Connemara Mining Company plc was established in 2006 by veterans of the Irish zinc industry to exploit zinc opportunities in Ireland and currently holds 38 prospecting licences in central and south-west Ireland. Connemara’s licences are for some or all of the base metals (Bm), barite (b), gold (g), silver (s), and platinum group elements (PGE). The Connemara exploration philosophy is trendology and closeology - follow the mineralised trends and obtain ground as close as possible to existing or former zinc/lead mines.
16/05/12
Connemara Mining said this morning it had completed an airborne survey over a block of five licences in the Wicklow and Wexford areas of Ireland which may have uncovered previously unknown potential gold targets.
15/05/12
Connemara Mining (LON:CON) is an Irish based exploration company taking a fresh look at the gold potential there. Below, in a Q&A, Connemara outlines its current activities and plans.
09/03/12
Zinc's price is expected to rocket in the medium term, with several mining analysts going bullish on the metal as the market is expected to switch from surplus to deficit sometime in 2014.
24/02/12
Stonepark is now known to comprise of three zones. The latest drill results reveal that the Teck Resources led joint venture is expanding the known zinc-lead mineralisation to the south and northeast.
02/02/12
Connemara Mining’s gold joint venture at Mine River in Ireland adds a new dimension to a story seen previously as a zinc/lead play, according to Optiva Securities.
20/12/11
Connemara Mining this morning unveiled what it described as “exciting” drilling results from the western portion of the Stonepark project in Limerick, Ireland.
14/12/11
Connemara Mining's share price suggests the market just isn’t recognising the company’s potential. This may be because it has been caught in the market-wide sell-off that has hit the small-cap sector hardest. Or perhaps it’s as chairman John Teeling suggests – that this tightly held stock has been under-promoted, and therefore overlooked.
08/09/11
Broker Optiva Securities believes that Connemara’s current market cap of around £3 million does not take into account the Irish firm’s “world class potential” discoveries
14/07/11
Connemara Mining looks to be well placed following yesterday’s news that Minco plans to sell its stake in the Pallas Green zinc project in Ireland to joint venture partner Xtrata for $19.4m. Broker Optiva believes the deal has "positive implications" for Connemara’s own zinc prospect, right next door to Pallas.
25/05/11
After mining company Connemara revealed positive results from its Stonepark property in County Limerick, analyst Jason Robertson, of broker Optiva Securities said it could potentially be a world class deposit
08/03/11
Optiva Securities analyst Jason Robertson reckons there’s an 80 percent chance that Connemara is holding at least the 'tail' of a potentially world class zinc ore-body in Ireland. It is a partner in one of two projects that might be connected on an important new zinc system. The analyst's bullish 50p target is based on Connemara's project having just 25 percent of the overall deposit, but further drilling may prove that Stonepark is in fact the 'head' of the ore-body.
28/12/10
A serial entrepreneur whose business interests span diamonds, gold and oil, John Teeling is probably best known in his native Ireland as the founder of the Cooley Whiskey Distillery. However on London’s junior market he is widely renowned for his excellent track record as a company builder in the natural resources exploration sector. Here in his own words are Teeling’s highlights and thoughts on the year to come.
19/11/09
There is no reason why Connemara Mining should not be involved in the development of one of the first major Irish zinc mines of the 21st century
13/07/09
John Teeling, Chairman of Connemara Mining, talks about two zinc discoveries in Ireland - one of the world’s major zinc producing countries, Connemara’s joint venture with Teck Cominco, the possibility of a commercially viable zinc mine, 38 licence blocks, very high grades at an old lead mine, and a possible acquisition.
17/06/08
A transcript of our recent audio interview with John Teeling of Connemara Mining - PLUS additional material on the licensing, fiscal and environmental regimes, the downside and upside, for mineral companies in Ireland, also the characteristics and profitability of zinc mines in Ireland, the prospects for zinc and the AIM and IEX markets.
11/06/08
Excitement has emanated from Connemara?s Stonepark licence in County Limerick, which lies in close proximity to the Xstrata/Minco Pallas Green Discovery and the Lisheen and Galmoy zinc mines
Copyright © Proactiveinvestors.co.uk, 2012. All Rights Reserved Design & Development: Tehnicom Computers
