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Silver from
Galmoy Mine, Johnstown, Kilkenny County, Leinster, Ireland


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Silver
Formula:Ag
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Silver data
Locality Data:Click here to view Galmoy Mine, Johnstown, Kilkenny County, Leinster, Ireland
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:953921
Long-form Identifier:1:3:953921:1
GUID (UUID V4):e7fd8603-2fae-4eac-b8d2-e17e4d3b3a80
Nearest other occurrences of Silver
45.1km (28.0 miles) Mogul Mine (Garryard Mine; International Mogul Mines), Silvermines District, Tipperary County, Munster, Ireland
50.7km (31.5 miles) Gortdrum Mine, Monard, Tipperary County, Munster, Ireland
61.3km (38.1 miles) Denison deposit, Aherlow, Limerick County, Munster, Ireland
65.7km (40.8 miles) Tynagh Mine, Killimor, Galway County, Connacht, Ireland
86.2km (53.6 miles) North Hero lode, Glendasan, Wicklow County, Leinster, Ireland
92.3km (57.4 miles) Kilmacoo Mine (East Cronebane Mine), Avoca, Wicklow County, Leinster, Ireland
93.9km (58.4 miles) Cronebane Mine, Avoca, Wicklow County, Leinster, Ireland
References
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i t a s . o r g . u k / e s 2 k IN THIS ISSUE Kilkenny Mining An Irish Tsunami Schools Items Flint &...a travel time to S W Britain and possibly S W Ireland of 4 to 5 hours. It may never happen but on the...feely@nuigalway.ie - for Leinster Matthew Parkes, Geological Survey of Ireland, Beggars Bush, DUBLIN 4...(Northern Ireland); The Geological Survey of Ireland; The Geological Survey of Northern Ireland, The British...Survey; The National Museums & Galleries of Northern Ireland; The Irish Salt Mining & Exploration Company; The
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Isotopic Composition of Sulfides at the Lisheen Mine J. J. WILKINSON,† S. L. EYRE,* Department of Earth...tennantite, nickel- and cobalt-bearing minerals. Silver occurs in solid solution in tennantite, galena...Introduction THE LISHEEN DEPOSIT, situated in County Tipperary, Ireland (Fig. 1), is the most recent of six carbonate-hosted...the southern Midlands (Fig. 1) that include the Galmoy deposit (Doyle et al., 1992), 10 km to the northeast...northeast. Lisheen, together with the deposits of Galmoy, Navan, Tynagh, and Silvermines, represents the
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Carbonate-Hosted Lisheen Zn-Pb-Ag Deposit, County Tipperary, Ireland M. W. HITZMAN,† Department of Geology...Zn-Pb-Ag deposit, located in County Tipperary in southeast-central Ireland, consists of a group of strata-bound...Introduction THE Lower Carboniferous carbonate rocks of Ireland contain one of the world’s major base metal provinces...the Ivernia West-Chevron Mineral Corporation of Ireland Joint Venture, is the second largest Irish base...and the most significant base metal discovery in Ireland since the giant Navan deposit was discovered in
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Table 3. Introduction The lower Carboniferous of Ireland is host to a large number of base metal deposits...Moyvoughly NewtownCashel Lisheen Silvermines Tynagh Galmoy Magcobar Ballinalack Rickardstown Courtbrown Garrycam...the Waulsortian (Lisheen, Silvermines, Tynagh, Galmoy) is all intimately associated with faulting and...cavities in the Waulsortian (Fig. 4b). At Lisheen, Galmoy and Silvermines, breccias are grossly concordant...is widespread throughout the southern half of Ireland as the Cork Red Marble (Shearley 1989) and equivalent
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upwelling of 548 Fig. 1 Simplified geological map of Ireland, showing location of those Mississippian carbonatehosted...this study (adapted from hand out map Minerals Ireland Exploration & Mining Division). The approximate...(2014) 49:547–553 Geology of Ireland Navan Tynagh Silver mines Galmoy Lisheen Limerick Basin Iapetus...fluids in sulphides from the main Pb-Zn mines in Ireland. All contain a small but genetically significant...Irish-type deposits: Navan, Silvermines, Lisheen, Galmoy and Tynagh. The samples selected are from areas
