Treasure Leitrim, Gold Mining in Leitrim - Public Meeting 2022
Channel: Treasure Leitrim
Date: 04/09/2022

Treasure Leitrim's public meeting on gold mining, held the Bee Park Community Centre, Manorhamilton, on July 18, 2022.

The event featured a number of contributors: Brian Smyth, Eddie Mitchell and James Gilmartin from Treasure Leitrim, Fidelma O'Kane from the Save Our Sperrins group in Co.Tyrone, Gordon Dunn from Cooperate Against Mining in Omagh (CAMIO) , and Emma B. Mincks, a writer, scholar and activist from the Black Hills in South Dakota, a mining-affected area. 

This video covers some of the most important points covered in the 2.5 hour event. For a complete recording with timestamps, see: https://youtu.be/Z34uN7d8yMg

To get one of the "No Access for Mineral Prospecting" signs for your own land, email treasureleitrim@gmail.com, or call into Fulacht Fiadh cafe in Manorhamilton or the Killasnet Co-op.

For people who own land on Leitrim and are considering putting up a sign against access for prospectors, it may be useful to know that the 2017 mining legislation does seek to undermine farmers/landowners power in this regard. According to a Treasure Leitrim review of the legislation, the act provides a mechanism that allows the mining company to seek an injunction in the high court.