Connemara Mining awarded two Cork licences

Dublin-based prospecting firm Connemara Mining has been awarded two new prospecting licences in Cork, which the company is counting as priority acreage.

The prospects are understood to be prospective for base metals and are on ground close to Ladyswell Barite Mine, which was operational until the 1980s.

Barite is used as a drilling mud in oil exploration and has a number of medical and technical uses.