Upper adit for the Blairlogie copper mine

Image: © Doug Lee Taken: 19 Jun 2016

This is the adit for gaining access to the Blairlogie copper mine. It marks the highest point in the mine. The adit at the entrance to the mine is southeast of this point and further down the hill but has collapsed so that it is no longer possible to gain access to the mine at that point. The seam of copper ore was followed from that lower adit up to the one shown here. It is necessary to crawl in order to enter the mine but it opens up to standing height about four metres in. Some views of the immediate interior of the mine are shown in Image and Image The hillside around the adit is now very overgrown and locating the adit is difficult even when having visited the mine before. A view from the adit showing the vegetative cover can be seen in Image The mine was used in the early 18th century although there may have been some earlier activity. There are also several adits for mining trials elsewhere on Dumyat but this was the only active mine.

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