IMC Exploration – Irish Landscape – Vale of Avoca

An excerpt from The Irish Landscape, a book by Dr Peadar McArdle, geologist and former director of the Geological Society of Ireland. Wicklow – Mountain -Building in Seven Easy Stages. Stage 3:   This stage spotlights the rocks surrounding the Vale of Avoca, which developed as part of a chain of volcanic islands on the Iapetus […]

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

The sharp moves in financial markets and subsequent 25% increase in the price of gold since the start of the year has seen an unprecedented rush to gold and gold stocks as safe havens Excerpts from a brief history of metal mining in the Vale of Avoca, County Wicklow – by Alan Thomas and Peadar McArdle – Published […]

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 […]