90 REPORT—1862. 
remarkable galena and blende lodes. Some specimens from this mine in the 
author's case at the International Exhibition contain from 300 to 400 ounces of 
old to the ton. The lode-stuff will probably yield as much on the average as the 
aint David’s Lode at Clogau. Seventeen ounces of gold were recently obtained 
from 5 cwt. of blende ore. A very rich specimen was exhibited. 
Tue CLocat SECTION. 
The now celebrated Clogau Gold Mine is situate about a mile and a half north 
of the “Halfway House,” on the turnpike-road from Dolgelley to Barmouth, the 
most charming road in Europe. 
This property contains a large number of lodes, mineralized throughout more or 
less with galena, blende, and copper-pyrites, and with the occasional occurrence of 
bismuth and tellurium. 
The Saint David's Gold Lode is the most noted, in consequence of its having 
outstripped all other gold-mines of the kingdom by doing the last thing that was 
predicted of it, namely “pay a profit.” Of this, however, there can be but little 
doubt, as, by official returns up to the 30th September last, 7892 ounces of gold 
have been sold to the Bank of England, the produce of only 1091 tons of quartz !— 
11732 ounces of which were produced from 10723 tons of mineral in which the gold 
was not visible, and the astonishing quantity of 67183 ounces from only 18 tons 
17 ewt. 3 qrs. 14 lbs. of quartz, realizing nearly £30,000, at a cost of some £3000, 
or less! No quartz-mining on record has given such a result. This remarkable 
lode produces gold in quartz, in the 15-fathom level, at the rate of an ounce to the 
ton. 
The author stated that, in his paper of last year, he had placed on record the pro- 
duct of the first hundredweight of Welsh gold. He had now to record more than 
four hundredweight ; and he believed the mine, under proper management, to be 
capable of producing far greater results than those just mentioned. 
A bar of gold weighing 37 ounces, part of the produce alluded to, was exhibited, 
and a chain of pure gold, manufactured by Messrs. Watherston and Brogden. 
The first three quarters of the year 1862 show the following result :— 
tons. ewt. qrs. lbs. ozs. dwts. grs. 
789 18 0 0 of poor ore have yielded 739 19 Oof gold. 
13 16 1 12 ofrich ore haye yielded 4566 2 12 of gold. 
803 14 1 12 crushed. Total. . 5296 1 12 
—which is equal to 18 dwts. 18 grs. per ton from the former, and 330 ozs. 9 dwts. 
from the latter, or an average of 6 ozs. 12 dwts. per ton from both. The gold 
brought £3 17s. per ounce, after deducting expenses for realizing same; nett, 
£20,390 15s. 5d. 
The Garthgell Mine is situate between the Cambrian and Clogau Mines, and 
receives the lodes of both mines. The Cambrian Gold Lode runs into the sett a 
few yards from the spot where visible gold is now being raised, and the Saint 
David’s Gold Lode has been traced on the Clogau side up to the boundary of the 
Garthgell Sett. The same results as the Cambrian are expected daily. The ores 
by assay give from 2 to 10 dwts. of gold to the ton at surface, and, to appearance, 
increase in depth. A shallow adit will cut the Cambrian Gold Lode at about 
the same level as that company’s present working. 
Tynycornel Farm, on the west of Clogau, has the Saint David’s Lode running 
through it. This is at present unexplored; but as the lode on each side of the 
farm is auriferous, it is more than probable that gold will be found here also. 
Hendreforran Mine lies in the middle of the Hir valley, between the Vigra 
and Clogau Mountains. Gold has been produced Kare by assay. The indications 
here are good. 
_ West Clogau Mine, at Liachfraith, has yielded from a ton of quartz 17 dwts. of 
fine gold—about half, probably, of what it contained, when the means used to ex- 
tract it are considered. The author found gold visible in the quartz here in 1856, 
at nearly 150 fathoms lower than the upper level at Saint David’s Gold Lode. 
