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Tourmaline from
Ross Island, Lough Leane, Killarney, Kerry County, Munster, Ireland


Locality type:Island
Classification
Species:'Tourmaline' (not an IMA approved species)
Formula:AD3G6 (T6O18)(BO3)3X3Z
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Tourmaline data
Locality Data:Click here to view Ross Island, Lough Leane, Killarney, Kerry County, Munster, Ireland
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:629525
Long-form Identifier:1:3:629525:7
GUID (UUID V4):13e5c991-3f51-4f27-9201-38b7d68993da
References
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
thrusting north of the Variscan Front, Ross Island, southwest Ireland PAUL A. M. NEX1*, JUDITH A. KINNAIRD2y...thrusts occur on Ross Island: the Head of Ross Thrust and the more southerly Ross Island Thrust. These lie...lie to the north of the Killarneyā€“Mallow Fault (KMF), the boundary frequently interpreted as the Variscan...Variscan Front. The Ross Island Thrust, exposed in outcrop and in seven borehole cores, has emplaced dark...Chadianā€“Holkerian age. These lithologies at Ross Island exhibit a continuum of deformation at both the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
in Cu-polymetallic and Znā€“Pb mineralisation in Ireland: constraints from lead isotopes Received: 10 January...Abstract Devonian red bed-hosted deposits in SW Ireland occur either as low-grade stratiform disseminations...as the Carboniferous Znā€“Pb deposits of Central Ireland. It is suggested that the lead in both areas has...implications for the timing of the Variscan orogeny in SW Ireland. Because chalcopyriteā€“tennantite occurs along pressure...emplacement of the mineralised tectonic Ross Island sheet, west of Killarney, must post-date 280 Ma. The diļ¬€erence
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ZINC-LEAD-COPPER CRow DESIGN Julie Ballard ISLAND, Co. ORES AT KERRY Rob beer 35 The views and opinions...UK Journal of Mines & Minerals No. 24 -4- The Island of Arran is popular with geological field parties... some of the largest and finest known from the island. A second pocket contained individual crystals...the Semingtonbypass,Wiltshire. Wiltshire is not a county generally know for its minerals. A few large gypsum...Roy Starkey,photo DavidGreen. Across the sea in Ireland, quartz once again makes an appearance this time
Book
GEOLOGY This book describes the island of Ireland as a physical whole. Ireland has a peculiar significance...Palaeozoic, north-west Ireland belonged with the New World and the remainder of the island with torn old Europe...the meaning behind the beautiful scenery of this island, which is poised on the edge of Europe and spectacular...Telephone: 01242 714600 A GEOLOGY OF IRELAND Gweedore, County Donegal in September, looking towards...Photograph by M. C. F. Proctor A GEOLOGY OF IRELAND Edited by C. H. HOLLAND COLLEGE OF ST. PAUL AMD
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LIBRARY j s i~sc_::. HISTORICAL GEOLOGY OF' IRELAND Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2023 with...org/details/historicalgeolog0000jkch HISTORICAL GEOLOGY OF IRELAND BY J. K. CHARLESWORTH C. B.E., D .Sc., PH.D....been attempted for Ireland since Cole and Hallissy's Handbook of the Geology of Ireland of 1924: the author's...author's Geology of Ireland: An Introduction ( r 953) had in mind the elementary student or the general...improve our knowledge of the various systems in Ireland. Many problems, however, await their final solution
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LOCALITIES IN THE United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. BY K TOWNSHEND M. HALL, F.G.S. LONDON : EDWARD...of some of the principal localities in the same county, was given by Messrs . Greg and Lettsom in their...locality by some independent authority, such as maps, county directories, local guide books, &c. The geological...Manual of the Mineralogy of Great Britain and Ireland, by ROBERT P. GREG, F.G.S., and WILLIAM G. LETTSOM...of Mineral Substances hitherto dis covered in Ireland, by Sir CHARLES L. GIESECKE, F.G.S. 1832. A Catalogue
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Juan Carlos 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...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...producers of b th tin and copp Ā·r. and. more recently. Ireland became a major player in world zinc produ.:tion
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MANUAL w OF THE MINERALOGY OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND. BY ROBERT PHILIPS GREG, F.G.S. , AND WILLIAM...work to place the Mineralogy of Great Britain and Ireland on that footing to which scientifically and economically...M Playok, in topaz from the Mourne Mountains, Ireland ), almost every known British form being in fact...Portlock's Geological Report and Survey of the N.E. of Ireland ( 1843 ). Catalogue of the British Museum . Sale...& c. Genus 4. SILICATES WITH FlroRIDES . IIL Tourmaline. 112. Datholite. 113. Arinite. ORDER XHI. Alumina
