The Bailey Level Gold Mine
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The Bailey Level Gold Mine
Image: © Des Blenkinsopp Taken: 12 Feb 2015
The Forest of Dean's one and only gold mine wasn't a success. Between 1906 and 1908 shares to the value of nearly 8 million pounds in today's money were issued, but the extraction of the small amount of gold actually there was not commercially viable. A certain amount of iron ore was later produced, but that probably wasn't much comfort to the original investors. The site is now owned by the Lee Bailey Light Railway Society who are aiming to construct a narrow gauge railway along an old trackbed. Gold mine info on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bailey_Level_Gold_Mine
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Image Location
Latitude
51.873381
Longitude
-2.517631