HC Deb 10 July 1917 vol 95 c1746
75. Mr. HACKETT

asked the Minister of Munitions what steps, if any, have been taken by the Government to procure copper ore from the Hollyford Copper Mines, Dundrum, county Tipperary?

Sir W. EVANS

These mines were last worked in 1862. They have been inspected, so far as the state of their workings would allow, by a representative of the Mineral Resources Department of the Ministry. They do not give sufficient encouragement to warrant the large expenditure that would be necessary to reopen them.