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Stilpnomelane from
Tynagh Mine, Killimor, Galway County, Connacht, Ireland


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Stilpnomelane
Formula:(K,Ca,Na)(Fe,Mg,Al)8(Si,Al)12(O,OH)36 · nH2O
Comments:Associated with minnesotaite and hematite.
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Stilpnomelane data
Locality Data:Click here to view Tynagh Mine, Killimor, Galway County, Connacht, Ireland
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1091072
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1091072:4
GUID (UUID V4):7ed551cc-6a59-49c9-90e5-eddcd32d26c2
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
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
Report (issue)
metamorphism. Association: Quartz, siderite, stilpnomelane, greenalite (Mesabi Range, Minnesota, USA)....and in the Blue Bell mine, Riondel, British Columbia, Canada. In the Mamatwan mine, near Kuruman, Cape...Murcia Province, Spain. From Tynagh, near Killimor, Co. Galway, Ireland. At The Lizard, Cornwall, England
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
LOWER CARBONIFEROUS CHERTY AT TYNAGH, RICHARD W. IRONSTONES IRELAND SCHULTZ CONTENTS. PAGE Abstract................................... Geologyof the Tynagh Iron Formation............................................. Generalaspectsof the origin of the Tynagh Iron Formation ................ Basic theory ........................... Classification of the Tynagh ironstones.................................. Concluding................................... ABSTRACT The Tynagh Iron Formation was discoveredduring drill-exploration
Journal (issue)
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...Special issue on the minerals of Penberthy Croft Mine Published by Rock Bottom Publications Ltd. Nottingham...(2000) Famous mineral localities: Penberthy Croft mine, St. Hilary, Cornwall, England 20:7-37 Bevins, R
Catalog/List
CATALOGUE 107, NEW MINERALS 1077 ■■ ALLOPHANE Hawkswood .Mine, Cornwall Greenish , good coating on matrix, green...II: ■ GISMONDINE Green road Quarry, Ballyclare, County Antrim Chalk')' white areas on Basalt. ½ inch £4...Zeolite 169 ■■ GONNARDITE Hillsport, Island Magee, County Antrim, N.lrelan Quite rich white radiating mass...gelatin capsule .J £5 207 ■■ KESTERITE Cligga Mine Cornwall Metallic mass in matrix, quite rich Ix...£12 Mg OH Cl 385 ■■ MIARGYRITE Mc Laughlin Mine, Napa County California black areas in quartz with red
Catalog/List
about 2x3 inch surface. Shesodonnel Co Clare Ireland £10 13. WELOGANITE single yellowish terminated...of growth, the first with a coating of brown STILPNOMELANE 3,5 inches long and one inch across (Landsverk...tabular twinned crystal about 1cm size ( Telino Mine, Linopolis, Minas Gerais Brazil) £25 Na Be PO4 19...19. TITANITE variety "Greenovite" (Praboma Mine, St Marcel, Aosta Italy) pink vein about 3mm wide and...CUBANITE crystal section 5mm overall size (Henderson# 2 mine, 3250 level, Chibugamu, Quebec Canada) £12 24. CUPRIAN
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
Catalog/List
