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Beryl from
Diamond Rocks, Mourne Mountains, County Down, Northern Ireland, UK


Locality type:Occurrence
Classification
Species:Beryl
Formula:Be3Al2(Si6O18)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Smoky Quartz3 photos of Beryl associated with Smoky Quartz at this locality.
Mica Group3 photos of Beryl associated with Mica Group at this locality.
Orthoclase2 photos of Beryl associated with Orthoclase at this locality.
Albite1 photo of Beryl associated with Albite at this locality.
Biotite1 photo of Beryl associated with Biotite at this locality.
Feldspar Group1 photo of Beryl associated with Feldspar Group at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Beryl data
Locality Data:Click here to view Diamond Rocks, Mourne Mountains, County Down, Northern Ireland, UK
Photo GalleryView Gallery (5 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:14948
Long-form Identifier:1:3:14948:8
GUID (UUID V4):f66c8701-c01c-4f41-90a7-616626f9444c
Nearest other occurrences of Beryl
4.3km (2.7 miles) Lindsay's Leap, Newcastle, Mourne Mountains, County Down, Northern Ireland, UK
7.1km (4.4 miles) Slievenamiskan, Spelga, Mourne Mountains, County Down, Northern Ireland, UK
87.3km (54.2 miles) Granite Mountain, Malew, Rushen, Isle of Man
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
THE MOURNE MOUNTAINS. By R. LLOYD PRAEGER, B.E., B.A. (Read 511z July, ,895;) Mountains, anciently Beanna...Beanna Boirche (the Peaks T H Eof Mourne Boirche, an Irish chieftain) form the most elevated land in...mountain-groups in Ireland. They are situated in the southern extremity of County Down, surrounded by a...undulating tract of drift-covered Ordovician rocks. The mountains cover an elliptical area of about fourteen...of Ordovician rocks, the Slieve Croob range {I755 feet) rises in the centre of County Down, composed of
Book
location of gemstones in the United Kingdom and Ireland to be published for a hundred years. Based on many...their geographical England and Wales, Scotland and Ireland occurrence. detail, in separate chapters, and specific...M. A. Cunningham, of the Geological Survey of Ireland; W. F.-Davidson, of Penrith; J. N. M. Firth; L...Geological Sciences, Leeds; Miss M. C. Hill, County Archivist, Salop County Council; P. G. Hines; Robert Hogg,...James, Curator, Shrewsbury Museum; D. O. Jones, County Librarian, Anglesey; K. A. Jones, of Queen’s University
Journal (issue)
INDEX UK JOURNAL OF MINES AND MINERALS ISSUES 11 - 20 (1992 - 2000) Michael Wolfe David Green, Julie...Julie Ballard and Richard Bell 2002 UK Journal of Mines and Minerals - index to issues 11 to 20 -1- CONTENTS... our second index, covers issues 11 to 20 of the UK Journal of Mines and Minerals, published between...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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
LONG EXCURSION TO BELFAST, THE COAST certain rocks of a similar character in Derbyshire; and though...party then crossed the Happy Valley to the High Rocks. At the bottom of the valley is a patch mapped Wadhurst...seen at the side of the stream. Nearer the High Rocks the rock of the Tunbridge Wells Sand appears abruptly...in a north and south direction, east of the High Rocks, and then bends to the north-west, thus bringing...mapping is a little difficult to follow. At the High Rocks the rock masses were again seen, on a larger scale
Journal (issue)
