parys mountain Anglesey

AIRVŪZ STAFF NOTE : The Welsh island of Anglesey is forever associated with copper mining because of the ore extracted from Parys Mountain, which you'll see in this fascinating drone video by Simon Whittaker. Parys had been a source of the red metal as long as 4,000 years ago but was essentially dormant for several millennia before being "rediscovered" in the late 1700s. With the more advanced extraction and refining techniques that were available by then, Parys became (for a time) the world's largest copper mine.

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Parys Mountain has a long history of mining, with activity having been identified as far back as the Bronze Age (3500 years ago), and with evidence of mining during Roman times. In 1764, Charles Roe and Co. of Macclesfield, applied to Sir Thomas Bayly for a lease on Parys Mountain, following negotiations which had commenced in 1763 when Bayly’s agent met with Mr Roe at Bangor. A lease of Cerrig y Bleiddia was granted in October 1764. Major mining operations began, and the Great Golden Venture Lode was discovered only six feet below the surface on 2 March 1768. Thomas Williams of Llanidan was employed as legal adviser by Edward Hughes, who had inherited the Parys Farm portion of the property, and he later came to develop a vast smelting and manufacturing operation which saw him become the dominant player in the copper trade of Britain.