Journal (volume)
Nickeliferous Magnetic Pyrites at Tiernakill,near Maum, county of Galway. By the Rev. Samuel Haughton, F. R. S... . On two associated Minerals from Ross Hill, near Maum , county of Galway. By James Apjohn, M. D., Professor...the Drift Gravel of Ireland, On the Wolfhill and Modubeagh Coal-fields, Queen's County. By George M'Dowell...District extending from Dungarvan to Annestown, county of Waterford. By W. B. Brownrigg, S.T. C.D., and...Arrangement of the simple Minerals hitherto found in Ireland. By Aquilla Smith, M. D., M. R. I. A., The Localities
Journal (volume)
Thomas the Geological Relations of the South of Ireland. Weaver, Esq. F.G.S. F.R.S. M.R.I. II. On p...Greenough, Esq. P.G.S.) Brown Clee Hill, in the County of Salop. Wright, Esq., Employed on the Ordnance...North Coast of the Counties of Mayo and Sligo in Ireland. J5y Archdeacon Verschoyle, M^. {Communicated by...Torr Eskert, to the south of Fair Head, in the County By of Antrim. of Dublin XV. On . Richard ...Notice of the Analysis of a Mineral Water from the Island of St. Paul, in lat. 38Ā° 45' S., and long. 77Ā°
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Highlands - Inverness-shire Northern Highlands - Ross & Cromarty Northern Highlands - Sutherland Northern...Shetland Northern Ireland County Antrim County Londonderry County Tyrone County Armagh County Down The Ancient...iv Afon Mawddach, Gwynedd, Wales County Tyrone, Northern Ireland 2 - Acknowledgements Firstly, I would...8 Duke of Sutherland Clay Lake Nugget 1980 County Armagh 28 Ulster Museum The Reunion Nugget A...survey work was still being carried out in Northern Ireland at that time. This led me to start cataloguing
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
gaylussite and hanksite from Borax Lake, San Bernardino County, California: Aru, Jour. Sci., (4),2r 123-135 (1896)'...Christen Christensen(Christensen-Vulkan)of Robert' son Island, West Antarctica. The following is a list of the...aegirine-augite Titaniferous augite Titanomagnetite Topaz Tourmaline Tremolite Tridymite Vermiculite? Vesuvianite...microsanidinite out of the trachyte from Mount Cis, Ross Island. Bri.tish Antorctric Erped. 1907-9. Reph. Sci...on some rocks retrieved from the cache at Depot Island, Antarctic. 16id. Appendix pt. 13,235-237. Coulson
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Mineralight). Mentor is a small town on Lake Erie in Lake County, Ohio. Donated by C. O. Gettings, 2001 Starr Ave...Put-in-Bay, Ohio Put-in-Bay in Ottawa County, Ohio, on South Bass Island in Lake Erie, is a noted summer resort...Utah between Mt. Carmel Jet. and Kanab in Kane County. Creek Sand from West Virginia This is a dark...black magnetite. The locality is Mt. Erebus on Ross Island in McMurdo Sound, Antarctica. Collected on Jan...on the Rio Casas, is in the northern part of the island. Bibijagua Beach is about 10 miles to the northwest
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
consisting of quartz, ortboclase with some albite, tourmaline, muscovite, garnet and beryl. The best and most...little-known island, of I which he describes the topography and geology in some detail. The island is remarkable...affording means of access from one part of the island to another. The author also discusses with particular...localities in Southern Patagonia, from Ross Island, Cockbum Island, Paulet Island, and other localities in the
Catalog/List
Whitesmiths Mine Strontian Machan Quarrv, Wales Milos Island Greece Tearsall Farm Derbvs Waooina Mine Derbvs...D1 0 D10 010 010 Ā£2 Ā£3 Ā£1 Ā£2 Ā£25 Ā£2 Ā£3 Ā£1 Ross Island. Eire Sandbeds, Caldbecks Austria Muci,cross...Greece Bwlchrhenaid M ine, Wales Hemerdon, Devon Ross Island M ine, Eire Viora Mine, Wales Oiuela Mine, Mapimi...Okenite & Prehnite Viluit Xtl type of vesuvianite Tourmaline Chrvsocolla + Chrysocolla pseudomorps Phloqopite...Orthoclase feldsoar Stelle rite Pyrope Garnet Tourmaline Kinoite APOPhvllite Datolite Actinolite Phloqopite
Report (chapter)
Kotick Point and Whisky Bay formations) of James Ross Island, Antarctica, which was deposited in a deep marine...two separate areas on the west coast of James Ross Island. The provenance of the group has been studied...staurolite, garnet, spinel, chloritoid, monazite, tourmaline and zircon in provenance studies. In particular...the lower part of the Gustav Group from the James Ross Basin, Antarctica. Although this region is not a...Peninsula magmatic arc, is best exposed in the James Ross Island area (Fig. 1). These strata were deposited within
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
