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Rhiwbach New Vein quarry adit 12 years 9 months ago #1470

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Directions
The driest and easiest route is to park at the Welsh Slate Car park at the head of Cwm Teigl and walk along the Rhiwbach tramway to the Quarry. Then head over the tips, past the Craig Howell workings, skirting the woods until you reach the New Vein Quarry. Walk over the lake on the causeway (an old tip run). Climb up the steep slope behind the blocked adit, walk through the trees for 50 yards...and you will come to a crater, probably made about 70 years ago. Climb down towards the south western lip and the adit is exposed at the bottom of a collapsed chamber. (Level1 chamber 1)

Access
Ungated, belongs to Forestry Commission


Suggested Equipment
waders...it's full of ochre.


Length
Unknown


Flood Risk
We visited after a spell of heavy rainfall, water levels did not appear to be subject to fluctuation.


Mine Attributes
Slate

Description
An interesting way (the only way!) in to the New Vein workings. This is a collapse which occured after this part of the mine was abandoned. It seems stable, there were no new rockfalls since our first visit 4 months previously. You go into the exposed chamber and see the adit from the pit going inbye, right to left. Go left of the pillar and down to where you will pick up the adit again. This leads into a very ochreous chamber with a shaft coming in from above. It looked as if there was possibly a further tunnel leading on, but the gloop gets deeper and deeper.



Unexplored Passages
Probably

Digs
none known

Links
robinsonmaps.blogspot.com/2011/06/lost-c...ers-of-rhiwbach.html


inside_the_hole.jpg



causeway.jpg

The flooded pit of the New Vein Quarry

inside_the_adit.jpg

At the entrance to chamber 2
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adit_1.jpg

The blocked adit to level 1 inside the New Vein Quarry


cave_in_entrance.jpg

Inside the collapsed chamber


outbye_adit.jpg

The outbye adit


in_the_hole.jpg

The entrance
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chamber_collapse_at_rhiwbach.jpg

The entrance in February this year!!


frost_and_icicles_over_the_new_vein_quarry_edge.jpg

Frosties over the New Vein Pit
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