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MINING for gold has been carried on in various parts of Wales during the past two thousand years, but has experienced many vicissitudes and has frequently lapsed for long periods at individual workings. An attempt was made some three years ago to bring again into commercial production the Roman Deep mine at Pumpsaint, Carmarthenshire, but circumstances were adverse to the venture. According to Engineering of September 20, the plant has now passed into the hands of Messrs. George Cohen, Sons and Company, Ltd., for disposal. Local tradition says that the name ‘Pumpsaint”, which means five saints, is linked with a stone, having in one surface five small depressions, supposed to have been caused by the heads of five saints who used it as a pillow. Messrs. Cohen suggest that the hollows were caused by primitive ore-crushing stamps, andthat the stone was part of the very early plant used at the mine.
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Gold Mining in Wales. Nature 146, 489 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/146489c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/146489c0