The Department for Economy knew about a mine collapse that risked lives at Flintridge Resource’s Northern Ireland mine before renewing the firm’s prospecting licence for the area in October.
Flintridge Resources Ltd, which is owned by Canadian company Galantas Gold, operates Cavanacaw gold mine on Upper Botera Road outside Omagh, Co Tyrone.
It was there that 150 tonnes of falling rock missed a worker in an underground shaft by two metres after what a judge described as “too many explosives” being set off on July 9, 2018.
