Bwlch Glas Mine

Bwlch Glas translates to ‘blue gap’. It was worked between 1889 and 1923, peaking in around 1910.

Little remains on the surface of this mine, only some concrete blocks and building remnants.

 

 

If you are interested in other classic British locales we may have stock from the following locales.

British locales

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I have only included the pieces attributed to specific places; not simply 'Weardale' for example.
Click here for a full list of British minerals.  
 
Ceredigion

• Bwlch Glas Mine, Ceredigion, Wales

Cornwall

• West Wheal Jewel, St Day, Cornwall

County Durham

• Newlandside Quarry, Stanhope, County Durham

Cumbria

• Carrock Mine, Caldbeck Falls, Cumbria
• Dry Gill Mine, Caldbeck Falls, Cumbria
• Florence-Ullcoats Mine, Egremont, Cumbria
• Goose Green Mine, Frizington, Cumbria
• Kinniside Mine, Copeland, Cumbria
• Mowbray mine, Frizington, Cumbria
• Old Brandlehow Mine, Keswich, Cumbria
• Roughton Gill Mine, Caldbeck Falls, Cumbria
• Smallcleugh mine, Nenthead, Alston, Cumbria.

Conwy, Wales

• Great Orme, Llandudno, Wales

Gloucestershire

• Chipping Sodbury Quarry - formerly Hampstead Farm Quarry, Sodbury, Gloucestershire
• Hampstead Farm Quarry, now Chipping Sodbury Quarry, Sodbury, Gloucestershire

Lanarkshire

• Dunside, Lesmahagow, Scotland

Highlands

• Ledmore Quarry, Sutherland, Highlands, Scotland

Leicestershire

• Breedon Hill Quarry, Breedon on the Hill, Leicestershire
• Croft Quarry, Croft, Leicestershire

Norfolk

• Old Hunstanton, Hunstanton, Norfolk

North Ayrshire

• Loanhead Quarry, Beith, North Ayrshire, Scotland

North Yorkshire

• Worton Hall Mine, Askrigg, Wensleydale, North Yorkshire

Shropshire

• Burgam Mine, Stiperstones, Shropshire

Vale of Glamorgan

• Lavernock beach, Lavernock, Vale of Glamorgan, UK

West Midlands

• Wrens Nest nature reserve, Dudley, West Midlands

 

For the rest of our British stock, see below.

Great Britain

Fossils from Great Britain - Minerals from Great Britain

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