Pentremawr Colliery
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Pentremawr Colliery
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Pentremawr Colliery was a coal mine, located in the Gwendraeth valley in Carmarthenshire, South Wales. Due to the angle and depth of the anthracite in this part of Wales, Pentremawr was a slant mine, and hence access and extraction of the coal did not need a shaft. However, the commercial extraction of coal is limited by geological faults in the area. The first two attempts were aborted in 1870, after a huge fault was encountered. But eventually three slants known as Capel Ifan No's 1, 2 and 3 w
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Defunct coal mine in South Wales
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentremawr_Colliery
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2023-03-11T21:55:15Z
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