Our helicopter trip from Bushmills to visit the Galantas Gold Mine near Omagh

Photo © Bob Torrens
It's an open cast pit and the minute particles of gold are embedded in a soft rock - so no need for blasting. Huge dumper trucks then take it to be milled. Incidentally, once this pit has been exhausted of the gold reserves, it will be filled in and returned to "normal countryside" once again
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