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Wavellite from
Laharran Quarry, Minane Bridge, Tracton, Cork County, Munster, Ireland


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Wavellite
Formula:Al3(PO4)2(OH,F)3 · 5H2O
Comments:Spheres of wavellite are extremely rare but can be very fine when they do occur. Rosettes on fracture surfaces are common, but confined to one narrow horizon.
Habit:Radiating crystals and perfect spheres up to 1.6cm
Colour:White, blue/green, pink
Quality for species:Excellent - world class for species or very significant. (!!)
Abundance at site:Common
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Quartz2 photos of Wavellite associated with Quartz at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Wavellite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Laharran Quarry, Minane Bridge, Tracton, Cork County, Munster, Ireland
Photo GalleryView Gallery (16 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:11719
Long-form Identifier:1:3:11719:7
GUID (UUID V4):ea67091a-4f75-489c-b2cd-a017d5c3cb70
Nearest other occurrences of Wavellite
0.5km (0.3 miles) Spring Hill, Tracton, Cork County, Munster, Ireland
12.1km (7.5 miles) Kinsale, Cork County, Munster, Ireland
80.8km (50.2 miles) Clonmel, Waterford County, Munster, Ireland
95.3km (59.2 miles) Cahermoyle, Ardagh, Limerick County, Munster, Ireland
96.4km (59.9 miles) Lisgordan, Ardagh, Limerick County, Munster, Ireland
98.4km (61.1 miles) Grouse Lodge Quarry, Ardagh, Limerick County, Munster, Ireland
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Catalog/List
matrix. 55x25x20mm. £65. 18) EPISTil.BITE. EkJera Quarry, Nasik, Marharashtra, India. A shallow c.�\�ty...max £40. 33) PECTOLITE and PREBNITE. Porthoustock Quarry, St Keveme, Cornwall. Matrix with a band of yellowish...70x45x25mm. £65. 49) WAVELLITE. Laharran Quarry, Minane Bridge, Co Cork, Ireland. A 10-15mm crust of intergrown...matrix. 30x30x20nun max. £22. 50) WOLLASTONITE. BR Quarry, Meldon, Devon. Good silky off white radiating
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
at 07:22 29 December 2014 Wavellite Mauldin Mountain, Montgomery County, Arkansas P hosphate minerals...many collectors’ first phosphate specimen was a wavellite from one of the traditional Arkansas localities...recently been the source of some of the finest wavellite ever found, and, consequently, one Dr. Robert...selected as this issue’s Connoisseur’s Choice. Wavellite is an often-colorful mineral, ranging from white...hardness is 3.5–4, and its measured density is 2.36. Wavellite crystallizes in the orthorhombic system (2/m2/m2/m)
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and advertising. ARSENTSUMEBITE FROM DOLYHIR QUARRY Neil Hubbard • David Green • Tom Cotterell 9 ...David I. Green ADVERTISING Peter J. Briscoe WAVELLITE David Green • Tom Cotterell • Ian Jones David...Cox • Ron Cleevely 31 PARALSTONITE FROM DOLYI-IIR QUARRY Tom Cotterell CIRCULATION, SALES & FINANCE Jean...FROM CARROCK MINE Mike Rumsey 53 NEW CLIFFE HILL QUARRY Trevor Bridges 55 ROCKBOTTOM PUBLICATIONS LTD...became. The type locality is, of course, High Down Quarry in Devon, and wasn't it named after a local collector
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index. This is organised hierarchically by country, county or state, then site name. To avoid the confusion...century boundary changes in the British Isles, the county boundaries defined by the Local Governmant Act...referred to as Glamorgan. The new counties and county boroughs brought in by the Lieutenancies Act of...V. (1996) The minerals of Cornwall Countybridge quarry, Goonhilly downs, the Lizard 17:25-28 INGRAM, S...from Ardownie quarry 14:17-20 __ TODD, J.G. & ANDERSON, D. (1992) Pyrite from Goat Quarry 11:8-10 IXER
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advertising. JUDKINS QUARRY F. Ince· R.E. Starkey· J. Wooldridge ------- 14 ------MILLTOWN QUARRY S.A. Rusi -------...D. Freier ------22 ------MICRO MINERALS FROM IRELAND BOARD 0.1. Green G. Ryback • S. JJ/oreto11 S...BOC J. & P. Pearce ------- 48 ------- HENDRE QUARRY R.E. Starkey· N. Hubbard· M.P. Bayley 0952-2409...-------------of------------- JUDKINS iv a r w i QUARRY C k s h i r e FrankInce, 78 Leconfield Road,...extraordinaryfom1s of lead and coppersulphides. UDKINS Quarry, 't'..: uneaton, Warwickshire (SP 346 930) (Figures
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Locality. including name of mine or quarry, nearest town and county, and six figure National Grid Reference...Loanhead quarry TallskerBay Whyte'a Cleuch Loanhead quarry Port Glasgow Loanheadquarry Loanhelld quarry Loanhead...Loanhead quarry Benalltmlne BMS NATIONAL REFERENCE COUECTION Ecton.Staffs. Ecton.Staffs. Scordale,Cumbria...Trinafour.ScoU. Lochan-na-Lalrigh Loanhead quarry Loanhead quarry Hopeful vein Hopeful vein Ralk's vein Fethaland...averockBraes Meadowfootslag Hagdalequarry Hagdale quarry Ardalanlsh Bay Ecton Hill.staffs Tavistock,Devon
