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Quartz from
Parnell Quarry, Arklow, Wicklow County, Leinster, Ireland


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Quartz
Formula:SiO2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Quartz data
Locality Data:Click here to view Parnell Quarry, Arklow, Wicklow County, Leinster, Ireland
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1612207
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1612207:5
GUID (UUID V4):84dbde4e-8aea-43bb-968b-07dd11f421a5
Nearest other occurrences of Quartz
9.1km (5.7 miles) Gold Mines River, Croghan Kinshela Mountain, Wicklow County, Leinster, Ireland
11.3km (7.0 miles) Ballycoog, Gold Mines River, Croghan Kinshela Mountain, Wicklow County, Leinster, Ireland
11.4km (7.1 miles) Ballygahan Mine, Avoca, Wicklow County, Leinster, Ireland
12.1km (7.5 miles) Ballymurtagh Mine, Avoca, Wicklow County, Leinster, Ireland
13.0km (8.1 miles) Tigroney Mine (East Avoca Open Pit; St. Patrick's Mine), Avoca, Wicklow County, Leinster, Ireland
13.4km (8.3 miles) Cronebane Mine, Avoca, Wicklow County, Leinster, Ireland
13.8km (8.5 miles) Connary mine (Connorree mine), Avoca, Wicklow County, Leinster, Ireland
19.0km (11.8 miles) Ballinglen, Aughrim, Wicklow County, Leinster, Ireland
27.9km (17.4 miles) Clonkeen mine, Glenmalure, Wicklow County, Leinster, Ireland
30.1km (18.7 miles) Glendalough mine, Glendalough, Wicklow County, Leinster, Ireland
References
Stephen Moreton CollectionIdentified by Stephen Moreton: Visual Identification
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Dr. F. H. Hatch—The Wicklow Greenstones. 261 amount of creeping in the second place will be nine times...Director-General of the Geological Survey.) n i H E Wicklow greenstones occur in sheets and dykes intrusive...that lie to the east of the main chain of the Leinster granite. Like the Welsh greenstones, they are...of what has already appeared in the memoir. The Wicklow greenstones have this advantage over those of many...1 Prof. von. Lasaulx,2 during a short visit to Ireland in 1876, collected some specimens which, he described
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case study from the Copper Coast, southeastern Ireland using field, geochemical and fluid inclusion data...Natural Sciences, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland. Camborne School of Mines, College of...Craig Storey] ABSTR ACT Volcanic rocks in south County Waterford include flow-top hyaloclastite, pillow...microthermometric data from genetically-related mineralized quartz veins reveal a hydrothermal vein mineralization...hydrothermal alteration, Ireland. Introduction THE southeast volcanic belt in Ireland (Fig. 1) comprises Ordovician
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Lead isotopes Gold Orogenic belts Lode Placer Ireland a b s t r a c t Lead isotope analyses have been...for the widespread sulphide mineralisation in Ireland. It is inferred that the principal controls on...Numerous (N100) gold occurrences are present in Ireland (Maclaren, 1903; McArdle et al., 1987; Stanley...goldbearing mineralisation in Ireland, although O'Keeffe (1986) and Parnell et al. (2000) performed analyses...Geological setting 2.1. The geology of Ireland The geology of Ireland (Fig. 1) reflects a long and complex
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Metalliferous Groundwaters Liam A. Bullock 1,2, * , John Parnell 2 , Joseph G.T. Armstrong 2 , Magali Perez 2 and...identified in coals from the Leinster Coalfield, Castlecomer, SE Ireland, for the first time. Gold mineralisation...groundwater; siderite; pyrite; Variscan orogeny; Ireland 1. Introduction Much of the world’s resources...Castlecomer, SE Ireland rich gold particulates within Carboniferous coalswithin at Castlecomer, SE Ireland (Figure...basement of SE Ireland are precious metal deposits in the Caledonian basement of SE Ireland are represented
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2014 KEY WORDS Ordovician; basalt; pillow lava; Ireland; Scotland; Wales; deep biosphere 1. INTRODUCTION...Wellsbury, 2004; Schrenk et al., 2010; McMahon and Parnell, 2013). Signatures of this deep biosphere are limited...on Earth (Jørgensen and *Correspondence to: J. Parnell, School of Geosciences, University of Aberdeen...Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. 498 J. PARNELL ET AL. to explain sulphur isotope data from the...or open oceanic deposition over much of Wales, Ireland and southern Scotland. The Ordovician may have
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Geological Heritage Programme Geological Survey of Ireland Beggars Bush Haddington Road Dublin 4 Tel: 01-6782837...was supported by This report is an action of the County Carlow Heritage Plan 2003 - 2007 1 Contents...……………………………………………….……… 18 Data sources on the geology of County Carlow ……………………………….……… 19 Bibliography ………………...Aclare Ballyellin Quarry Bannagagole Quarry Ballymoon Esker, Bagenalstown Morrisey’s Quarry, Clonmelsh Clogrenan...Clogrenan Quarry Appendix 1 Files relating to County Carlow on the GSI DMS Appendix 2 Prospecting Licence