IN THE SUPPLY OF QUALITY MINERAL SPECIMENS IN THE UK. WE ARE CURRENTLY LOOKING TO BUY INDIVIDUAL MINERAL...01884 821724 e-mail: ian@crystalciassics.co.uk UK TS C 2 COVERPrismatichexagonalberyl to 14 mm w...withorthoclaseandsmokyquartzfromDiamond Rocks,MourneMountains,Co. Down.Stephen Moretoncollection. TwENTY...TwENTY YEARS IN MINERALS David Green 9 The UK ]011rnalof Mines and Minerals publishes articles of interest...NEWS and EVENTS Mick Wolfe YEARS 1N MINERALS: IRELAND David Green• Stephen Moreton 37 PYRITE FROM
Journal (issue)
EARTH SCIENCE Magazine of the ES2k Group Ireland In this Issue: Mineral Crystals Life Drilling Offshore...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...scurrying up Macgillycuddy’s Reeks and the Mourne Mountains. They will have joked about climate change...up-beat reports from groups visiting Ireland to see our landscapes and rocks. I enjoyed putting this issue together
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
STRUCTURAL RELATIONS of the IY[OURNE GRANITES (NORTHERN IRELAND). By JAMES ERNEST RICHET, ]~[.C., B.A.I.,...Subjects ................................. Country-Rocks. Dyke-Swarm of the Eastern Mournes. Auto-intrusions...INTRODUCTION. THE Mourne Mountains rise abruptly from sea-level south of Newcastle, Co. Down, on a front of...excepting the two adjoining Fig. 1.- Te~'tia~:r (qneous rocks and Devonian .qranite of iVewv.r (2vSjrtl~-Eastern...index-map of the chief Tertiary intrusion-centres in Ireland and Scotland.] centrally disposed peaks of Eagle
Journal (issue)
............. Former miner honoured for building UK - Mexico links .................... Crystal Classics.......................... Collecting in the Mourne Mountains - once upon a time ................. . Posnjakite...be! The Olympic Games in London, the Queen 's Diamond Jubilee celebrations and the Russell Society's...this 40 th Anniversary venture. I shall be standing down as President at the AGM in 2013 and will be pleased...regions. During this period his childhood interest in rocks and minerals was revived and he contemplated a formal
Journal (issue)
mm tall pale blue apatitecrystal from Megilligar Rocks, Breage, Cornwall. Collectedby NickTalbott.Thephotois...Thephotois a combinationof nineseparatedigitalimages. The UK Joumal of Mi11esand Minerals publishes articles of...Chambers 47 Born< REVlEWS 55 CLASSIFIED ADVERTJSMENTS UK Journal of Mines & Minerals No. 25 -1- EDITORIAL...to be a genuinely rare mineral. This issue of the UK]oumal efMines and Minerals concentrates on rare minerals...might otbeiwise be lost. Unlike the well-known county record schemes, which operate in subjects such
Report (issue)
Geology around the University Towns: North-East Ireland-The Belfast Area by J. K. CHARLESWORTH and J. PRESTON...Immediate Surroundings II. Slievc Croob and the Mourne Mountains 111. Slicvc Gullion and its Ring-Dyke IV....1958 PRICE; THREE SHILLINGS . .• North-East Ireland: the Belfast Area b�· J. k. CHARLESWORTH and J...soft Triassic rocks), of the J-lolywood and Castlereagh Hills (Ordovician and Silurian rocks), and (on a...a clear day) of Slieve Croob and the Mourne Mountains. The monument on Scrabo Hill is also visible. Return
Catalog/List
co.uk New or recent minerals are marked with a diamond. This is a mail order catalogue, but anyone is...become available. Also available, list of teaching Rocks and Minerals ' ' This cancels catalogue No 84....wh ite crusts on matrix. Rawhide Mine, Moh ave County, ½ x ½ Arizona, U.S.A £3 Kragero Norway l x2 50p...masses in qu artz, under Flux Canyon.Santa Cruz County, ½ x ½ magn ificati on there are small crystals...mixture with Chrysotile. pale grey-green mass ive. County Bri dge Quarry,Lizard ,Cornwall Jx I £ I I x2
Catalog/List
