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March 06, 2009

Conroy Diamonds And Gold Could Be Sitting On 20 Million Ounces Of Gold On The Longford-Down Massif In Ireland

By Alastair Ford

Fresh off the plane from PDAC, Professor Conroy gets on the phone to Minesite for a chat about the latest developments on his company’s licences in Ireland. These stretch along a continous line in a south-west, north-east trend, and span the border between the Republic and Northern Ireland. A truly unifying Irish proposition then, Conroy Diamonds And Gold, and if then, as it ought to be, the luck of the Irish is riding with Conroy too, it might turn out that the company’s sitting on an awful lot of gold.

Old hands in the junior mining sector will know that Professor Conroy and his team have been poking around up at Longford-Down for several years now, or, as the professor himself puts it, “stubbing our toes on various orebodies”. It can be a slow process, exploration, but Professor Conroy’s developed projects and built mines before, so he knows how it goes. And at last the hard work up at Longford-Down looks like it’s beginning to pay off, at last. For one thing, Conroy now has a million JORC...