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evidence from the Munster Basin, Ireland Samuel C. Spinks, John Parnell, David Bellis, John Still PII:...Please cite this article as: Spinks, Samuel C., Parnell, John, Bellis, David, Still, John, Remobilization...metamorphosed red beds: evidence from the Munster Basin, Ireland, Ore Geology Reviews (2015), doi: 10.1016/j.oregeorev...metamorphosed red beds: evidence from the Munster Basin, Ireland IP T Samuel C. Spinks1, 2*, John Parnell1 David...metasedimentary terranes. The Munster Basin of southern Ireland is a good study area for sedimentary Se-Te in such
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ferri-ferrohornblende, kirwanite, County Down, Northern Ireland, 253; fibres, flexibility of, 327; Zr-bearing...using MLDE, 357 Argentotennantite, Silvermines, Ireland, 293 ARes, C. E. S., see ZWAAN,P. C., 473 Arsenopyrite...investigated mineral specimens, 131 EAKIN, P., see PARNELL,J., thoriumm-bitumen mineralization, 111 Electronic...Roughton Gill, scotlandite, 653; DEVON, Merrivale Quarry, phurcalite, 583; NORTHPENNINES,cinnabar, 388 Equivalent...corundum, Sri Lanka, 539; lithium pegmatites, SE Ireland, 271 Fluorine in minerals by electron microprobe
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GEOLOGY AND IRELAND : vVith Physical geography and its geological foundations . by w. E. NEVILL....subjects. Because of the importance of agriculture in Ireland, a con1plete chapter is devoted to the country's...possible from the rocks and physical landscape of Ireland ; in fact a maximum usage is made of features of...before the date shown above LANCASHIRE COUNTY LIBRARY COUNTY HALL, PRESTON Digitized by the Internet...org/details/geologyireland0000wene GEOLOGY AND IRELAND GEOLOGY AND IRELAND PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY AND ITS GEOLOGICAL
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: Click here Fluid inclusions in Irish granite quartz: monitors of uids trapped in the onshore Irish...Feely (2010). Fluid inclusions in Irish granite quartz: monitors of uids trapped in the onshore Irish...53–66, 2010 Fluid inclusions in Irish granite quartz: monitors of fluids trapped in the onshore Irish...Ocean Sciences, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland Email: martin.feely@nuigalway.ie 2 Present...ca ABSTRACT: Fluid inclusion studies of granite quartz provide an opportunity to study fluid flow associated
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NEWS and EVENTS Mick Wolfe YEARS 1N MINERALS: IRELAND David Green• Stephen Moreton 37 PYRITE FROM...societies, and topographic mineralogy in Britain and Ireland. We describe and illu trate (in four separate articles)...first two articles, "' hich describe Scotland and Ireland, appear here in issue 21, while the remainder will...many exciting new discoveries, particularly in Ireland and Scotland, where even now large tracts of land...gone with the demise of hard-rock mining in the county, and the practice of exchange with museums, which
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Carracedo & Simon Day 5. The north of Ireland Paul Lyle 6. Leinster Chris Stillman & George SeYastopulo...& Jean-Claude Tanguy Minerals of Britain and Ireland A. G. Tindle The Open University T: 'XI 'Jo ~6................................... 428 8: babel quartz to bytownite .............................. 66...stage of MB! that focusing only on Britain and Ireland might be too restrictive, and that what was really...personally discovered new species to Britain and Ireland, and colleagues permitted me to record their unpublished
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A CLAY MINERALOGY OF IRELAND Author(s): DAVID H. DOFF Source: Irish Journal of Earth Sciences, Vol. 27...reviews the occurrence and type of clay minerals in Ireland. Working back through time, the occurrences include:...interested in clay materials and use hardly a parish in Ireland that did not at one time or them for a variety...manufacture of poor quality with relevance to Ireland is slim indeed. Consequently, ceramic pots dating...et al. (1995). They showed that the Britain and Ireland. I have also drawn on additional mineralogy of
Report (chapter)
Basins and petroleum geology in the north of Ireland JOHN PARNELL, BRYAN MONSON & JIM BUCKMAN Department...basins in the north of Ireland The pre-Devonian terranes of the north of Ireland consist, from northwest...transgressed across the entire region. The northeast of Ireland was flooded by Palaeocene basalt lavas, while the...coastal promenade passes a shore and cliff From PARNELL,J. (ed.), 1992, Basins on the Atlantic Seaboard:...University of Birmingham on July 13, 2015 450 J. PARNELL, B. MONSON & J. BUCKMAN /'.,. ~,N,R,M'~, post
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Bridges 6-12 Unusual fluorite from Old Towns Quarry, Newton Aycliffe, Co. Durham Trevor F. Bridges...Yorkshire Brian Young 17-19 PAPERS ‘Cellular’ quartz from Teesdale, Northern Pennines Brian Young and... His article on “The Boltsburn mine, Weardale, County Durham, England” won the award for “best article...massive cuprite at the type locality, New Cliffe Hill Quarry, Stanton-under-Bardon, Leicestershire, first described...Cu2+5Cl2(OH)8(H2O)2, a new mineral from New Cliffe Hill Quarry, Stantonunder-Bardon, Leicestershire, UK. Mineralogical
