Projects

Minco Exploration holds interests in Prospecting Licences in Ireland which are considered highly prospective for the discovery of zinc-lead mineralisation. Minco has interests in five projects located within the Irish Midlands Orefield that are operated by Minco’s wholly owned subsidiaries, either alone or in joint venture with Boliden Tara Mines DAC (“Boliden”).

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Minco continues its dual focused business model which maintains an interest in the blue-sky potential of our exiting exploration portfolio whilst also fast-tracking more advanced projects through to economic studies.

Simplified Geological Map of Ireland

Minco’s projects are located within the Irish Midlands Orefield and are near or adjacent to major historic mines or deposits. The Irish Midlands Orefield has been a major source of zinc and lead production since the 1960s and is currently home to some of Europe’s largest zinc projects including the Navan (Tara) Zinc-Lead mine (Boliden), the Pallas Green deposit (Glencore) and the past producing Lisheen mine (Vedanta) and Galmoy mine (Lundin Mining).

Minco Exploration’s projects are located in areas all are considered highly prospective for economic Irish-type zinc-lead deposits.

Minco Prospecting Licences’s

Map of Ireland showing major structural trends and bedrock geologic map showing the locations of the various Zn-Pb deposits within the Irish Midlands Orefield. The map and faults in the inset map of Ireland are modified from the 1:500,000 map of the Geological Survey of Ireland (2014).