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Wavellite from
Ballybunnion, Kerry County, Munster, Ireland


Classification
Species:Wavellite
Formula:Al3(PO4)2(OH,F)3 · 5H2O
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Shale1 photo of Wavellite associated with Shale at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Wavellite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Ballybunnion, Kerry County, Munster, Ireland
Photo GalleryView Gallery (9 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:195284
Long-form Identifier:1:3:195284:1
GUID (UUID V4):5d84365a-a0b9-4f1d-a042-8f3d997dffbf
Nearest other occurrences of Wavellite
38.6km (24.0 miles) Grouse Lodge Quarry, Ardagh, Limerick County, Munster, Ireland
39.0km (24.2 miles) Fort Lismeenagh (Ballycormick), Shanagolden, Limerick County, Munster, Ireland
41.6km (25.8 miles) Lisgordan, Ardagh, Limerick County, Munster, Ireland
41.9km (26.0 miles) Cahermoyle, Ardagh, Limerick County, Munster, Ireland
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
MAGAZINE, NOTES DECEMBER Chalcomenite from Ballybunnion, Co. Kerry, Eire T H E rare copper selenite, chalcomenite...has been identified on specimens from Ballybunnion, Co. Kerry, Eire, submitted independently to the two...small bay NW of Doon East, c. 1.3 km north of Ballybunnion. In April 1982 this bed was covered by a large...described the occurrence in the shales north of Ballybunnion of disseminated pyrite, chalcopyrite and arsenopyrite...of veins of chalcopyrite. Ainsworth also noted wavellite, melanterite, chalcanthite, and efltorescences
Report (issue)
2.6 cm, from the Nanjingqiao deposit, Pingjiang County, Yueyang, Hunan, China. Boren and King Minerals...near the W.L. Stifle Claim, Georgetown, El Dorado County, California. The individual trapezohedral grossular...the Stifle Memorial claim, Georgetown, El Dorado County, California. Marin Mineral specimen and photo....update, one such surprise is a winning specimen of wavellite from what John calls a “rediscovered lost locality”—and...with the rollicking name of Ballybunnion, in County Kerry, Republic of Ireland. Little spheres composed
Journal (issue)
David I. Green ADVERTISING Peter J. Briscoe WAVELLITE David Green • Tom Cotterell • Ian Jones David...Cornwall and some nice green balls from Ireland, but where else? Wavellite became more and more interesting...locality and on William Wavell, the man after whom wavellite was named. Ron Cleevely had made an extensive...turned out that a lot of people were interested in wavellite. The list of references at the end of the article...than 1000 confirmed species) found in Britain and Ireland. It will include notes on discredited species,
Journal (issue)
D. Freier ------22 ------MICRO MINERALS FROM IRELAND BOARD 0.1. Green G. Ryback • S. JJ/oreto11 S... 10 MICROMINERALS f r o m IRELAND Part 1: The South-West (Munster) George Ryback, 42 Bell Road, Sittingboume...rnicrorninerals unlike. for example, Northern Ireland, with its zeolires in basalts and various crystallized...Collecting of both macro and micro-minerals in Ireland seems, however, to be on the increase, and undoubtedly...articles, we deal with the ancient province of Munster, occupying the south-western part of the country
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
5AB, Northern Ireland AND E I L E E N FARLEY Geological Section, National Museum of Ireland, 7-9 Merrion...occurrences in Ireland more recent than the Manual of the Mineralogy of Great Britain and Ireland of Greg and...known from the British Isles, about 360 occur in Ireland. Forty of these Irish minerals are listed here...exploration of metalliferous deposits in the Republic of Ireland. Indeed, about half the entries in the list below...(1986) Geology and genesis of mineral deposits in Ireland, Irish Association for Economic Geology, Dublin
Book
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
Journal (issue)
wide geographical range throughout Britain and Ireland. Frank Ince provides a comprehensive account of... and Stephen and David report the discovery in County Limerick of rare phosphates new to the British...communication; specimens held in the Leicestershire County Collection), as does the Ordovician granodiorite...access to the Leicester City and Leicestershire County Collections; Trevor Bridges, Roy and Maggie Frankum... and McKinley, RA. (editors), A History of the County of Leicestershire, Vol. 3, pp. 43-47. Published
Journal (issue)
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...Figure 4 A hemispherical honeybrownaggregate of wavellite fromthetypelocality,HighDownsQuarry,Filleigh,Devon
