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


Locality type:Island
Classification
Species:Copper
Formula:Cu
Habit:spike-like sprigs
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Copper data
Locality Data:Click here to view Ross Island, Lough Leane, Killarney, Kerry County, Munster, Ireland
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:629494
Long-form Identifier:1:3:629494:6
GUID (UUID V4):243c45c5-c865-4aec-a95f-d1e961f5338a
Nearest other occurrences of Copper
15.2km (9.4 miles) ā“˜Ardtully Mine (Cloontoo Mine), Kenmare Mines, Kenmare, Kerry County, Munster, Ireland
55.8km (34.7 miles) ā“˜Dooneen Mine, Allihies, Castletown-Bearhaven Copper Mines, Cork County, Munster, Ireland
58.7km (36.5 miles) ā“˜Glandore Mine (Aghatubrid Mine; Glendore Mine), Glandore, Cork County, Munster, Ireland
78.2km (48.6 miles) ā“˜Limerick meteorite, Limerick County, Munster, Ireland
References
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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
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Northumberland; and of serpierite at Ross Island mine, Killarney, Co. Kerry, Ireland. By ARa'HUR RUSSELL [Read January...situated three miles north of Haydon Bridge in the county of Northumberland, was originally worked as a lead...occurrence at the old copper mine of Ross Island, Killarney, Co. Kerry, Ireland, where, in 1914, I found...dumps. The Ross Island mine 2 is situated on the southern shore of Ross Island on Lough Leane or Lower...Lower Lake, Killarney (Six-Inch Ordnance Map, Kerry 66). I t had been worked at intervals from very early
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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...bornite and djurleite, or as major quartz veins with copper-polymetallic deposits. Pb isotopic ratios vary...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
Report (issue)
T.M. (eds), 2002. The Quaternary of South West Ireland. Field Guide. Quaternary Research A ':Ya~ London........................... Geological Survey of Ireland Frank Chambers ..................................contributors wish to thank the people of south-west Ireland for their hospitality and help during research...Review Section: 1.1 Glacial stratigraphy of Northern Kerry and Co. Clare Andrew Richards ....................Holocene vegetational stratigraphy of South-West Ireland Tim Mighall ........... ......................
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valleys and the Old Red Sandstone highlands of Munster. Even the featureless stretches of the central...geological context. The scenic beauties of Connemara, Killarney or the coastline of Donegal may speak for themselves...photograph by Alan Spain, showing the Cliffs of Moher, County Clare Pelican Books Pelican Geography and Environmental...Studies Editor: Peter Hall Geology and Scenery in Ireland After graduating in Geography at Reading University...1957. He has held university teaching posts in Ireland, East Africa and Australia and has also been a
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PETROLOGY OF ZINC-LEAD-COPPER CRow DESIGN Julie Ballard ISLAND, Co. ORES AT KERRY Rob beer 35 The views...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
Report (issue)
Age copper mining in Counties Cork and Kerry, Ireland. Jackson 9 B. JovanoviƩ Primary copper mining...the production of copper. 31 B. Rothenberg and A. Blanco Freijeiro Ancient copper mining and smelting... Towards a model of chemical modification of copper from ores to metal. and J. Frangaix H-G. V.... Virdis and M.L. Ceruti P.T. Craddock Early copper smelting techniques in Sinai and 103 in the Negev...investigations. Investigations on copper ore, prehistoric copper slag and copper ingots from Sardinia. 135
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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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r. ft I I i I I ā€¢ ā€¢- \ ā€¢ ANCIENT IRELAND LIFE BEFORE THE CELTS I' Laurence Flanagan St...BOSTON I SB BR GN806.5 .. F53 1998 ANCIENT IRELAND Ā© Laurence Flanagan 1998 L 1999 All rights reserved...Cataloging-in-Publication Data Flanagan, Laurence. Ancient Ireland: Life before the Celts/Laurence Flanagan. p. cm...Prehistoric peoples - Ireland. 2. Antiquities. Prehistoric Ireland. 3. Ireland - Antiquities. I. Title...77 . Vl Ancient Ireland 6. Beakers and the Bronze Age Beaker pottery in Ireland Beaker-compatible
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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 PalƦozoic 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,
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D. Freier ------22 ------MICRO MINERALS FROM IRELAND BOARD 0.1. Green G. Ryback ā€¢ S. JJ/oreto11 S... Our illustrations show cuprite perched upon a copper dendrite, a linarite blade tipped with caledonite...C'QllJp,)c of the: muunt. Figure I. CUPRITE on COPPER: 5mm long. Wheal Buller, Redruth, Cornwall. Mick...by a calciumbarium-copper suite with minor zinc-lead-vanadium components. The copper mineralization occurs...and M.T. Price, pers. comms.) is the most common copper sulphide present at Judkins Quarry. Small amounts
