Eaglebrook Mine

The site provided many fine micromineral specimens over the years, but it is now a SSSI and no further collecting is allowed.

The mine was opened originally in around 1700, and eventually finally closed in around 1874-1875.

It produced lead and copper ores. Mindat lists 56 minerals from the site, including fine langite, laurionite, and linarite. Many of the minerals are secondary copper, lead, or zinc minerals.

Other names for this site include:

• Eaglebrook Mine
• Nant-y-Cagal mine
• Nantycagl mine
• Dolrhuddlan
• Dolrhyddlan Mine

There are some excellent writeups of the site, especially that of the Scottish Geology trust.

Further reading

• https://www.mindat.org/loc-4293.html
• https://geoguide.scottishgeologytrust.org/p/gcr/gcr36/gcr36_eaglebrook
• https://buddlepit.co.uk/mine-explorer/Database/MineDetails.html?id=udL9phe2XdAgS_0FCbDM3Q==
• https://treasuremaps.weebly.com/tracks/more-mines-around-nant-y-moch

If you are interested in other local specimens, we may have stock from the following locales:

• Bwlch Glas Mine, Tal-y-bont, Ceulanymaesmawr, Ceredigion, Wales
• Cwmystwyth Mine, Cwmystwyth, Upper Llanfihangell-y-Creuddyn, Ceredigion, Wales
• Eaglebrook Mine, Tal-y-bont, Ceulanymaesmawr, Ceredigion, Wales
• Frongoch Mine, Pontrhydygroes, Upper Llanfihangell-y-Creuddyn, Ceredigion, Wales
• Gwaith Yr Afon mine, Goginan, Trefeirig, Ceredigion, Wales
• Hafan Mine, Tal-y-bont, Ceulanymaesmawr, Ceredigion, Wales
• Penrhiw Mine, Ystumtuen, Cwmrheidol, Ceredigion, Wales
• Ystrad Einion Mine, Furnace, Ysgubor-y-coed, Ceredigion, Wales

Alternately, try browsing by county: • Bridgend • Caerphilly • Cardiff • Ceredigion • Clwyd • Conwy • Gwynedd • Isle of Anglesey • Powys • Rhondda Cynon Taf • Vale of Glamorgan •

For the rest of our stock from the entire UK, see below.

United Kingdom