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fingular phenomenon of gold being found in this county, of the extenfive metalliferous ftrata with which...imprefies the fulleft conviction, that the County of Wicklow muft in the natural progrefs of things attract...empire ; the wonderful beauty and variety of the county, its imme diate vicinity to the metropolis, the...tranquillity feems com pletely reftored in the county of Wicklow, and the moft perfect protection afforded...266 1 8. Price of Timber and State of it in the County, 267 Interefling Calculations on thisfubjeft, 269
Report (chapter)
the north Irish Sea-North Channel region JOHN PARNELL School o f Geosciences, Queen's University, Belfast...University (Parnell 1992a,b, 1995a,b; McCaffrey & McCann 1992; Anderson et al. 1995; Fitzsimons & Parnell 1995...sequences are thin where preserved in Northern Ireland and in places missing altogether due to pre-Tertiary...dominated by the thick basaltic lavas in Northern Ireland and a dyke swarm across the entire region. There...University of Pennsylvania on July 26, 2015 214 J. PARNELL Midland Valley ~ S SS .~ S S TROUGH Southern
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246, ISSN 0080 433 9, IR£12.00* THE FLORA OF COUNTY By Evelyn Booth FAUNA CARLOW 1979, pp. viii...Prep Limited, Dublin. Printed in the Republic of Ireland by Mount Salus Press Limited, Dublin. FOREWORD...international dimensions. on Ireland, The importance of the Geological Survey of Ireland in promoting this publication...Tighe’s map of County Kilkenny, published in one of the most successful of the Society’s County surveys in...of the Geological Survey in the 1843-5 period. Ireland had had an official Survey for more than a decade
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Triassic sandstones in the basins of Northern Ireland—Implications for NW European Triassic palaeodrainage...Research Team (SORT), National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland 2 Irish Centre for Research in Applied...Dublin 4, Ireland 3 School of Earth Sciences, University College Dublin, Belfield Dublin 4, Ireland 4 Palaeodrainage...offshore Britain and Ireland are well established. Basins such as those across Northern Ireland are not as well...sandstones in the Slyne Basin offshore western Ireland and in basins west of Shetland have indicated that
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Monson and J. Parnell Department of Geology, Queen's University, Belfast BT7 INN, Northern Ireland, UK (Received...accepted March 12, 1990) ABSTRACT Monson, B. and Parnell, J., 1992. Metal-organic relationships from the...relationships have been observed in the Carboniferous of Ireland. They include metal enrichments within black shales...Visran). 1. Introduction The Carboniferous rocks of Ireland (Fig. 1 ) contain numerous ore deposits and other... Northern Ireland, UK. organic materials from one particular region in northwest Ireland. 2. Organic-metal
Report (chapter)
onshore at Ballymastocker, Donegal in northwest Ireland. Massive sandstones and trough cross-bedded sandstones...include quartzite, marble, pelite, schist, vein quartz and metadolerite, are derived from the local Dalradian...Platform region. Following Geological Survey of Ireland mapping between 1883 and 1887, Hull et al. (1891)...igneous activity at Ballymastocker. Inclusions within quartz grains indicated only local derivation from both...' ~ '----/-----~--.-S----~-~;: _,", ,..~,f' #Leinster- L.ilkeSman Terrane oO~176 ( ~ i ~ ~ (\ '! / ~
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Southern Uplands-Down-Longford Terrane, Britain and Ireland: A review S. Rice, S.J. Cuthbert, A. Hursthouse...Southern Uplands-Down-Longford Terrane, Britain and Ireland: A review, Ore Geology Reviews (2018), doi: https://doi...Southern Uplands-Down-Longford Terrane, Britain and Ireland: A review. Rice, S.a*, Cuthbert, S.J.a and Hursthouse... including a 45 km-long gold trend in central Ireland that includes the proven deposit at Clontibret...lattice constituent of arsenopyrite and pyrite within quartz-carbonate veins and disseminated within phyllic
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southwest Scotland and Northern Ireland MARTIN BARON* and JOHN PARNELL Department of Geology and Petroleum...basement rocks of southwest Scotland and Northern Ireland host a number of base-metal sulphide-bearing vein...basement rocks of southwest Scotland and Northern Ireland host a number of base-metal sulphide-bearing vein...important base-metal sulphide deposits in central Ireland, formed in response to regional extension resulting...basement rocks of southwest Scotland and Northern Ireland. These results document the pressures, temperatures
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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...intraorogenic grabens. During the Lower Devonian, the Leinster and Galway Granites and numerous other granitic...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
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from gold-bearing deposits, Britain and Ireland John Parnell a , Sam Spinksb and Nigel Blameyc a ...samples from goldbearing deposits in Britain and Ireland are anomalously rich in methane. Chalcopyrite samples...This was tested using deposits from Britain and Ireland (Figure 1) by assessing if the compositions of...Neoproterozoic of Scotland and Northern Ireland, the Munster Basin of southwest Ireland, and widely distributed deposits...Chalcopyrite was used because it occurs in CONTACT John Parnell J.Parnell@abdn.ac.uk KEYWORDS Chalcopyrite;
 
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