However local environmental groups are concerned about the threat of pollution from the use of cyanide in extracting gold from ore.
Cormac McAleer, from Save Our Sperrins, recently welcomed Sinn Féin’s support at their Ard Fheis for a motion opposing the use of cyanide in mining.
He said: “No amount of spin can paper over the cracks in the propaganda being pumped out by PR consultants or fool the public on the toxic time bomb that a full-scale gold mining operation, complete with processing plant, would be for the children of Greencastle, Rouskey and of Ireland.”
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