 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Table 3. Introduction The lower Carboniferous of Ireland is host to a large number of base metal deposits...deposits Deposit Host Tonnage Navan Aherlow Mallow Gortdrum Tatestown Oldcastle Keel Abbeytown Clogherboy...is widespread throughout the southern half of Ireland as the Cork Red Marble (Shearley 1989) and equivalent...zonation from copper-rich deposits in the south (Munster Basin and south Limerick Province) to zincrich...Rock Lithology Aherlow Limerick Province Gortdrum Munster basin Allihies & Carbery Deposit Table 2 |  | | Journal (issue) | | mineral & lapidary society SMLS Field Trip To Ireland Journal 210 - November/December 2007 SUSSEX...We plan to visit a range of quarries, mines and mine dumps. There is the possibility of underground collecting...collecting at two locations ( Nizna Slana - mercury mine and Vysna Boca - sulphosalts of Cu and Bi ). Signing...l FIELD TRIP TO IRELAND May 2007 Introduction. The decision to collect in Ireland in May 2007 was made...2007 field trip programme. SMLS had never been to Ireland and it seemed like a good idea at the time! In-house |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | sulphide mineral containing copper and mercury, from Ireland G. M. STEEO Department of Mineral Exploitation...dolomite and baryte which cuts dolomitized limestones from the Gortdrum Orebody of County Tipperary, Ireland...9~ and the VHNlo hardness range 186 to 230. THE Gortdrum orebody lies in basal Carboniferous sedimentary...rock surface, a small composite ferroan dolomite-baryte vein containing disseminated cinnabar occurred...content should be 4[CulsFeHg6S16]. Discussion. Baryte in this and other veins at G o r t d r u m postdates |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 5AB, Northern Ireland AND E I L E E N FARLEY Geological Section, National Museum of Ireland, 7-9 Merrion...occurrences in Ireland more recent than the Manual of the Mineralogy of Great Britain and Ireland of Greg and...known from the British Isles, about 360 occur in Ireland. Forty of these Irish minerals are listed here...exploration of metalliferous deposits in the Republic of Ireland. Indeed, about half the entries in the list below...(1986) Geology and genesis of mineral deposits in Ireland, Irish Association for Economic Geology, Dublin |  | | Journal (issue) | | D. Freier ------22 ------MICRO MINERALS FROM IRELAND BOARD 0.1. Green G. Ryback • S. JJ/oreto11 S...Figure 3. CALEDONITE (0.25mm) on LINARITE: Red Gill mine Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria. R.S.W. Braithwaite Collection...the rare ban·um zeoliteham1otomeat Pen-y-Cl1111 Mine is thoughtto be only the third locali!J•forthe mineral...recorded from the Benallt Mine, Rhiw, Gwynedd (Smith & Bannister, 1944}and Cwm Orog Mine, Llangynog, Powys (Russell...MS), to which we can now add an occurrence with baryte and witherite at Pen-y-Clun .\fine. This locality |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | sulphides from gold-bearing deposits, Britain and Ireland John Parnell a , Sam Spinksb and Nigel Blameyc...samples from goldbearing deposits in Britain and Ireland are anomalously rich in methane. Chalcopyrite samples...Neoproterozoic basement (Caledonides greenschist), Munster Basin (Variscides greenschist) and the Carboniferous...Neoproterozoic is methane-rich, but in the low-gold Munster Basin it is methane-poor. These gas data from opaque...This was tested using deposits from Britain and Ireland (Figure 1) by assessing if the compositions of |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | specimens found by the late Arthur Kingsbury (I9O6-68). County references are to the old boundaries, throughout...and arsenides near the south shaft at South Terras mine, St. Stephen-in-Brannell, Cornwall. R. J. Davis...on grey baryte, with tennantite in limestone, at Gortdrum mine, Oola, Co. Tipperary, Ireland. BM(NH)...ochreous, at West Turf Pits mine, Grassington Moor, Yorkshire. Also, at Treore mine, St. Teath, Cornwall. A...Ganophyllite Some of the ganophyllite at Benallt mine, Rhiw, Caernarvonshire (W. Campbell Smith et al |  | | Journal (issue) | | stream sediment survey of the area around Carrock Mine (Appleton and Wadge, 1976) shows three, roughly...resembles the quartz in the tungsten veins at Carrock mine, being very coarse and greasy with few cavities...associated with the Skiddaw Granite near Carrock Mine, Cumbria. Mineral Reconnaissance Programme. Report...Manual of the Mineralogy of Great Britain and Ireland. John van Voorst, London . ix, 483pp. [facsimile...the Lake District of Cumbria including Wanthwaite mine (Young., 1987); Nether Row Brow (Young et ai, 1992) |  | Johnson, Aaron W., Shelton, Kevin L., Gregg, Jay M., Somerville, Ian D., Wright, Wayne R., Nagy, Zsolt R. (2009) Regional studies of dolomites and their included fluids: recognizing multiple chemically distinct fluids