IMC Exploration (IMCP) – Modern Mining in the Vale of Avoca.

Excerpts from a brief history of metal mining in the Vale of Avoca, County Wicklow – by Alan Thomas and Peadar McArdle – Published by IMC Exploration (IMCP) Modern Mining in the Vale of Avoca (1958-1982) Mining in the Avoca Valley between 1958-1982 relied for the greater part on underground trackless mining – extracting large tonnages of […]

IMC Exploration (IMCP) – Avoca, Our Mining Heritage

Excerpts from a brief history of metal mining in the Vale of Avoca, County Wicklow – by Alan Thomas and Peadar McArdle. The Vale of Avoca is a beautiful part of County Wicklow, deservedly know as the “Garden of Ireland”. It features on the earliest known map of Ireland by the geographer Ptolemy who is said to […]