IN STOCK. - - - GIVE HE A RING I BASIC LIST OF ROCKS ABD MINERALS Bo 74 available. NEW STOCK Rate minerals...grained mass in Calcite.(Dark Star Mine,Ravalli County, Montana USA) 1 x 14 £2.50 1x1 £4 1x2 £10 156 NATIVE...matrix (Union Carbide Mine, Wilson Springs Garland County, Arkansas USA) 1x1 £4 1x2 £7.50 360 PARATELLURITE...matrix. (Outpost Mine, San Domingo Wash Maricopa County Arizona) Ixliins £4 107 CHLORARGYRITE Ag Cl good...metallic mass in ■ matrix. (Mohawk Mine,Keenaw County Michigan USA) 1x1 £3 095 CALCIOVOLBORTHITE Ca Cu
Catalog/List
catalogue No 81 Also available, list of teaching Rocks and Minerals · i �-oh-Ah������� CODE 100 2 34..._ _ magnification there arc small cr stals _ __ County. _ AI1zona 60 AMAZO:-;ITE 2x3i nch£5 Madagascar...IxI£4 TiO --- - 37 ANC\'LITE Cc Ix1/, £2.50 Ix I£4 County. Rich pinkish fine grai ned mass in calc i te Dark...ARSl::NOPYRITE Camborne,Cornwall £ 1 .50 Fe As S Hingston Down l x2 £ 1 . 50 2x2 £3 2 x3 £5 Rich silvery masses...lq_ng in matrix with Pyrr -_ _h_ ----· Hingston Down Mine.H ingston l x ½ £2.50 Apple green coatings
Catalog/List
PRACTICAL ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ROCKS AND MINERALS by John Farndon. My private collection of rocks and minerals was...illustrate this book, using 250 minerals and 140 rocks. I have the book available at £17 plus post of £5...2x2 £3 Al SO/4 767 ■ AJOITE Christmas Mine, Gila County, Arizona USA 14 ALUMINITE Railway cutting near...Spain Rich grey-white cleavages, some with minor beryl"or mica Small yellowish green crystals on matrix...size ½" £4 Ix ½ £6 lxl £8 531 ARSENOPYRITE Hingston Down Quarry,Cornwall,England Rich silvery masses with
Catalog/List
including name of mine or quarry, nearest town and county, and six figure National Grid Reference. Date coll...Lyme Regis Dry GIii mine Roughtongill Meglllggar Rocks Gunheath Pit Port Glasgow Qulralng Orrock quany...mine Wh .PhOenlx Newporlh beach Wh.Phoenix Hingston Down Wh.Gortand Wh.Corpenter Wh.Jane Wh.Goriand Gunhealh...Magheramome q. Magheramome q. Glenarm,Co.Anlrim Diamond Rocks Legavannon Baird's Brae q. Glover's q. Legavannon...lreland Lame.N.lreland Lame,N.lreland N.lreland Mourne Mnts.,N.I. Londonderry,N.I. Glengormley,N.I. Moneymore
Catalog/List
grained mass in Calcite.(Dark Star Mine,Ravalli County, Montana USA) 1 x H £2.50 1x1 £4 040 BITYITE Li...white cleavages in Muscovite. (Harding Mine,Taos County, New Mexico) 1x1 £3.50 1x2 £7 097 CHLOANTHITE (variety... About 7mm mass (Bulldog Mine, Creede, Mineral County,Colorado U.S.A) £4 439 STRACZEKITE Ca K Ba V 0...matrix (Union Carbide Mine, Wilson Springs Garland County, Arkansas USA) 1x1 £4 1x2 £7.50 396 TORBERNITE...matrix. (Outpost Mine, San Domingo Wash Maricopa County Arizona) Ixliins £4 107 CHLORARGYRITE Ag Cl good
Catalog/List
special interest in the mineralisation of the Northern Pennine Orefield, and together with others was...in the establishment of the Russell Society’s Northern Branch in 1984, the first beyond the confines...supergene mineralogy, particularly in relation to northern England, the field in which Trevor carved a niche...10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 SS.A1 Wavellite - High Down Quarry, Haddon. South Molton. [SS 652 290]. Ex Keat's...Copper - County Bridge Quarry, Lizard, Cornwall. V.Holyer 1976. [SW 722 220]. SW.Q4 Serpentine - County Bridge
Book
world mineralo- authority provides cultural beryl: and mineral collectors. here sciences, yet...material causes of to jewelry on the and beryl uses the techno- fora mineral only for and...cultural mineralogical once events. languages for beryl emerald logical to and part, Sinkankas explores...jewels—and relatives, beryl is a of the ago, the fabled Table golden beryl medicine years of...Queen 5500 Egypt the part is anywhere an beryl deposits, of fine crystal Sinkankas has in the