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MICROMINERALS from IRELAND part III GRyback • S Моreноп 4 2 GOLD RUSHES of IRELAND S Мoretoп 45 RO...Treolar and the High Raise vein, in the Nentsberry mine at Alston, Cumbria in January 1931, will depend...Manual of the mineralogy of Great Britain and Ireland John van Voorst, London. (Facsimile reprint, w...Italy; the mottled green marble of Connemara, Ireland; and the pinkish, green-spotted marble from Tiree...well have been in the lower levels of some lead mine, now abandoned. Further information was obviously
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lion's share of that increase would come form new mine projects, notably the Voisey Bay discovery, of which...satisfactory levels. Subsequently, the incorporation of new mine production capacity could depress that price around...decade the startup will be required every year of a mine equivalent to the original Escondida project (320...completely harmless to the environment Phihppines copper mine to reopen: Atlas expansion projects designed to...copper mine in central Cebu province. Over the next 90 days, a due diligence study of the mine will be
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great compliment you have extended to me. The SEG Silver Medal for 1999 Citation of Murray W. Hitzman MARCO...Murray Hitzman for the 1999 SEG Silver Medal. Murray receives the Silver Medal for his outstanding contributions...geology on a very broad front: in ore finding, in mine development, in research, in policy planning, and...basins. This was a preview of what was to come in Ireland 10 years later. On finishing his Ph.D. at Stanford...company to explore in Europe. Murray arrived in Ireland in 1984 as manager of European exploration. He
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University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin, Ireland Abstract The world-class Irish Zn-Pb(-Ag) deposits...subeconomic Zn-Pb deposits including Navan, Lisheen, Galmoy, Tynagh, and Silvermines, containing >20 million...geochemical signatures of layered sphalerite at Galmoy and Navan, the fundamental trigger for rapid sphalerite... lin e Rathdowney trend Rapla K ilm as tu Galmoy ??? ??? Silvermines Lisheen ne cli on let...showing the location of the Lisheen, Silvermines, and Galmoy Zn-Pb mines and the Rapla Zn-Pb prospect. The inset
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great compliment you have extended to me. The SEG Silver Medal for 1999 Citation of Murray W. Hitzman MARCO...Murray Hitzman for the 1999 SEG Silver Medal. Murray receives the Silver Medal for his outstanding contributions...geology on a very broad front: in ore finding, in mine development, in research, in policy planning, and...basins. This was a preview of what was to come in Ireland 10 years later. On finishing his Ph.D. at Stanford...company to explore in Europe. Murray arrived in Ireland in 1984 as manager of European exploration. He
Report (chapter)
of the Lisheen Zn-Pb-Ag deposit, Co. Tipperary, Ireland E. S H E A R L E Y , P. R E D M O N D , M. K...Parkview House, Beech Hill, Clonskeagh, Dublin 4, Ireland Abstract: The Lisheen deposit is a stratabound...rocks extending from Abbeyleix in County Laois to Thurles in County Tipperary (Figs 1 and 2). Lisheen...Rathdowney Trend. It lies 8 k m southwest of the Galmoy deposit, which was discovered in L: I ° / /...Kilometres 0 Towns Fig. 1. The Rathdowney Trend, Ireland. ABL, Argillaceous Bioclastic Limestone. From
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EARTH SCIENCE Magazine of the ES2k Group Ireland In this Issue: Teaching Mineral Resources Co Roscommon...2000 – raising awareness of Earth science across Ireland Chairperson: Matthew Parkes; Secretary: Catherine...Ian Enlander and Enda Gallagher. Earth Science Ireland is published by Earth Science 2000, Belfast and...efficiently on behalf of ES2k and Earth science in Ireland. The reins are being picked up by Matthew Parkes...Parkes, who works for the National Museum of Ireland in Dublin, and Catherine Adamson of Queens University
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intervals that show the banded sulfide zones to be silver poor (<30 ppm) compared with massive sulfide (King...deposits at Lisheen (Hitzman et al., 2002) and Galmoy (Doyle et al., 1992; Doyle and Bowden, 1995) are...A.A., 1995, Field guide to the Galmoy zinc-lead deposits, Co. Kilkenny: Society of Economic Geology Guidebook...V., and Stanley, G.A., 1992, The geology of the Galmoy deposits, in Bowden, A., Earls, G., O’Connor, P...stratiform zinc-lead-barite mineralization at the Meggen mine, Federal Republic of Germany: Unpublished Ph.D.
