Firm reveals gold reserves at border

A potential 15m to 20m ounces of gold reserves exist along the border corridor linking counties Longford and Down, according to mineral exploration firm Conroy Gold and Natural Resources.

The Dublin-based firm — which hopes to develop Ireland’s first commercial gold mine at Clontibret in Co Monaghan — made the claim yesterday, based on its own studies of the 50km Longford Massif gold trend, which the firm holds under licence.

The findings add to its previously announced discovery of an extensive zinc-in-soil anomaly in Monaghan and Armagh.