during the complex diagenetic history of Lower Carboniferous (Mississippian) rocks of the Irish Zn-Pb ore field. Mineralogy and Petrology, 96 (1) 1-18 doi:10.1007/s00710-008-0038-x | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | USA I. D. Somerville University College, Dublin, Ireland W. R. Wright Bureau of Economic Geology, Jackson...accreted to form the basement rocks underlying Ireland. These rocks consist mainly of folded and faulted...and resulted in uplift in central and southern Ireland. In the Upper Devonian, back-arc extension resulted...during the Lower Carboniferous. Rocks in southern Ireland were deformed in a fold and thrust zone, now termed...corresponds to the northern edge of the South Munster Basin (Hitzman 1995) (Fig. 1). Lower Carboniferous |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | (Sverige) Aln6 lsland, titanomagnetite, 265 Brattfors mine, Nordmarks Odalffalt, Viirmland, manganhumite, katoptrite...Gutter, Brook, Hampshire, glauconite, 373 Mill Close mine, Darley Dale, Derbyshire, corundophilite, I7I Seathwaite... 373 Turf Pits mine, Grassington, Yorkshire, spencerite, I76 Cornwall Botallack mine, digenite, I72 Carn...pseudomorphous after analcime, 245 INDEX Geevor mine, neotocite, 279 and M26 Luxulyan, luxullianite (in...apatite, hornblende, diopside, 427 South Terras mine, St. Stephen-in-Brannell, francevillite, I72 Stamps |  | | Book | | GEOLOGY AND GENESIS OF MINERAL DEPOSITS IN IRELAND ■■ — <.d ■ /A-- 'W .. 1 Edited by CJ. Andrew... ■ Geology and Genesis of Mineral Deposits in Ireland The front cover photograph shows a general view...from the 1 : 1.000,000 map Mineral Deposits of Ireland, 1984. by M. L. Browne and C. G. R. Reid, produced... Geology and Genesis of Mineral Deposits in Ireland Edited by C. J. Andrew, R. W. A. Crowe, S. Finlay...be ordered from: GGMDI c/o Geological Survey of Ireland Beggars Bush Haddington Rd. Dublin 4 Phone: 609511 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | ), The Inishdawros metaperidotite, Connemara, Ireland, 69 AHMED (Z.), Chromite from Sakhakot-Qila, Pakistan...St. Just aureole, Cornwall, 427 Alice Mary copper mine, W. Australia, lavendulan, 369 Alkali feldspar,...Island, Sweden, titanomagnetite, 265 Amalgam, Tipperary, I7O Amba Dongar, Gujarat, India, magnetite, 463...breakdown product of staurolite from Donegal, 237 Auburn mine, Michigan, stilpnomelane, 36I and M37 Augite, Turkey...anal., opt., sp. gr., X-ray, I79 Bali Low copper mine, Capricorn Range, W. Australia, lavendulan, 369 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Zn-Pb mineralisation in the Silvermines district, Ireland: a product of burial diagenesis Received: 04 April...1984; Andrew 1986; Samson and Russell 1987). While Ireland is regarded as the type locality for this style...study we describe 88 Fig. 1 Location map of Ireland outlining the location of: the Rathdowney Trend...Courtbrown deposit, Navan, Silvermines, Tynagh, and Gortdrum deposits (Hitzman and Beaty 1996) the diagenesis...localities is available from the Geological Survey of Ireland (GSI). For stable isotope analyses, samples of |  | | Journal (issue) | | the slderite box epfmorph from lho Virtuous lady mine. Devon I am in the proces.s of reading Mick Cooper's...Bulgaria in 2006 , from the depths of the Druzbha mine near Madan. Also collected from Bulgaria, but from...(by Peter Moore) was a drill core, collected in Ireland, that presented an attractive cluster of dolomite...as cassiterite, were included from the Hemerdon Mine in Devon. Overall this made up a display of 14 specimens... getting deeper into a mine first of all relies on getting access to the mine, many of which are now |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | and potash. The final chapter on the Republic of Ireland by C. E. Williams and P. McArdle, stresses the... and baryte, the Silvermines deposit with lead, zinc, and baryte, and the Gortdrum copper mine. The approach... At this scale tion of the ore from the Benallt mine in North the question is posed as to whether the |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Notes © Springer-Verlag 1982 Mineralization in Ireland- Some Unanswered Questions Comments on the Paper...portion of central Ireland, n a m e l y Keel, Navan, Silvermines and Tynagh. Surely Gortdrum, A h e r l o w...mineralization stretehing across the very south of Ireland. Second I would like to mention the geographical...lead isotope ratios in the orebodies of eentral Ireland detected by Greig et al. (1971). T h e y considered...sources of the mineralization in Great Britain and Ireland. This last observation leads on to a third but |  | | Journal (issue) | | (Germany) Hemerdon Mine update 2 3 6 12 12 13 16 19 19 19 22 23 South Crofty Mine update Scotgold Cononish...wanting to know what references were made to any given Mine, something which I was able to make use of in my...to document the history of the famous Herodsfoot