Three underground mines are currently operating in Ireland, in Counties Meath (Tara), Tipperary (Lisheen), and Monaghan (Drummond). Two of the mines – Tara and Lisheen – produce zinc\/lead concentrate, making Ireland the largest producer of zinc concentrate in the EU.<\/p>\n
A Lead Zinc mine in Kilkenny (Galmoy) was recently closed due to exhaustion of economic reserves. Drummond produces Gypsum for the Construction and Construction Products industries. Tara Mines in County Meath, now in operation for more than 30 years, is the third-largest zinc mine in the world.<\/p>\n
Drummond Mine in County Monaghan is the newest mine and came on stream in 2005. Lisheen Mine is currently in its last year of production, and closure of the mine is likely to commence in 2015.<\/p>\n\n
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1940s The Minerals Developments Act was passed at the beginning of the Second World War.\u00a0 There was a concern about the availability of resources.\u00a0 This is reflected in the principle of compulsory acquisition of unworked mines and minerals. The Slievardagh Coal Development Act 1941 and the Minerals Exploration and Development Act provided for the setting […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[190],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13351"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13351"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31659,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13351\/revisions\/31659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}