Dalradian Gold request further prospecting licence for 70sq miles from Draperstown to Dungiven
Mid Ulster District councillors are to be told on Thursday that the Department of Enterprise is considering giving Dalradian Gold another prospecting licence - this time for all minerals.
The news comes in the midst of a campaign against a proposed goldmine under the same company in the Sperrin Mountains town of Greencastle.
This new prospecting licence, which covers almost 70sq miles, appears to branch into a much larger area of the Sperrins.
Stretching from the tip of Draperstown in Mid Ulster, right up to and including Dungiven, it also takes in a small section of Fermanagh and Omagh District Council area.