SHOWCASE ZINC MINE OF THE WEEK - TARA!!

Tara Mine is a zinc and lead mine near Navan, County Meath, Ireland. Tara is an underground mine where the orebody lies between 50 and 900 metres below the surface in carbonate-hosted lead-zinc ore deposits. The deposit was discovered in 1970 by Derek Michael Romer while working for Pat Hughes' Northgate Exploration. Development started in 1973 and production began in 1977. Tara Mine is operated by Boliden. It is the largest zinc mine in Europe and the ninth largest in the world producing 200,000 tonnes of zinc concentrate and 40,000 tonnes of lead concentrate annually. The mine life extends past 2015 - "Mining.com, Wikipedia"

To view the mine in Google Earth, kindly click on the link below:

"https://earth.app.goo.gl/aZ3Hb5"