Stopped reading the article when I came to “Spodumene pegmatite”
Mmm seems like some sort of perverse sexual practice
“Right honey I’m ready for you. Spodumene pegmatite”
“When we were done there was Spodumene everywhere”
That’s where I hide my bales of coke….
Coke or sugar?
I haven’t read the article but I assume the Government have already sold it off to some multinational corporation at way below asking price?
This is my field!
Equally , it could not be.
Personally I wouldn’t be to fond of some multinational company turning Dublin, Wicklow, Wexford and Waterford into an open mine, but that’s just me.
Yea. It’s called mica and it’s worth billions.
First sentence of the article is wrong and whole article is misleading. Ireland has vast oil and gas reserves offshore and has more known zinc per square km that any other nation on earth.
Reading comments under the article on Facebook and the main takeaway people seem to have is that a UK based company will come and destroy every stone wall in the country looking for lithium.
This is not how mineral exploration or mining works. If there ever is a mine in Wicklow, Waterford or Carlow, it will be highly regulated and cause much fewer impacts to the environment that if it would be mined elsewhere. Given the depth of these deposit It likely won’t be an open pit mine as some people seem to fear (although there are hundred of quarries around the Country and very few object to them).
Any end profits made will of course go overseas to the companies that make the initial investments to explore in Ireland, which costs millions and is very high risk. In the process though they will have employed hundreds of people here and payed significant amounts of taxes to the state. Sure, would be great if all the profits stayed with an Irish company or with the State but the initial investment is so large that only huge multinationals can afford to do it. That’s just the world we live in, one that requires mining for almost everything we do. Until we figure out better methods for recycling materials, storing energy and creating energy, mining will continue all over the world. As a nation we have an obligation to ensure mining is carried out responsibly. We can’t just pass the buck to less developed, less regulated countries while we drive our Teslas and feel morally superior.
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Stopped reading the article when I came to “Spodumene pegmatite”
Mmm seems like some sort of perverse sexual practice
“Right honey I’m ready for you. Spodumene pegmatite”
“When we were done there was Spodumene everywhere”
That’s where I hide my bales of coke….
Coke or sugar?
I haven’t read the article but I assume the Government have already sold it off to some multinational corporation at way below asking price?
This is my field!
Equally , it could not be.
Personally I wouldn’t be to fond of some multinational company turning Dublin, Wicklow, Wexford and Waterford into an open mine, but that’s just me.
Yea. It’s called mica and it’s worth billions.
First sentence of the article is wrong and whole article is misleading. Ireland has vast oil and gas reserves offshore and has more known zinc per square km that any other nation on earth.
Reading comments under the article on Facebook and the main takeaway people seem to have is that a UK based company will come and destroy every stone wall in the country looking for lithium.
This is not how mineral exploration or mining works. If there ever is a mine in Wicklow, Waterford or Carlow, it will be highly regulated and cause much fewer impacts to the environment that if it would be mined elsewhere. Given the depth of these deposit It likely won’t be an open pit mine as some people seem to fear (although there are hundred of quarries around the Country and very few object to them).
Any end profits made will of course go overseas to the companies that make the initial investments to explore in Ireland, which costs millions and is very high risk. In the process though they will have employed hundreds of people here and payed significant amounts of taxes to the state. Sure, would be great if all the profits stayed with an Irish company or with the State but the initial investment is so large that only huge multinationals can afford to do it. That’s just the world we live in, one that requires mining for almost everything we do. Until we figure out better methods for recycling materials, storing energy and creating energy, mining will continue all over the world. As a nation we have an obligation to ensure mining is carried out responsibly. We can’t just pass the buck to less developed, less regulated countries while we drive our Teslas and feel morally superior.