Looking across the opencast area towards Great Orme’s summit.
Image credit: A. Brookes (25.4.2018)
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There appears to have been no attempt at restoration of the landscape. Some sympathetic backfilling of the excavated areas would have been straightforward back in the Bronze Age. It's not like they were busy doing other stuff. Instead, the Welsh left this place looking like a 19th Century slate quarry. With ancient traditions like this, it is no wonder we have the modern landscapes around Llanberis and Trefor which we all know and love.
I think you've missed the point. This area was completed covered over and unknown until the late 1980s, no-one knew the prehistoric mine was here. It's been deliberately uncovered to show the workings. They are slowly uncovering and assessing more of it.
It seems an obvious question tsc, did you go in? It is an amazing place, they let you go in without a guide (so long as you're wearing a hard hat) which was a bit daunting.
Yes we did, it's amazing! Only posted one photo from within, Gladman's are a hundred times better than anything I took.