Mining Equipment at the Omagh Gold Project, UK

Mining equipment and personnel are busy at the Omagh gold project which is located in Crown Estate with prospecting licence OM 1/03, covers an area of approximately 189km2, within of Tyrone and Fermanagh in western Northern Ireland. It produces gold with an estimated measured and indicated reserves of 104,000oz Au and inferred resources of 295,800oz Au of out of the mineral type Pyrite and Galena resting on a quartz-feldspar-muscovite-chlorite schists, shales and sandstones geology.

The processing plant uses conventional crushing, grinding and flotation to produce a lead sulphide concentrate. Mining equipment used are a narrow excavator bucket to pick up the ore and then taken to a nearby processing plant by dump truck. Power is provided by a 1,000kVA genset, a 400kWA genset and an 80kVA genset, although not all are in use at any one time. Galantas anticipates that mains electricity will be provided in due course.