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the ES2k Group Ireland In this Issue: Geopark 25th Sea Level Change Valentia Island Caldera Controversy...Controversy Gold News Book Reviews Treasure Ireland Rocky Visitors Rock Star Quarry News And more ā€¦. ISSN 1753-5271...2000 ā€“ 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...play. The article Sea level change in Northern Ireland and the forthcoming storm discusses change. This
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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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a k e District. SEaP~ERITE, a basic sulphate of copper, zinc, and calcium, was first described in 1881...described a second occurrence at Ross Island, Killarney, Co. Kerry, in Ireland, this being the first and hitherto...small copper vein near Potts Gill, which has produced an astonishing variety of secondary copper, lead...minute, pale-blue needles and resembles the Ross Island and some of the Laurium material; it is associated...smithsonite, malachite, aurichalcite, and other secondary copper minerals. Department of Mineralogy, University
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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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
occurrences being confined to Ross Island, Killarney, Co. Kerry, Ireland (Russell, 1927), and the Lake...The serpierite underlies gypsum, some of which is copper stained, and crystallizes in small cracks in limestone
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
metamorphosed red beds: evidence from the Munster Basin, Ireland Samuel C. Spinks, John Parnell, David Bellis...metamorphosed red beds: evidence from the Munster Basin, Ireland, Ore Geology Reviews (2015), doi: 10.1016/j...metamorphosed red beds: evidence from the Munster Basin, Ireland IP T Samuel C. Spinks1, 2*, John Parnell1...and metasedimentary terranes. The Munster Basin of southern Ireland is a good study area for sedimentary...ore-grade biogenic sediment-hosted copper and remobilized vein-hosted copper sulfides, which are prospective
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Carbonate-Hosted Tullacondra Cu-Ag Deposit, Mallow, Ireland Andressa A. Silva 1, * , Pedro Cordeiro 2 , Sean...Carbonate-Hosted Tullacondra Cu-Ag Deposit, Mallow, Ireland. Minerals 2021, 11, 560. https://doi.org/10.3390/...University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland; sean.johnson@icrag-centre.org Boliden Mineral...Distillery Fields, North Mall, T23 N73K Cork, Ireland; p.meere@ucc.ie (P.A.M.); r.unitt@ucc.ie (R.U.)...carbonate-hosted ore deposits; Irish-type deposits; copper; silver; Irish Midlands Publisherā€™s Note: MDPI
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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
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P E R M I N I N G IN E U R O P E Prehistoric Copper Mining in Europe 5500ā€“500 bc W I L L I A M O ā€™B...Ambert and Miguel Ɓngel de Blas Cortina: from Ross Island to CabriĆØres and El Aramo. Preface From its...Europe some 8,000 years ago, the ability to produce copper marked a new stage in the human relationship with...conducted on some ļ¬ve millennia of prehistoric copper mining in Europe. There is a broad-ranging look...achievement. The study commences with the oldest known copper mines in Europe, dating to the sixth and ļ¬fth millennia
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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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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...ores extracted from them , as Coal, Iron, Lead, Copper, Salt, &c., are appended, as well as a list of...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
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occurrences being confined to Ross Island, Killarney, Co. Kerry, Ireland (Russell, 1927), and the Lake...The serpierite underlies gypsum, some of which is copper stained, and crystallizes in small cracks in limestone
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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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. . 313 Prehistoric copper mining and metallurgical expertise in Ireland William Oā€™Brien . . . ....Department, Connolly Building, University College Cork, Ireland. alex.manteiga@ gmail.com 15 POVOAMENTO E EXPLORAƇƃO...review of more than 1800 Bronze Age hoards, from Ireland (256), southern Britain (185), Atlantic France...view of changes in The addition of lead into the copper-tin alloy facilitates casting by increasing the...ATLƂNTICA OCIDENTAL Figure 3. 1 ā€“ Some of the tin and copper ingots discovered at Salcombe Bay (Devon, UK) (Picture
 
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