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who is responsible for the parts on Wales and Ireland; and to John Adams, Peter Shepherd, Joan Lawson...BIRD'S EYE VIEW 2 5 1 THE SOUTH WEST 2 WALES 3 IRELAND 4 NORTHERN ENGLAND 6 8 10 5 FROM TWEED TO THAMES...widespread in Britain, they are found elsewhere in Ireland, and also, with copper, in the Isle of Man). Copper...mines predominate in the south western tip of Ireland, while some iron occurs to the north. Apart from...Cornwall, North Ireland and many parts of Scotland are best known for these. A granite quarry at Shap, West­
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lcdlntquo was lo w.alt ne·or the rnce until lho quarry shovel had a bucket full and begoo revar-Jlngi...'pigs eggs' and amethyst at Steetley's Bodelva quarry which is now the home of the Eden Project and trips...the Prince of Wales mine, anglesite from Machan quarry, characteristically-faced calcite and baryte from...specimens, including a covetable Cavansite from Wagholi Quarry, India: the specimen comprised about 7 balls of...variety Aquamarine from the Mourne Mountains, Ireland. The crystal was a magnificent deep blue, about
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high­ temperature sulphide veins at Hingston Downs quarry, near Calstock. Boch species are exceptionally...largest known. Hingston Downs quarry has also recently produced a few fine wavellite specimens, displaying brilliant...8 mm on cellular iron-stained quartz. Greystone quarry in Lezant has been relatively quiet for the past...minerals. Recently some of the boulders on the quarry floor have been broken co reveal small perfect...Heath, is eagerly anticipated by collectors. Croft quarry, in Leicestershire is well known for fine analcime
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Mine, Wetgrooves Mine, Esgair Hir Mine, Milltown Quarry. Waterbank Mine, Ystrad Einion Mine. His most recent...specimens collected in the early 1980s at Milltown Quarry UKJoumal of Mines & Minerlls No. 31 -5- FOREWORD...digging a deep trench at High Down Quarry, in search of wavellite and variscite. This would be back-filled...Figure18.Gunheath Pit,a sourceof fineturquoise,wavellite and a varietyof phosphate minerals.PhotoDavidGreen...vuglt... [Alan Brewer was with Dick at Bullycleaves Quarry near Buckfastleigh, Devon, on this occasion. Dick
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collection of importance, but also that Derbyshire County Council might have to raise significant funding...to import, and this and Connemara marble from Ireland became the material for leaves. Additionally, creamy...Journal of Mines & Minerals No. 27 -4- With County Council agreement, the challenge was on to raise...has been acquired with support from Derbyshire County Council; the MLNVictoria and Albert Purchase Grant...This collection has rightly been returned to the county from where it originally came, and now confirms
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Moore Phosphate Minerals from Lime Ridge, Snyder County, Pennsylvania....................................illustrated in his 1972 article on the Fairfax quarry in the Mineralogical Record, and on page 255 of...Mineralogical Record: “Quartz and pyrite from King County, Washington.” Because John had a full-time job...collecting spots was the famous Auglaize quarry in Paulding County, Ohio. He kept meticulous records for...large quarry hundreds of specimens were found and how their habits varied. His report on the quarry, coauthored
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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 ·r. and. more recently. Ireland became a major player in world zinc produ.:tion
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MineralogicalRecord.com I IIMORIITE-(Y) EUROPE FRANCE Trimouns quarry, Luzenac, Ariege. Operated for talc since the beginning...beginning of the 20th century, the Trimouns quarry became well known to collectors around 1990 for the...long (Marty, 2004 ). AFRICA widely in Litchfield County, where good crystals were taken from quartz veins...region (Brunet, I 977b ). NEW YORK Amity, Orange County. At many isolated collected sites between the towns...Litchfield County. Ilmenite masses and crystals from somewhere near Washington, Litchfield County, were described
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with brilliant-cut diamonds C-shaped tourbillon bridge Prong setting 2.9-carat diamond Knot ring |...their thoughts go to a jewelers shop in Dublin, Ireland. Yet this is precisely where taaffeite was discovered...Fractured surface Cumbrian crystals | Rough | The county of Cumbria, in northern England, has produced cerussite...flaws Amblygonite coating Angles catch light Wavellite body Amblygonite rough | Rough | The transparency...reflections from its uneven surface. Amblygonite with wavellite | Rough | In this example, the raw amblygonite
 
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