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


Locality type:Island
Classification
Species:Pyrite
Formula:FeS2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Pyrite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Ross Island, Lough Leane, Killarney, Kerry County, Munster, Ireland
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:629517
Long-form Identifier:1:3:629517:2
GUID (UUID V4):5087f89e-cece-4105-aac3-903610f358c1
Nearest other occurrences of Pyrite
2.2km (1.3 miles) ⓘMuckross Mine, Killarney, Kerry County, Munster, Ireland
15.3km (9.5 miles) ⓘCaher West Mine (Shanagarry Mine), Kenmare Mines, Kenmare, Kerry County, Munster, Ireland
42.7km (26.5 miles) ⓘRooska Mine, Sheeps Head Peninsula, Cork County, Munster, Ireland
53.6km (33.3 miles) ⓘBallybunnion, Kerry County, Munster, Ireland
55.1km (34.2 miles) ⓘMountain Mine, Allihies, Castletown-Bearhaven Copper Mines, Cork County, Munster, Ireland
55.8km (34.7 miles) ⓘBallycummisk Mine, Audley Mines, Ballydehob, Mizen Peninsula, Cork County, Munster, Ireland
56.1km (34.8 miles) ⓘLeamnamucka, Doon East, Ballybunnion, Kerry County, Munster, Ireland
56.8km (35.3 miles) ⓘTullacondra Cu-Ag Deposit, Mallow, Cork County, Munster, Ireland
59.7km (37.1 miles) ⓘDhurode Mine (Carrigacat Mine), Mizen Peninsula, Cork County, Munster, Ireland
63.2km (39.2 miles) ⓘRock Island Quarry, Crookhaven, Mizen Peninsula, Cork County, Munster, Ireland
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 Killarney–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...Chadian–Holkerian age. These lithologies at Ross Island exhibit a continuum of deformation at both the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
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...emplacement of the mineralised tectonic Ross Island sheet, west of Killarney, must post-date 280 Ma. The diïŹ€erence
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
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...charactcris(ic pyritelike striations. Minute crystals of pyrite were observed on the surface of one of the masses...occurrence at the old copper mine of Ross Island, Killarney, Co. Kerry, Ireland, where, in 1914, I found several...dumps. The Ross Island mine 2 is situated on the southern shore of Ross Island on Lough Leane or Lower
Journal (issue)
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
Report (issue)
Bronze Age copper mining in Counties Cork and Kerry, Ireland. Jackson 9 B. Jovanovié Primary copper...Department of Geology, IN COUNTIES CORK AND KERRY, IRELAND S. JACKSON Trinity College, Dublin Abstract...of proven Ireland, Cork and southwest (west Co. or probable Early Bronze Co. Kerry), Age date...artifacts cast during the Early Bronze Age in Ireland has been estimated as some 75 tonnes of metal....of finished copper metal produced in southwest Ireland alone a substantial imbalance becomes apparent
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)
D. Freier ------22 ------MICRO MINERALS FROM IRELAND BOARD 0.1. Green G. Ryback ‱ S. JJ/oreto11 S...crystal aggregates. Inclusions of brassy ·ydlow pyrite and minor pale brown sphakrite have been noted...tours of 'The Mines of Rio Tinto and the Iberian Pyrite Belt' and 'The Mines of Andalucia', including Almeria...rarely litharge replaces cerussite. PYRITE FeSz l\linute, distorted pyrite crystals occur in small amounts... 10 MICROMINERALS f r o m IRELAND Part 1: The South-West (Munster) George Ryback, 42 Bell Road, Sittingboume
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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 (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.)...an S-N marine transgression across Ireland [9] and formed the Munster Basin [10,11]. The Lower Carboniferous
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...Se-Te mineralization was identified across the Munster Basin, accompanied by trace gold-silver-mercury
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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Ambert and Miguel Ángel de Blas Cortina: from Ross Island to CabriĂšres and El Aramo. Preface From its...Mediterranean to Iberia, southern France, Britain, and Ireland, the Eastern Alps and central Europe, as far as... amongst others. These include my research in Ireland and similar studies elsewhere, work that continues...the work of other pioneers across Europe, from Ireland to Russia. Their work laid the foundation for the...ïŹeldwork at Ross Island, Derrycarhoon, and other early copper mines in south-west Ireland. This journey
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Manual of the Mineralogy of Great Britain and Ireland (1858). These lists were published in the Reports...Somerset; 1 from Cheshire; 2 from Scotland; and 2 from Ireland). Geographical distribution of the minerals: of...England (75 of which are from Cornwall); 28 from Ireland; and 10 from Wales. (The remaining 12 minerals...(48 from Cornwall); 35 from Scotland; 19 from Ireland; and 7 from Wales. The remaining 5 are simply British...England, Pennines and northern England, Wales, Ireland, Scotland, etc. When this has been done the way
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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...garnets, in gneiss . At Fetlar in the Shetlands. Island of Mull ; on the estate of Killimore, two miles
