{"id":800151,"date":"2026-10-12T12:22:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T12:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/800151\/"},"modified":"2026-10-12T12:22:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T12:22:16","slug":"mineral-deposits-worth-exploring-but-possibly-not-large-enough-for-commercial-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/800151\/","title":{"rendered":"Mineral deposits &#8216;worth exploring but possibly not large enough for commercial success&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"aiir-c-news-extra__timestamp\">\n                    Monday, 12 October 2026 06:26\n                <\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aiir-c-news-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/344518-1.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><br \/>\n                                    Picture credit: Pixabay<\/p>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-article__abstract\">\n            Geologist discusses opportunities on the Isle of Man\n        <\/p>\n<p>A geologist believes there would be mineral deposits worth exploring on the Isle of Man, but isn&#8217;t sure it would be large enough to sustain a commercial operation.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Keith Barron lived on the Isle of Man for a time in the 1970s.<\/p>\n<p>Developers in Anglesey have in recent years worked towards reopening a copper works on the Welsh island.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Barron says the Isle of Man has similar geology to Anglesey so there could be similar opportunities here, but only if they&#8217;re big enough:<\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Monday, 12 October 2026 06:26 Picture credit: Pixabay Geologist discusses opportunities on the Isle of Man A geologist&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":800152,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[96,758,59,102,755,756,757,128,50,759,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-800151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-entertainment","tag-fun","tag-gb","tag-health","tag-isle-of-man","tag-manx","tag-manx-news","tag-music","tag-news","tag-presenters","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=800151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/800152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=800151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=800151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=800151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}