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| Amlwch is a town on the north coast of Anglesey in North Wales. It grew in the eighteenth century around what was then the world's biggest copper mine at the nearby Parys Mountain. By the late eighteenth century, Amlwch has a population of around 10,000 and was the second largest town in Wales after Merthyr Tydfil. When competition arose overseas, the population shrank. Today the town's main industry is fishing. |  |
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| Attractions
in Amlwch include its restored port, its watch house containing a
small museum, and the reinforced concrete church Our Lady of the
Sea.
For the Boat Angler, the sea off Amlwch offers wide and varied fishing grounds. The many wrecks lying in the Irish sea are easily accessible to the Amlwch Port fleet of charter boats. |
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Amlwch and Parys Mountain |
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Initially ore from Parys Mountain was worked on the surface from shallow shafts, next by open-pit mining and finally underground from adits or from shafts. The ore was broken into small lumps by hand, the best ore being transported by ship to Lancashire or South Wales for smelting. Copper was concentrated and extracted from the remainder using kilns and furnaces on site. | ||
Rowland Pugh, a local man, was the first to strike copper on 2 March 1768 and was rewarded with a bottle of whisky and a rent-free house for his lifetime. There is a waymarked trail around the mountain, but those wishing to go underground need to join the Parys Mountain Underground Group. The Mountain has a number of examples of copper-tolerant plants and bacteria. A scene in Mortal Kombat: Annihilation was filmed at Parys Mountain. |
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Amlwch
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