CockburnIs1and.. Snow Hill Island.. S e y m o u rI s l a n d . . . .. James Ross Island Hope Bay, Louis Philippe...Brucel made an accurate and detailed map of Laurie Island in 1903.A recent map of the South Orkney Islands...survey of the 1 Bruce, W. S., Outline map of Laurie Island Scottish Notional, Antarctic E*ped,ition, Report...SOCIETY OF AMERICA islands, other than Laurie Island, was made by the Discovery11 Expedition in January...Expedition collected rock specimensmainly on Laurie Island, although single landings were made on Saddle and
Book (edition)
colours, as in some specimens of diopside and tourmaline. The diamond also has been found of many colours...crystal is optically negative, as in calcite, tourmaline and wulfenite. If, on the other hand, the optic...ordinary purposes a little instrument termed the tourmaline pincette is used. This consists of two plates...require investigation. So long as the two plates of tourmaline have their principal axes parallel, they transmit...continue, and no change will be observed . Plates of tourmaline, however, are usually of very dark colour, and
Journal (issue)
significant find of gem quality elbaite (lithium tourmaline) was made at the Dunton gem mine, Newry, Maine...the finest examples of New England "watermelon" tourmaline had come from this mine in years gone by, although...rubellite, is truly one of the most significant tourmaline discoveries of all time. The elbaite occurs as...Cross-section (40 mm radius) of "watermelon" tourmaline crystal zoned parallel to the prism. Section...Cross-section (7 em radius) of a "watermelon" tourmaline crystal zoned parallel to the prism. Section
Book
illustrations in colour and black and white gy) COUNTY LIBRARY | anioyn ofthe In 1 titute of Civil...columns of basalt found in New Zealand and Northern Ireland are examples of OPPOSITE Table showing The Surface...the rocks and minerals RIGHT The birth of a new island In November 1963 the crew of a small vessel off...formation of a new island, which was named Surtsey. The volcano is still active and the island is still growing...shell and one in the n shell. RIGHT Crystals of tourmaline These crystals show the three-sided columnar
Book
Introduction Folded Belt and Volcanic Island Archipelago Scotia Island Arc and Palmer Peninsula Marie Byrd..."Ellsworth Land" Volcanic Islands on West Side of the Ross Sea The Shield Area The Trans-antarctic Mountain...Structural Relationship of the Folded Belt and Volcanic Island Archipelago Area to the Shield Area Mineral and...route to the Pole he dise covered the limits of the Ross Ice Shelf and some of the mountains that extend...Victoria Land. Scott, an Englishman based at Ross Island, party just 55 days after Amundsen did but, weak
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CzechosloĀ¬ vakia and Romania; in the Alps of South Island, NewZealand;fromCharters Towers, Queensland, from...localities in Chile, and from the Mohawk mine, Keweenaw County, Michigan; also from Lake Superior, Ontario. Treatment...Localities. Terrestrial iron is found in basalt at Disco Island, West GreenĀ¬ land and in small grains with pyrrhotite...Germany. Awaruite is found in Awarua Bay in South Island, New Zealand, where it is associated with gold...Kalgoorlie, Western Australia and in Calaveras County, California. Treatment. It may be cleaned in dilute
Journal (issue)
rosaline for its pink color. Its site locality is an island off Norway. Thulite has also been found in Austria...off Norway, in 1820 and named after Thule, the Island of Lore and Stories. Pink thulite is a popular...monthly meetings of clubs, including the South Orange County Gem & Mineral Society. Usually, Walt also uses...Oceanview Mine in the Pala region of San Diego County, California. Field trip participants can dig and...and screen through mine dumps for tourmaline, kunzite, aquamarine, quartz, and other precious and semi-precious
Book (edition)
Feldspar Group 8. Subsilicates Chondrodite Tourmaline Andalusite, Fibrolite, Cyanite .^7rT. Topaz...Saussurite Rocks 487 487 1. Garnet, Epidote, and Tourmaline Rocks 487 2. Hornblende, Pyroxene, and Chrysolite...rhombohedron, is wanting. For example, in crystals of tourmaline rhombohedral planes, and sometimes scalenohedral...dissimilarity in the two extremities of a crystal of tourmaline is connected with pyro-electric Three-sided prisms... are common in some rhombohedral species, as tourmaline. 4. Cleavage. Cleavage usually takes place parallel
Journal (issue)
crystalline one, exposing the usual birefringence of tourmaline at their point of m a x i m u m separation. 324...4-fold indices, the data of which are as follows: Tourmaline of S.W. Africa, cut, with "record" 8-shadow effect...existed throughout. T o verify this, the same tourmaline was slightly reƧut in 1974, paying particular...without satellite lines, as is usual for normal tourmaline, situated at o 1-645 e 1-623 + whereas on the...sample worth noting is a " r e c o r d " cut tourmaline weighing over 25 carats, showing a 4-fold effect
 
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