A golden example of trickle-down economics | Brief letters

Welsh mining | Bridget Christie | Ancient Greek | Nuuk ambitions | April foolYour report on the revival of gold mining in north Wales (Going for gold: coin marks hope of bringing Welsh mine back from the dead, 26 March)( made me recall a summer I spent camping in the area in the 1970s, when, in the village pub, I enjoyed the stories of locals who had worked in the mine. One theme was how the proceeds of illicitly siphoned gold had funded new houses in the locality. If true, this i