Catalog/List
Norway 686 BERYL Hoydalen,Tordal,Norway Rich grey-white cleavages , some with minor beryl or mica variety...ALMANDINE Brastad iron Mine near Arendal ,Norway 87 ■ BERYL Evje area . South Norway Rich fine grained solid...ALMANDINE Epteland, Evje-lveland area, South Norway 164 BERYL Kolsva, Vastmanland Sweden Rich red granular mass...silvery schist Quite rich yellow mass in Quartz or Beryl Amphibole lxl £4 lx2 £8 Be Al 0 Jxl £2 lx2 £4 ---...Feldspar lxl £3 lx2 £5 small 2x2 £9 502 ANTIGORITE County Bridge Quany,Lizard ,Cornwall 172 BEEKITE Tor Bay
Book
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
Catalog/List
catalogue No 83 Also available, list of teaching Rocks and Ivlinerals NAME =fcrcncc ==::::,de -o 2...Scotland mixture wilhChrysotile, pale grey-green ✓ County Bridge Quarry.Lizard C . ornwall massive. Stitchtitc...Rich silvery masses with Chalcopyrite ✓ Hingston Down Quarry,Cornwall,England Ashanti Mine, level 8, Obuasi...green coatings on granite.Quite well ✓ Hingston Down Mine,Hingston .Cornwall covered Saga Quarry, Tvedalen...Norway for this location. Dooneen M ine,Allihies,County lliick rich green mass as coating all over Cork
Catalog/List
PRACTICAL ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ROCKS AND MINERALS by John Farndon. My private collection of rocks and minerals was...illustrate this book, using 250 minerals and 140 rocks. I have the book available at £17 plus post of£5...--··---- - - - - - · . 767 AJOITE Christmas Mine, Gila County, Arizona USA 17 ANAL CITE Talisker Bay, Skye, Scotland..../ Rich grey-white cleavages , some with minor beryl or mica colourless micro crystals on 3mm matrix...- -- ·- -37 ANCYLITE Ce Dark Star Mine.Ravalli County. Montana U.S.A 963 ALBITE Maine USA Rich pinkish
Catalog/List
Boxed. £4. 12W. ANDRADITE GARNET. San Benito County,California,USA. Ex George Holl­ oway collection...green-black,laminate cryst.ils. SC,£4. APATITE. Renfrew County,Ontario,Canada. Large,hexagonal crystal scc­ tion(80x20mm...20mm edge. Lack of provenance detail keeps price down. TN,£4. AZURITE. [Chessylite Nodule]. Chessey des...50x40x15mm. £60. 48W. SOW. BARITE. Haybee,Clay County,Ohio,USA. Matrix-free jumble of gemmy,pale, ice-blue...Penberthy.MIN,£10.SC,£20. 59. BERYL(GREEN). Sheske�oe,County Donegal. Ireland. Matrix fragment topped with
Catalog/List
catalogue No 81 Also available, list of teaching Rocks and Minerals CODE NAME DESCRIPTON PRICES with...\IOSITE Rich white cruslS on matrix. £5 PbSiO/3 County. Arizona. U.S.A 2x2 1x2 sop Kragero Norway Rich....maenification there are small crystals · - · .County. A:fiZC>i:i--=a=--- 60 AMAZONITE Attractive green...grained mass in calcite Dark Star Mine.Ravalli County. Ix½ £2.50 Ixl £4 37 ANCYLITE Cc CeSr CO/3 ·. __...lxl £1 mixture with Chrysotilc. pale grey-green County Bridge Quarry.Lizard 502 ANTIGORITE !. ~ omwall
Catalog/List
crystals. I , '1' Also available, list of basic Rocks and Minerals No 74. ,,1 ~ } ,--, ~ ) i i j ...SO/4 OH magnification there arc small crystals County, Arizona -------------"'--------'-'--'----'--____;;...Pure grey cleavable massive Crystal peak, Park County, Colorado, USA Keystone, South Dakota U.S.A. 1"...grained mass in calcite Dark Star Mine,Ravalli County, Ix½ £2.50 lxl £4 ANCYLITECe CeSr CO/3 Montana...lx2 £2 mixture with Chrysotile, pale grey-green County Bridge Quarry,Lizard ,Cornwall MgFeSiO massive
 
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