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Stratiform Zn-Pb-Ag Massive Sulfide Deposits in Ireland through Numerical Modeling of Coupled Deformation...data from stratiform massive sulfide deposits in Ireland. The advantage † Corresponding author: e-mail,...depocenter, the South Munster basin in southern Ireland (SMB, Fig. 1; Hitzman and Large, 1986). The platform...southern Ireland, showing locations of major PbZn-Ag deposits. B = Ballinalack, G = Galmoy, L = Lisheen...Lisheen, LD = LongfordDown massif, LM = Leinster massif, N = Navan, S = Silvermines, SMB = South Munster
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groundwater resource exploitation in southwest Ireland CONNOLLY, P. T. & COSGROVE, J. W. Prediction of...flow in the Lower Palaeozoic basement rocks of Ireland: implications for the genesis of Irish-type Zn-Pb...G. D. Carboniferous basin evolution of central Ireland - simulation of structural controls on mineralization... base metal deposits in the Rathdowney Trend, Ireland O'REILLY, B. M., READMAN, P. W. & MURPHY, T. Gravity...in the field at Annagh Head, Belmullet, County Mayo, Ireland. He is believed to have been washed from
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in Cu-polymetallic and Zn–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 Zn–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 chalcopyrite–tennantite occurs along pressure...Cu-polymetallic deposits of Ireland, and the penecontemporaneous Zn–Pb deposits of Central Ireland may be because
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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...aragonite is commonly found in caves and on the walls of mine levels. A considerable amount of research has been...many exciting new discoveries, particularly in Ireland and Scotland, where even now large tracts of land
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immediately on the draftCo,cli,ct,ed o,a page 11 1 Galmoy mine construction starts on schedule lead & Zinc...Construction and development of the GaJmoy lead-zinc mine in Ireland began on schedule on May 29, owners Arcon International...levels of 6.50,000mt/year' life expectancy of the Galmoy mine is around 10 years. However, Arcon has begun...begun a new exploration program in the Galmoy area and is currently drilling in a number of locations. Only...Only 31 of the company's license area in the Galmoy district has been explored to date. - - - - I
Report (chapter)
Dinantian of the Dublin Basin and Shannon Trough, Ireland P. S T R O G E N 1, I. D. S O M E R V I L L E 1...University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland 2Institute of Biology and Geology, University o...two of a series of basins of Dinantian age in Ireland which are connected by shallow shelf areas (Fig... The Irish Dinantian is host to many zinc-lead-silver-barytes deposits of enormous economic importance...mines just coming on-stream such as Lisheen and Galmoy (for details see Johnston et al. this volume).
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2015 Carboniferous basin evolution o f central Ireland - simulation of structural controls on mineralization...Carboniferous-hosted, hydrothermal, Zn-Pb deposits of central Ireland, including temperatures, geochemistries and fluid...Carboniferous restoration of basin development in central Ireland has been created. The structural style is one of...mineralization are widely distributed across central Ireland (Fig. 1). The deposits are typically stratabound...1999. Carboniferous basin evolution of central Ireland - simulation of structural controls on mineralization
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alteration of carbonates: a case study from the Galmoy deposit, Ireland H. L. Crowther, J. J. Wilkinson, T. Jeffries...G. Balassone, C. Allen and F. Moore Spectacular silver segregation on the surface of sulphides E. L. Hobson...review of regional geochemical surveys in Northern Ireland with implications for the future Miller O’Prey
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5–6, 2009 Vol. 282, No. 1–4, 2009 The role of silver on the stabilization of the incommensurately modulated...and Thomas Monecke Seamount characteristics and mine-site model applied to explorationand mining-lease-block...Vennemann A geochemical study of the Sweet Home Mine, Colorado mineral belt, USA: hydrothermal fluid...textures: a case study of sphalerite from the Galmoy ore body, Ireland—Craig D. Barrie, Adrian J. Boyce, Alan
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EARTH SCIENCE Magazine of the ES2k Group Ireland In this Issue: Offshore Gas Life at Uni Wild Geese...2000 – raising awareness of Earth science across Ireland Chairperson: Matthew Parkes; Secretary: Catherine...Ian Enlander and Enda Gallagher. Earth Science Ireland is published by Earth Science 2000, Belfast and...feely@nuigalway.ie - for Leinster Matthew Parkes, National Museum of Ireland, Merrion Street, Dublin 2...Northern Ireland Environment Agency; The Heritage Council; The Geological Survey of Northern Ireland; The
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involves veining and hydrofracturing. At Rogerley Mine, centimetric Simplified geological map of the Alston...showing localities studied: 1. Tynebottom Mine; 2. Smallcleugh Mine; 3. Wellheads Hush; 4. West Rigg open-cut;...open-cut; 5. Eastgate Cement Works quarry; 6. Rogerley Mine; 7. Scordale (Hilton and Merton Mines) B130 Applied...limestone. Brecciation is also seen at Tynebottom Mine. Here, angular, dark, fine-grained, silicified limestone...major factor, (e.g. the Fe deposits and Smallcleugh Mine); those where both metasomatism and open-space-filling
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zinc deposits, the Polish Kupferschiefer copper-silver deposits, the Iberian pyrite belt, Fennoscandian...exploration information. The section devoted to Ireland contains an excellent synthesis of the modern views...South West Extension of Navan (Ashton et al.), Galmoy (Lowther et al.), Lisheen (Fusciardi et al.), as
 
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