Connemara Mining to extend drilling programme at zinc sites

IRISH zinc and lead exploration company, Connemara Mining — which recorded a widening in its full-year losses in 2007 from €3,137 to €624,398 — yesterday announced its intention to extend its drilling programmes at its main two zinc sites in Limerick and Meath.

Since listing on London’s Alternative Investment Market (AIM) last year, Connemara has produced two significant zinc discoveries in Limerick and at Lough Sheelin on the Meath/Cavan border.

Earlier this week, the John Teeling-chaired company announced the discovery of a second major concentration of high-grade zinc mineralisation at the Stonepark-based section of its Monaster mine in Co Limerick.