Book (edition)
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
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Prehistoric copper mining and metallurgical expertise in Ireland William O’Brien . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...Department, Connolly Building, University College Cork, Ireland. alex.manteiga@ gmail.com 15 POVOAMENTO E EXPLORAÇÃO...review of more than 1800 Bronze Age hoards, from Ireland (256), southern Britain (185), Atlantic France...have challenged the origins and sources of tin in Ireland, suggesting that both tin and gold might have been...metal source during the Chalcolithic (probably Ross Island), there is evidence that supports the use of
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
granodioritic intrusion. The hypogene mineralization, with pyrite, As-rich tennantite-group minerals and arsenopyrite...granodioritique. La minĂ©ralisation hypogĂšne, avec pyrite, minĂ©raux du groupe de la tennantite arsenifĂšres...exploited until the shutdown of the mine in 1964. The island of Serifos has a domal architecture dominated by...of magnetite, hematite, some sphalerite, galena, pyrite, chalcopyrite, fluorite, barite, ankerite and siderite...sulfide–arsenide mineralization whose minerals, excluding pyrite, can only be deduced from the morphology of solution
Report (chapter)
sedimentary succession is best exposed in the James Ross Island area (Fig. 2). A sedimentary sequence approximately... Fig. 2. Geological sketch map of the James Ross Island area showing the exposures of the lower Gustav...Bertodano Formation, Sobral Formation and the Seymour Island Group. and tufts of the Late Jurassic-Early Cretaceous...1 km thick and is exposed on :~orthern James Ross Island (Fig. 2) (Ineson et al. 1986). The lower three... The formation is exposed on northern James Ross Island (Fig. 2) and can be divided into two facies associations
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
dendrites of manganese oxide, and pseudomorphs after pyrite. The lamination in the dolomite is contorted and...grains are coated with iron oxides. Oxidised former pyrite framboids are moderately abundant. The stromatolites...following retreat of the ice sheet (McLeod, 1964; Kerry et al., 1977). Former marine waters have been concentrated...Antarctica (after Atlas Antarktiki, Moscow, 1966). Kerry et al. (1977) have recently summarized a study of...is due to solar heating. It has been suggested (Kerry et al., 1977} that the permanent thermal and chemical
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
submarine volcanism in ANDRILL AND-1B drill core, Ross Embayment, Antarctica Alessio Di Roberto1, Massimo...Late Miocene submarine volcanic activity in the Ross Embayment during a period of no to limited glaciation...obtained from beneath the McMurdo Ice Shelf, in the Ross Embayment of Antarctica (Fig. 1). The McMurdo Ice...Peninsula, Ross Island (Fig. 1), in the subsidence moat created by the volcanic Ross Island (Naish et...system in the McMurdo Sound region (Kyle, 1990). Ross Island, a large volcanic complex just north of the drill
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
SALTS ON MOUNT EREBUS AND ALONG THE COAST OF ROSS ISLAND, ANTARCTICA* LOIS M. JONES', GUNTER FAURE' ...salts on Mount Erebus and along the co ast of Ross Island, Antarctica . Isot. Geosci., 1: 57-64 . Salt...coast of Ross Island and on the summit of Mt. Erebus, an active volcano that dominates the island. The 8'Sr/...quantities of snow in the ice caves. INTRODUCTION Ross Island is part of a large volcanic province located...an elevation of 3794 m (Fig. 1). The rocks of Ross Island consist primarily of basanite and basanitoid
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
X-ray diffraction data for tschermigite, Sweetwater County, Wyoming 8. X-ray diffraction data for epsomite...diffraction data for bieberite, Dolly Prospect, Emery County, Utah 15. X-ray diffraction data for alunogen,...for raimondite, Island ofC ypri 22. X-ray diffraction data for beavcrite, Beaver County, Utah 23. X-ray...diffraction data for antlerite, Temple Mountain, Emery County, Utah . . . . 25. X-ray diffraction data for dolerophanite...diffraction data for botryogen, Knoxville, Napa County, California 31. X-ray diffraction data for copiapite
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Museum) Mining hammer from Mt Gabriel, Co. Cork, Ireland Stone hammers made for mining experiments with...Age copper mines at Mt 47 Gabriel, Co. Cork, Ireland (from O’Brien, 1990) 48 Map showing locations...in British Isles a) Copper workings on Ross Island, Killarney, associated with Beaker material, and dated...O’Brien (Bronze Age copper mines in south-west Ireland), David Sim (bloom smithing), Simon Timberlake...reporting the analysis of two Bronze Age swords from Ireland (Pownall, 1786), and Martin Klaproth, ‘the father
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...Pigeonite Pinite Pistacite Prehnite Prochlorite Pyrite Pyrrhotite Qrtartz Riebeckite Rutile Salite Sanidine...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
 
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