Journal (issue)
deep trench at High Down Quarry, in search of wavellite and variscite. This would be back-filled each...Figure18.Gunheath Pit,a sourceof fineturquoise,wavellite and a varietyof phosphate minerals.PhotoDavidGreen...Neil Hubbard dated the 1st May 1978, Dick noted: IRELAND Tlie buildersare coming011quitequicklywith tl...territory. Eventually, his thoughts turned to Ireland. Dick's first trip appears to have been in 1976...Louth; Achill Island, Co. Mayo; Ballybunion, Co. Kerry; Clontibret Mine, Castleblaney, Co. Monaghan and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
DEVONIAN ROCKS) and the OLD RED SANDSTONE of SOUTH IRELAND and NOREH DEVOn'. By J. BEEr~ JUK~, ESQ., M.A....Upper .Pal~eozoic Rocks of the Southern portion of Ireland. 1. Wcxford. a. Red Sandstones and Conglomerates...Sandstone of North Cork, South Waterford, and South Kerry. 6. The Lower Limestone ShMe of the Youghal and...Conclusions on the Rocks of the South-west of Ireland. Sudden Changes from thick limestone to mechanically...partly to the group called Carboniferous Slate in Ireland, and partly to the 01d Red Sandstone, I propose
Journal (issue)
1994). Ireland 's first selenium mineral, chalcomenite, was found at Ballybunnion, Co. Kerry by commercial...commercial collector Richard Barstow when looking for wavellite to sell (Francis & Ryback, 1987). 16 Russe ll...& Ryback, G. (1987). Chalcomenite from Ballybunnion , Co. Kerry, Eire. Mineralogical Magazine, 51, 751...H. (1991). A blue sodic beryl from southe ast Ireland . Mi nera logical Magazine, 55, 167-172. 17 Russell...from Greenlaws Mine in Weardale, phosphates from County Limerick and South Wales, ferrocolumbite from the
Journal (volume)
Relations of the Sedimentary Rocks of the South of Ireland, Ac 4c. By Richard Griffith, LL. D., F. G. S. London...Planes of the Old Red Sandstone Conglomerate of the County of Waterford. By the Rev. S. Haughton, 16 On the...Limestone, Sandstone, and Granite at Oughterard, County of Galway. By J. Birmingham, Esq., 26 The Drift...Relations of the Cambrian Rocks of Bray (County of Wicklow) and Howth (County of Dublin) ; with Notices of the... found by J. II. Kinahan, Esq., near Loughill, County of Limerick. By A. Gages, ... 73 On the Occurrence
Journal (volume)
Localities of Fossils of the Carboniferous Limestone of Ireland. By John Kelly, Esq., . . . . . . . . . . . . ...Devonian and Carboniferous Rocks of the South 1 of Ireland. By J. Beete Jukes, Esq., and J. W . Salter, Esq...Magnesian Limestone at Tullyconnel,near Artrea, in the County of Tyrone. By Professor William King,Queen's College...Noyer, 97 Researches among the Palæozoic Rocks of Ireland, with a view to determine the Limits of the Old...Lower Carboniferous Beds of the Peninsula of Hook , County of Wexford . By the Rev. Professor Haughton,
Book
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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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
Journal (volume)
Nickeliferous Magnetic Pyrites at Tiernakill,near Maum, county of Galway. By the Rev. Samuel Haughton, F. R. S...associated Minerals from Ross Hill, near Maum , county of Galway. By James Apjohn, M. D., Professor of...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
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including several visits to High Down Quarry for wavellite and variscite, also into East Cornwall and several...and Lettsom's Mineralogy of Great Britain and Ireland for £5. Saturday 11 February 1978 - Cardiff, South...duplicate material and picked out a 5 cm sphere of wavellite from High Down Quarry, Filleigh, to exchange for...Pit. Again, we found some turquoise and some wavellite. With no more to see we left to drive down to...Hensbarrow Pit. We went over to the area where the wavellite came from and dug into the vein. We collected
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Manual of the Mineralogy of Great Britain and Ireland, by R. P. Greg and W. G. Lettsom, 1858. by... Dreelite. Calc Spar, or Calcite. Kunkur. Wavellite. Turquois. Fluor Spar. par. Blue Jo!>hu. Fergusonite...and Carlisle, in Cumberland and in Monaghan CO., Ireland. Alabaster is soluble in ; 400 to 600 parts of...Edinburgh, in greenshire — In very perfect, white Ireland. translucent twin-crystals at Ross, and in the...occurs in sand at Kensington, near London; in Ireland on the coast at Howth, near Dublin at Craignashoke
 
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