Mogul Mine (Garryard Mine; International Mogul Mines), Silvermines District, Co. Tipperary, Ireland

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Large zinc-lead mine worked from shafts, now abandoned (closed 1982) and flooded.
The mine achieved international fame due to the hundreds of fabulous specimens of honey blende sphalerite and mirror bright galena crystals recovered predominately from the 2-W-6 vug nicknamed the ''Great Vug'' which was discovered in the hangingwall of the main Upper G orebody.

At present (2009) the minesite is operating as a steel fabrication business so trespassing is strongly unadvised especially considering all the specimens are long gone (including drill cores).

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Silvermines (Ireland) Specimens Wanted! by Barry Flannery

Mineral List

Acanthite Anglesite Ankerite Argentotennantite Argyrodite Baryte Boulangerite Bournonite Calcite Chalcocite Chalcopyrite Covellite

Dolomite Erythrite Freibergite Galena Geocronite Gersdorffite Goethite Gudmundite Hematite Hemimorphite Hydrohetaerolite Illite

Jordanite Linarite Löllingite Malachite Marcasite Miargyrite Muscovite Proustite Pyrargyrite Pyrite Pyromorphite Pyrrhotite

Quartz Siderite Silver Smithite Smithsonite Sphalerite Tennantite Tetrahedrite Xanthoconite

45 entries listed. 45 valid minerals.

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