2,000 jobs on cards at Clare mine

More than 2,000 jobs could be created as part of a new zinc mining operation in Quin, Co Clare.

Australian businessman Michael Hudson is heading a newly formed company which has just bought a site at Kilbrecken in Quin, near Ennis, from Canadian mining company Lundin.

Extremely high-grade zinc has been discovered in deep veins at the site and indications are good that a major mining operation may be possible.