View NNE of the Clive engine house built in the 1860s, part of the Talargoch Victorian silver/lead-mining complex below Graig Fawr, North Wales, UK.

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View NNE of the Clive engine house, part of the Talargoch Victorian silver/lead-mining complex below Graig Fawr, North Wales, UK. Built in the 1860s to house a massive steam engine to pump water from the S end of the mine workings. At least 10 shafts were sunk in the area around Meliden, all connected underground by horizontal levels following ore veins through the Graig Fawr limestone. Closed in 1884 when pumping costs for the low-lying mines in porous limestone close to the sea became too high to compete with imported ore.

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Size: 3780px × 4971px
Location: Clive Engine House, Dyserth, Prestatyn, Denbighshire, Wales, UK
Photo credit: © Mick Sharp / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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