Mine in Cornwall, and saving hundreds of hours of search...National Service and was placed in the New Dunn Mine near Coleford in the Forest of Dean. 32nd BRITISH...1946, which was intended to reopen the Esgair Mwyn Mine in Cardiganshire. BMS member Neil Hubbard spent |  | | Report (volume) | | Department of Geology, University College, Dublin, Ireland 1996 Published by The Geological Society London...Carboniferous-hosted base metal mineral deposits in Ireland SHEARLEY, E., REDMOND, P., KING, M. & GOODMAN,...dolomitization of the Lisheen Zn-Pb-Ag Deposit, Co. Tipperary, Ireland HOLLIS, C. & WALKDEN, G. The use of burial... H. E. A. Late Vis6an buildups at Kingscourt, Ireland: possible precursors for Upper Carboniferous bioherms...systems and coastal zone sedimentation in northwest Ireland Carbonate platforms and ramps RIZZI, G. & BRAITHWAITE |  | | Catalog/List | | colours than A. £5. 3. ALSTONITE, Brownley Hill mine, Nenthead, Cumbria. 4x3.5x3.2cm. Ex D. Hoyle coll...xtls. A fine example. £6. 7. ANATASE, Virtuos Lady mine, Devon. l.4xl.5xlcm. A MM with a micro xtl of sparkly...top. £4. IO. APATITE, llarding's Vein. · Carrock mine, Caldbeck fells, Cumbria. 5x4x2.5cm . One fairly...Very pretty. £4. 16. AZURITE, Tynagh mine, Co. Galway, Ireland. Ex S.J.A.C. Brown coll. Old label. A...present. Good specimen. £ 12. 17. BARITE, Crowgarth mine, Cumbria. 5.5x5x3cm. A mass of pale blue and peach |  | | Journal (issue) | | when molten. We parked on the road as close to the mine site as possible and set off down a twisting track...partially filling the valley bottom - the top of the mine dump. Dilapidated building remains suggested it...stibnite, better than any collected from the Knipe mine in Southern Scotland. Some had silver blades in...Lubilhac-Antimony mine dumps and adits Reported by Roger Kemplen Lubilhac was the largest antimony mine in the...are criss-crossed with numerous mineral veins and mine workings. The main ore mineral was stibnite. Peter |  | | Report (volume) | | profiles of drillcore, Churchill prospect, Fay mine, and Nicklaw mine areas....................................White Creek, N.Y., to data for similar deposits in Ireland..................................................sulfides are more like those of Pb-Zn-Ag deposits of Ireland than those of MVT or Appalachian-type Zn deposits...fault - sawteeth on upper plate Contact Base-metal mine, occurrence, or prospect GEOLOGIC SETIING Nassau...of the area including the Fay mine, Churchill Prospect, and Nicklaw mine between 1981 and 1982; they drilled |  | | Journal (issue) | | in association with manganese ore at the Benallt Mine on the Lleyn Peninsula in Wales entered by Richard...and a specimen of green brochantite from the Hafan Mine at Nant-y-Moch in the Central Wales ore field entered...There were five entries in this class ranging from Ireland, through Germany and the Canary Islands to far-off...double terminated quartz crystal from the Jim Coleman mine, Arkansas. Many of his specimens came from unusual...wide selection from different parts of the UK and Ireland including: Blue sapphire crystals from the Isle |  | | Journal (issue) | | ., No 1. Mimetite, variety Campylite, Dry Gill mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria . _ ... Specimen: 135...J Mason -------- 42 -------MICROMINERALS from IRELAND G Ryback· S Moreton BOOK REVIEWS -----58----CLASSIFIED...Manual of the mineralogy of Great Britain (Ind Ireland Van Voorsc, London. HEDDLE, M.F. (1887) On the...(Telephone 0872 223227). August 2nd: Visit to Dufron Mine, Dufton, near Appleby. Meet at Dufton Village municipal...01-4171-680). October 4th: Visit to Force Crag Mine, Keswick. Meet at Braithwaite Church, by Coledale |  | | Book | | France, and Morocco 127 1985 - Bedford United Mine 140 1986 - 1989 More Foreign Travel 154 1990...David Lloyd laddering down a shaft at Bedford United Mine, Devon. Introduction I was born in Bristol on...Tungsten Mine, at Plympton, Devon, followed by an attempt to rework the famous Tsumeb Mine in Namibia...inform me that a new mineral species from the Tsumeb Mine in Namibia was to be named after me. This came as...sold off most of my mineral collection, pictures, mine plans, memorabilia etc. We spent the next few years |  | | Book | | Its Relationship to Mineralization in Central Ireland D.G. Jones, J.A. Plant, and T.B. Colman . . . ...assumption, which in the case of the ore deposits in Ireland is mainly based on the need of temperatures higher...the earbonate-hosted Lisheen Zn-Pb-Ag deposit in Ireland (Hitzman 1992) illustrates the essential role played...mineralization in the Silvermines area, County Tipperary, Ireland. In: Andrew CJ, Crowe RWA, Finlay S, PenneIl...(eds) Geology and genesis of mineral deposits in Ireland. Irish Assoc Econ Geol, Dublin, pp 377-417 Ashton |
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Gortdrum Mine, Monard, Tipperary County, Munster, Ireland