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There where many shafts and adits on the mountain associated with the mines. Some of these shafts were capped in the 1980s by Anglesey Mining Co Plc as a safety precaution. The positions of the capped shafts were marked with concrete pillars and some descriptions given A numbering system was also devised which is used below. The following is a list of named shafts with information on there location and any other details known. 
Some information has been obtained from a Treweek survey of 1820 ,the Francis map of 1832 or the mine abandonment plans in 1856. More information has been gleaned from a books written by Owen Jones in 1847 ( All in MM and worked by whimsey of two horse power)  and  Owen Griffiths in 1897 or from OS maps of the period. In 1965 it was reported by Cockshutt that there were 84 named shafts and another 20 unnamed on the mountain which gave raise to 13 ¹/₄ miles of underground workings. A total of 163 shafts are named or described below.

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