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lipsi
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13 years ago

Picked up on a Radio 4 report last night that A Scottish gold mine is likely to get the green light to reopen in the Loch Lomond area. Presume that this is the Cononish in Tyndrum.

Does anyone know more?

Thanksd

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Teigl
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13 years ago

There was a thread a while earlier in this forum here:

http://www.aditnow.co.uk/community/viewtopic.aspx?p=87502#msg87502

:thumbup:

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Moorebooks
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13 years ago

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-15432926

Mike

sinker
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13 years ago

Yes, saw it earlier. Sounds fairly convincing....? Fingers crossed! :thumbup:
It's in a National Park though so don't hold your breath! National Parks are a great idea, but the people in charge won't be happy until they have us all back in the stone age! :curse:

Yma O Hyd....

John Mason
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13 years ago

It's on :)

Hope it goes well for the company and the local lads who will get work from it.

Not quite the first though: in October 1990 Simon Hughes and I, helped by Frankie Curtis and Neil Ferguson, mined 6.5T of ore with a headgrade of 158 g/t from a wee opencut we put in at Calliachar Burn. That WAS the first hard-rock excavation in recent years in Scotland, and not bad given the tools we had were airpicks & a submersible pump (plus muscle)!

That whole belt is extremely interesting - you just need to be careful if at Tomnadashan mine you see an innocent-looking white rabbit hopping about 😉

Cheers - John

toadstone
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13 years ago

While watching Tales from the National Parks last night on BBC4 they screened a trailer for the next episode. It showed what I assumed to be some underground footage of the gold mine.

Full details of the series here: Loch Lomond and The Trossachs.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01708v7

Peter

BTW some of the content maybe out of date as was the case last night.

JMB
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13 years ago

This report in the Grauniad says that the company has test holes in Glen Orchy.

Loch Lomond goldmine approval sparks fears for national park

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/oct/30/loch-lomond-goldmine-national-park?newsfeed=true

MB

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JMB
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13 years ago

"toadstone" wrote:
While watching Tales from the National Parks last night on BBC4 they screened a trailer for the next episode. It showed what I assumed to be some underground footage of the gold mine.

I will add this on here because I don't know where it was filmed.

BBC Scotland's Landward programme has an item on the Scottish Cave Rescue Organisation this week.

Quote:

Cave Rescue

Duration: 01:32

Sarah Mack takes on the role of an injured adventurer trapped deep below ground in a cave system. Fortunately, the Scottish Cave Rescue team are on hand to get her to safety.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00lghvb

Quote:

NATURE: Landward
On: BBC 2 Scotland (02)
Date: Friday 4th November 2011 (starting in 4 days)
Time: 19:00 to 19:30 (30 minutes long)

Dougie Vipond is on Rum to meet the community trust now running much of the island. Nick Nairn is at an auction of rare Scotch whisky and Sarah Mack takes part in a cave rescue exercise.
(Stereo, Widescreen, Subtitles)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
http://www.getdigiguide.tv/?p=1&r=7346

Copyright (c) GipsyMedia Limited.

The programme will be on iPlayer after transmission and can be watched outside Scotland on FreeSat.

MB

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Jimbo
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13 years ago

Tales from the National Parks, BBC4 now, all about the battle for Scotlands first gold mine, Cononish in Tyndrum.

Repeated again at about midnight 😉

"PDHMS, WMRG, DCC, Welsh Mines Society, Northern Mines Research Group, Nenthead Mines Society and General Forum Gobshite!"

stuey
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13 years ago

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The snag is with gravytraining charity sector tossers riding such romantic vehicles as these is that half the people on board haven't got a fricking clue about how economics works.

I despair. Let's hope common sense prevails. I imagine some luddite retired lib-dem idiots will put a spanner in the works, in the name of the greater good.

I am surprised that a lot of Welsh gold is not kicking off again.

Same old assault course, I suppose.

Ty Gwyn
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13 years ago

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"stuey" wrote:

I am surprised that a lot of Welsh gold is not kicking off again.

Same old assault course, I suppose.

It is surprising,that planning has been granted for the Scottish mine,beings they will be levelling arounf 400,000 tons of waste on the surface in a national park,yet was nt it a planning case with Gwynfynydd when they needed more surface area for spoil to carry on working,that made it unviable.

Coggy
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13 years ago

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"stuey" wrote:
The snag is with gravytraining charity sector tossers riding such romantic vehicles as these is that half the people on board haven't got a fricking clue about how economics works.

I despair. Let's hope common sense prevails. I imagine some luddite retired lib-dem idiots will put a spanner in the works, in the name of the greater good.

I am surprised that a lot of Welsh gold is not kicking off again.

Same old assault course, I suppose.

That charity, The Friends of Loch Lomond and the Trossachs, I wonder where the funding comes from ?
The National Park has a very expensive HQ, staffed by very well paid individuals. I wonder where the funding for that comes from ? Oh, I know, its English taxpayers. Ho hum.

if eight out of ten cats all prefer Whiskas
Do the other two prefer Lesley Judd ?

Aditaddict
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13 years ago

#13

If you think that programe was bad , go to BBC I player and watch the Mark Weir one about the planning application for his zip wire at Honister
A couple of flowers scuppered the whole project and cost his widow £15,000
The whole worlds gone mad !