matrix hl !3 5 AGARDITE (Ce) r ...fe green micro's Mine, Wolf;_n, West Germany) 'h ins f.3. 60 6 ALBITE...mas'= (Tushar Mts, ne2r ~1.:w 7;·1il.le F'ilut·e County, Utah, U.S.A) 1x1 fl.30 lx2 f?.40 15 AMAZ0NITE...rich yellow masses with minor quartz. County, NevadaU.S.A) lxl BOp 55 BINDHEIMITE quite rich...yellow pea size masses &crusts on Quartz (les Anglais Mine, Massiac,Brouse France) lxl 60p 1x2 fl.10 56 BIOTITE...61 BORNITE rich purple mass in matrix.(Gortdrum Mine, Tipperary S.Ireland) location closed. lxl 50p 1x2
Catalog/List
to translucent crystal group 2x2 inches (Hilton Mine Cumbria) £15 BARYTES small platy white-creamy crystals...(Witherite is a poisonous mineral) 5x3 £15 Settlingstones Mine , near Hexham Northumberland CACOXENITE golden micros...cacoxenite rich area on magnetite lxlxl .5 Levaeniemi Mine, Norbotten Sweden £6 CALCITE good covering of white...massive with a hint of crystalline structure Geevor Mine Cornwall 4x2 £15 lx2 £5 --- CERULEITE small blue...minor white Alumopharmacosiderite. (Emma Louisa- Mine, Guanco, Taltal Province, Chile) 2xl .5 £10 CERUSSITE
Book
associated with the Carboniferous Pb-Zn deposit at Tynagh, Ireland (see Chapter 7). Lake Superiortype ores, by...(siderite or ankerite), silicate (greenalite, stilpnomelane, minnesotaite), and sulfide (mostly pyrite)...chamosite Minnesota Labrador Western Australia stilpnomelane Minnesota Labrador Western Australia minnesotaite...are greenalite, a 7A serpentine-like mineral; stilpnomelane, which has a talc-like structure, but able to...three most abundant minerals, greenalite and stilpnomelane are thought to be primary, and minnesotaite
Catalog/List
Rich wh ite crusts on matrix. Rawhide Mine, Moh ave County, ½ x ½ Arizona, U.S.A £3 Kragero Norway...Bastnas Mine Sweden Jx2 £6 2 x2 £1.20 2x2 £1 2 Ix ! £4 l x2 £8 New East Wheal Russell mine, Devon...masses in qu artz, under Flux Canyon.Santa Cruz County, ½ x ½ magn ificati on there are small crystals...£ 16 2x3 £25 l x l £3 San Jose Mine, Oruro, Bolivia Benallt Mine,Lleyn ,Wales l x2 £1.5 0 6x6mm £3... Rich fawn sheaves in silvery schist Kaveltorp Mine Sweden Jx2 £ I l.x2 £2.5 0 l x2 £1.20 2x2 £2
Catalog/List
Cu UO PO/4 slightly radioactive. (Old Gunislake Mine Cornwall) a) green 3mm area on ropk, £3 ( b) IxhaJ...Phlogopite Mica. (Possibly slightly radioactive)(Palabora Mine,S.Africa lxl £5 1x2 £10 WITH UNUSUAL ELEMENTS...sections in matrix with Eudialyte.Rare not Rich (Umba Mine,Lovozero Massif,Kola Russia) lxl £4 1x2 £7.50 239...silvery areas in matrix with Tellurite. (La Bambolla Mine Moctezuma, Sonora Mexico) lxl £10 14 x 54 ins £5...yellow crusts on matrix. (Outpost Mine, San Domingo Wash Maricopa County Arizona) lx)4ins £4 063 CAVANSITE
Catalog/List
refere nce and specime n numbe r(s) 25 3 Inde x by mine ral showing spe cime n numbers 39 4 Index by...es. Locality. including name of mine or quarry, nearest town and county, and six figure National Grid Reference...Waterba.nk mine Waterbank mine Hilton mine Esgair Hir mine Milltown quany Esgair Hir mine Broadlaw vein...Mllttownquany Wh.Jane Comw. HIiton mine Waterbank mine Mllltown quany Eaglebrook mine Uechwedd Helyg Wh.Gorland...Waterbank mine Waterbank mine Milltownquany Waterbank mine Wh.Fortune Lyme Regis Dry GIii mine Roughtongill
Catalog/List
