Building a Tourist Attraction

BUILDING A TOURIST ATTRACTION Recently we welcomed our 1000th a million visitors since then. The The Dolaucothi Gold Mine sits in one Our 1000th visitor was a group of visitor to our tunnel tours, which tours offer people the chance of Wales’ most picturesque valleys, schoolchildren from Foyle College have been running since 2016. The to go underground and see the not dissimilar to Owenkillew, and it in Derry. Other visitors have come tours, which highlight health and last working coal mine in Ireland, lies at the heart of the local area’s from the locality, from schools and safety, engineering and geology which closed in 1990, and be tourist efforts. colleges, and from as far away as aspects of the proposed mine, have guided by former miners. South Africa and the USA! been universally praised by those There’s a café at the mine, as well who have taken the tour, with many Further afield, in one of the as a shop selling Welsh gold, and Underground mine tours are an describing it as a once in a lifetime most scenic parts of Wales, an the National Trust promotes local established part of the tourist scene experience. When the mine is up underground gold mine is also guesthouses, pubs and hotels in the in many countries and there’s no and running, we will broaden the being used to attract tourists. area, encouraging visitors to the reason they shouldn’t be in west mine to extend their stays. Tyrone, helping pull in more visitors tour, with further explanation of Owned by the National Trust, the the geological history of the area, to the area with a knock-on effect Dolaucothi Gold Mine in south Wales isn’t alone in promoting for local businesses in one of the and the economic potential of Wales was operational until 1938 mining tourism. In Cumbria the mining for the people of Tyrone. most beautiful parts of the island and while there’s still gold in the local tourist authority promotes of Ireland. Mining tourism is a well established mine it is no longer economically underground tours of local limestone economic driver for many areas viable to extract it. and granite mines, in Derbyshire Mining tourism can help bring across the world, and we believe tours of lead mines are part of the new visitors to the area. We look that the opening o the Curraghinalt Now open to tourists the mine tourist offering and in Cornwall they forward to welcoming our next mine can have a significant positive offers visitors the chance to believe their World Heritage Site 1,000 visitors, and to making sure tourism impact in the Sperrins. explore an underground mine and on mining puts them on a par with that Dalradian plays an active part get a glimpse of life as a miner. It India’s Taj Mahal. in building an economically and Indeed here on the island of Ireland, also serves as a learning resource, in Derreenavoggy, Co. Roscommon, socially sustainable community in explaining the geology of the We believe our proposed West Tyrone. the Arigna mining tours have rocks and allows visitors a glimpse underground gold mine can play a been running since 2003 and have into yesteryear. major role in attracting tourists to welcomed more than a quarter of the Area of Outstanding Beauty that is the Sperrins. DALRADIAN GOLD LTD. NORTHERN IRELAND OFFICE 67 Main Street Gortin, World-class Mine County Tyrone, BT79 8NH Tel: 028 8164 8012 Email: [email protected] Jobs in Tyrone.

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