Parys Mountain Mines

Amlwch, Isle of Anglesey, Wales, UK

A copper and lead mining site which may have been operated since Roman times, but has certainly been worked off and on with Elizabethan times.

The site is the location for a surprising amount of Dr. Who episodes – ever notice how alien worlds often look like a quarry in Wales?

The site is currently looking at the process of reopening and further explorations. 

Mindat lists 52 minerals from the site, including one for which it is the type locality – Anglesite.

 

 

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