black masses i n green A c t i n o l i t e (Bastnas Mine, Riddarhyttan Sweden) lx1 £1.10 010ALMANDINE F...mass. (Tushar Mts, near Marysville, P i l u t e County Utah, USA) lx1 £ 1 . 6 0 • 0 11 THAUSITE Mg Phosphate...Muscovite red micaeous masses on matrix (Praborna Mine,St Marcel, Val d ' Aosta I t a l y ) lx1 70p 1 x...crystalline masses in matrix (Mullaghderg,County Donegal, Ireland) 1x2 £2 022 ANGLESITE P b Sulphate rich...i c h fawn massive. Xrayed material. (Sjogruvan Mine, Grythyttan , Sweden) lx1 £1.50 1 x 2 £3 2 x 2 £6
Journal (issue)
to 22nvn from 3 ---- - - ----- Cook's Kitchen mine, Cornwall. Spedmen In the collection of the Royal...SOCIETY Peter Moore • John Pearce 10 FORCE CRAG MINE Dtlf.!idGreen • DavidMcCa/lum • Mike Wood 15 MINERAL...through the appropriate channels. YSTRAD EINION MINE John Mason • Steve Rust 37 BOOK REVIEWS 45 CLASSIFIED...cm olivenite specimen, said to be from Tincroft mine, but more probably from either Wheal Gorland or...classic Cornish copper secondaries at Ting Tang mine. This includes fine specimens of that most desirable
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Central Europe (Meggen, Gwosdz and Krebs, 1977) and Ireland (Russell, 1974). The significance of these haloes...garnets (35 % MnO), pyroxenes (5 % MnO), and stilpnomelane (II % MnO) from the ore environment of stratabound...distribution of manganese in the Broken Hill, N.S.W., mine sequence: garnets contain up to 7% MnO, biotites...Window, Upper Carinthia 6 . , 7.: Ublarn copper mine, Styria (6 = footwall of ore band, 7 = near ore...are also located in pyroxene, hornblende, and stilpnomelane. 3) Manganiferous garnets in lowergrade metamorphic
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Ferriferous silicates include greenalite, stilpnomelane, minnesotaite and grfinerite, the first three...unmetamorphosed Mississippian (Lower Carboniferous) Tynagh MECS-IF (Schultz, 1966). Siderite generally contains...FeCO 3 and alternatively called cha]ybJte St stilpnomelane APPENDIX Non-ferriferous and Weakly Ferriferous...1959. Geology of the Lake Mary quadrangle, Iron County, Michigan. U.S. Geol. Surv., Bull., 1077, 112 pp...the Nimba itabirite and associated rocks, Nimba County, Liberia. Econ. Geol., 69: 80--92. Berggren, W
Catalog/List
Minerals in this list; Aenigmatite,Atacamite from Ireland,Austinite, grey Calcite,pure Chrysoberyl,Coronadite...polished Labradorite.Tacharanite and Tobermorite from Ireland . Five new rocks. This catalogue cancels No 79...Greenish , sparse, acicular micros in Penbenhy Croft Mine, St cavities in quartz_________________ Hilary Cornwall...ALAMOSITE Rawhide Mine, Mohave Ixl £9 'A x A £3 1 xA Pb SiO/3_____________ County. Arizona, U.S.A £5___...Feldspar_____________ Black areas in actinolite Basinas Mine Sweden 1x1 £1.20 ALLANITE 9 Ce Y Fe SiO__________
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Palmyra COSP Dalmellington COSP Dairy Clayband MECS Tynagh SCOS Tuyun SCOS Namur SVOP Constanze-Lahn-Dill...classifiedtypes. Common morphosed Mississippian Tynagh MECS-IF minerals include hematite, magnetite, greenalite...1966). Bandsrich in thesemineralstypisiderite,stilpnomelane, minnesotaite, grunerite,py- cally alternate...has examined COSP-IF ironstoneat the La Chapacoal mine near pected. Precambrian coalis similarlyscarce(TyIer...Israel Program Sci. Translation [Jerusalem], Iron County, Michigan: U.S. Geol. Survey Bull. 1077, 266 p
Catalog/List
