GovHK locates Silvermine Cave on the hill above Silvermine Bay in Mui Wo and records mining activity there in the mid to late nineteenth century. The account gives a concise but concrete industrial history: the site was worked for silver and later abandoned because the ore had low silver content. It does not supply output figures, a workforce history or a detailed map of the workings, so those details should not be invented. Even within that narrow record, the cave connects Mui Wo’s coastal geography with an extractive past.
From the journal
Silvermine Cave: Mining beside Mui Wo’s Waterfalls
Silver mining took place at Silvermine Cave in the mid to late nineteenth century before stopping because of low silver content. The cave and waterfalls now frame a different view of Mui Wo’s landscape.
In this district · Islands ↗A mine above Silvermine Bay
A changed landscape around the cave
Below the cave, upper and lower Silvermine Waterfalls descend toward a pavilion in Waterfall Garden. The hillside brings a former mine and a public landscape together, with the waterfalls marking a different chapter in Mui Wo’s story.
A trace of Mui Wo’s industrial past
Silvermine Cave preserves a small but striking trace of nineteenth-century extraction on a hillside now visited for its waterfalls. The mine’s short working life links Mui Wo’s coastal landscape to an industrial past.