235312
  3. Las Medulas article (2017) Mercian Geologist

From the Prospector Trails mining history dataset: each fact links to the source it was checked against. Figures are as the source gives them, in the money of their day. Not investment advice.

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