massive with minor Celsian and Bementite from Benallt Mine, Lleyn, Wales, (Recently tested by XRD) lxl £4 lx2...£15 £6 88 ADAMITE Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Mexico 1036 ALSTONITE Fallowfield Mine, Northumberland Colourless...50 2x2 £3 Al SO/4 767 ■ AJOITE Christmas Mine, Gila County, Arizona USA 14 ALUMINITE Railway cutting...~-------·-·-- ·· -·· 1077 ■■ ALLOPHANE Hawkswood Mine, Cornwall 933 ANATASE Hingston Quarry,Cornwall Black...Kola Russia 501 ALLOPHANE New East Wheal Russell mine, Devon ,England grey bleby small botryoidal with
Catalog/List
___ 2x2£3 ___ - -----~ - ~014_ _ 88 ADAMITE Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Mexico 69 ALUMOHYDROCALCITE South Bay,...--··---- - - - - - · . 767 AJOITE Christmas Mine, Gila County, Arizona USA 17 ANAL CITE Talisker Bay, Skye...- -- ·- -37 ANCYLITE Ce Dark Star Mine.Ravalli County. Montana U.S.A 963 ALBITE Maine USA Rich pinkish...North Sweden 501 ALLOPHANE New East Whcal Russell mine, Devon ,England variety VIRIDINE (Mangan rich variety)...217 ANDORITE San Jose Mine, Oruro, Bolivia 1129 ■ ALMANDINE Brnstad iron Mine near Arendnl ,Norway Pure
Catalog/List
----·-·- ---- ·- -- 1129 ALMANDINE Brastad iron Mine near Arendal ,Norway 87 ■ BERYL Evje area . South...---·-··----·------ ·- - ---27 ANTHOPHYLLITE Kaveltorp Mine Sweden 1008 CHRYSOBERYL Kolsva. Vastmanland Sweden...--~----· ·---·-------- -- -62 COBAL TITE Bolidcn Mine, North Sweden 1003 ARSENIOPLEITE Sjogruvan,Ridd...2x3 £25 Ampibole 1140 ERYTHRITE Sl-a1tterud Cobalt Mine. Vikersund Norway 970 MAGNESIOHASTINGSITE Langban...________ __ _!LU9! .~~~ -E N1 163 GALENA Smallcleugh Mine, Nenthcad. Cumbria Cube-octahedral grey crystals
Catalog/List
£10 2x2 £15 Ix! £3 lx2 £6 I · 88 ADAMITE Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Mexico Colourless to yellow small crystals...£15 Na Ca SiO F 7fJ 7 ■ AJOITE Christmas Mine, Gila County, Arizona USA Blue veinlets in matrix some...no/2 feldspar 37 ANCYLITE Ce Dark Star Mine,Ravalli County, Montana U.S.A Rich pinkish fine grained...£7.50 Ag Sb 501 ALLOPHANE New East Wheal Russell mine, Devon ,England grey bleby small botryoidal with...£8 2x3 £12 236 1129 • ALMAN DINE Brastad iron Mine near Arendal ,Norway Rich fine grained solid grainlike
Catalog/List
black-brown cleavage Yakutia. Russin 5mm£2 Rawhide Mine, MohavcCounty, ½xY,£3 Arizona , US.A . l.x2 50p...group AlS0/4 Al S0/4 ✓ New East Whcal Russell mine, Devon .England Madagascar Railway cutting nearCreston...in Porphyl)·. Pure grey metallic mass San Jose Mine. Oruro, Bolivia 6x6mm £3 23 ANHYDRITE Rich white...Scotland mixture wilhChrysotile, pale grey-green ✓ County Bridge Quarry.Lizard C . ornwall massive. Stitchtitc...Variety Francolitc.rich mass of micro ✓ Holmbush Mine. Kelly Bray . Cornwall crystals over the main surface
Catalog/List
fine grained mass in Calcite.(Dark Star Mine,Ravalli County, Montana USA) 1 x 14 £2.50 1x1 £4 1x2 £10...masses in matrix (Union Carbide Mine, Wilson Springs Garland County, Arkansas USA) 1x1 £4 1x2 £7.50 360...fairly sparse, green crusts on matrix. (San Miguel Mine Moctezuma Mexico) 1cm piece £ 5 5mm £3 WITH UNUSUAL...yellow crusts on matrix. (Outpost Mine, San Domingo Wash Maricopa County Arizona) Ixliins £4 107 CHLORARGYRITE...MINERAL !I dark red micro's on matrix. (Getchell Mine,Humboldt Co . Nevada USA) 5mm £4 up to 1.5cm £7
 
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