📈   Going for gold: coin marks hope of bringing Welsh mine back from the dead

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Clogau St David’s, once Britain’s richest goldmine, was considered exhausted. But miners are working there againThe workspace would not suit everyone. A soggy, gritty, cramped cavern 50 metres beneath a Welsh hillside accessible only by a series of ladders that drop through craggy holes into the darkness.But a smile spread over Dai Walker’s grime-caked face as the miner described the challenge of hunting for gold in the hills of north-west Wales and the joy when he and his colleagues find a few specks. ...

The Guardian     Mar 26, 2025