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Parys Mountain Copper Mines

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Parys Mountain Copper Mines

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Location: Amlwch, Anglesey, North Wales, Wales, United Kingdom

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1. Parys Mountain loop from Penysarn — Anglesey

6.98km

01:52

80m

Easy hike. Great for any fitness level. Easily-accessible paths. Suitable for all skill levels.

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2. Parys Mountain Windmill Ruin – Parys Mountain Copper Mines loop from Pentrefelin

5.51km

01:29

70m

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3. Parys Mountain Windmill Ruin – Parys Mountain Copper Mines loop from Pentrefelin

3.93km

01:04

50m

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Zoe Evans

April 1, 2022

❤️COPPER KINGDOM❤️

This place is absolutely insane.... If you haven't been here get Ur self there asap... Plenty of history and 6million tonnes of copper still sits within the mountain today!! I got very emotional here has my dad was a miner and later become a copper collector so discovering this absolutely blew my mind. SPECIAL PLACE IN MY HEART THIS ONE

OliverZ

July 18, 2019

An old copper mine which one can wander through in different ways. Great colors, views and a few old buildings. There is a lot to discover here.

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December 9, 2022

Copper has been mined here since the bronze age with recent archaeological digs finding evidence of 4000-year-old mining activity. It's a huge open cast copper mine created entirely by people with spades, pickaxes and dynamite. It's rise in the late 1780's to early 1800's dominated the worlds copper industry, contributing to the demise of the Cornish copper mines.

Today it's a scared landscape with only a few plants coping with the copper polluted soil and very few animals. It does create an amazing landscape though, almost alien.

Interestingly there is still about 6.5 million tonnes of copper underground which may lead to the mining re-starting in the future.

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Elevation 130 m

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Location: Amlwch, Anglesey, North Wales, Wales, United Kingdom

Parys Mountain Copper Mines

1. Parys Mountain loop from Penysarn — Anglesey

2. Parys Mountain Windmill Ruin – Parys Mountain Copper Mines loop from Pentrefelin

3. Parys Mountain Windmill Ruin – Parys Mountain Copper Mines loop from Pentrefelin

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