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Galena from
Cononish Gold mine, Tyndrum, Stirling, Scotland, UK


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Galena
Formula:PbS
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Galena data
Locality Data:Click here to view Cononish Gold mine, Tyndrum, Stirling, Scotland, UK
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:163184
Long-form Identifier:1:3:163184:5
GUID (UUID V4):7f8a66be-a1fa-4bf0-822f-644e4d21b9c9
Nearest other occurrences of Galena
3.4km (2.1 miles) ⓘTyndrum lead mine, Tyndrum, Stirling, Scotland, UK
31.9km (19.8 miles) ⓘSron Gharbh (Sron Garbh), Fort William and Ardnamurchan, Highland, Scotland, UK
41.2km (25.6 miles) ⓘTomnadashan mine, Killin, Stirling, Scotland, UK
41.7km (25.9 miles) ⓘMeall nan Oighreag, Ardeonaig, Stirling, Scotland, UK
41.7km (25.9 miles) ⓘCorrie Buie veins, Meall nan Oighreag, Perth and Kinross, Scotland, UK
42.8km (26.6 miles) ⓘArdtalnaig, Loch Tay, Perth and Kinross, Scotland, UK
44.8km (27.8 miles) ⓘGlen Almond, Meall nan Oighreag, Perth and Kinross, Scotland, UK
45.3km (28.1 miles) ⓘLoch a'Mhinn, Kilmelford, Argyll and Bute, Scotland, UK
47.8km (29.7 miles) ⓘGlen Lednock, Comrie, Perth and Kinross, Scotland, UK
50.7km (31.5 miles) ⓘCoire an Lubhair, Glen Tarbert, Fort William and Ardnamurchan, Highland, Scotland, UK
References
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Report (chapter)
the genesis of vein gold systems: an example from the Dalradian Supergroup in Scotland NYREE J. HILL1*,...of Leicester, University Road, Leicester LE1 7RH, UK 2 Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre...G75 0QF, UK 3 Scotgold Resources Limited, Upper Station, Tyndrum, Stirlingshire FK20 8RY, UK 4 Farscape...Geological Survey, Keyworth, Nottingham NG12 5GG, UK 6 Geology and Petroleum Geology, Kings College...of Aberdeen, Meston Building, Aberdeen AB24 3UE, UK *Corresponding author (e-mail: njh35@le.ac.uk) Abstract:
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
magmatic fluids and orogenic gold: An early magmatic fluid pulse at Cononish gold deposit? Carl Spence–Jones...magmatic fluids and orogenic gold: An early magmatic fluid pulse at Cononish gold deposit?, Ore Geology Reviews...magmatic fluids and orogenic gold: An early magmatic fluid pulse at Cononish gold deposit? Carl Spence–Jonesa...Kingdom d Scotgold Resources, Upper Station, Tyndrum, Stirlingshire FK20 8RY United Kingdom Corresponding...Significant tellurium enrichment occurs in many orogenic gold deposits but the factors causing this are little
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
quartz-breccia veins of the Tyndrum–Dalmally area, Grampian Highlands, Scotland: their geometry, origin and...and relationship to the Cononish gold–silver deposit P. W. Geoff Tanner Earth and Environmental Science...quartz-breccia veins of the Tyndrum–Dalmally area, Grampian Highlands, Scotland: their geometry, origin and...and relationship to the Cononish gold–silver deposit. Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of...quartz-breccia veins of the Tyndrum– Dalmally area, Grampian Highlands, Scotland: their geometry, origin
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1080/03717453.2017.1404682 A black shale protolith for gold-tellurium mineralisation in the Dalradian Supergroup...of Geosciences, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK; bTrace Element Speciation Laboratory (TESLA), Department...Aberdeen, UK; cScottish Universities Environmental Research Centre, East Kilbride, Glasgow, UK Downloaded...Supergroup of Britain and Ireland is mineralised by gold-tellurium vein deposits. The host succession includes...which were a source of trace elements, including gold and tellurium. LA-ICP-MS mapping of pyrite crystals
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Compositional Studies of Alluvial Gold: An Example from the Loch Tay Area, Central Scotland Robert Chapman *, Taija...Environment, The University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK * Correspondence: r.j.chapman@leeds.ac.uk Abstract:...of 1887 gold alluvial particles from six localities to the south of Loch Tay in central Scotland were interpreted...different types of source mineralization. Populations of gold particles from each locality were grouped according...Inclusion suites provided the primary discriminant with gold from Group 1 localities showing a narrow range of
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QUIZ 3 ANOTHER CHALLENGE SMLS BARBECUE 2021 CONONISH GOLD MINE ZOOM LINKS DATES FOR YOUR DIARY MINERAL QUIZ...have no plutonium minerals; but never mind, we have gold and platinum (in attractive nuggets), wonderful...replying that their fluorite is from the West Pastures Mine, or perhaps from Permian Mississippi Valley-type...Photo 1 Black Opal cabochon (30 x40mm) Lady Luck mine, Yowah Opal Field, Queensland, Australia This was...case I damage it. Terry worked his Lady Luck Opal mine in Yowah, which at the time was barely recognised
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1080/25726838.2019.1588517 Methane in sulphides from gold-bearing deposits, Britain and Ireland John Parnell...of Geosciences, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK; bCSIRO Mineral Resources Flagship, Australia Resources...chalcopyrite accompanying gold in the Neoproterozoic is methane-rich, but in the low-gold Munster Basin it is...for the involvement of organic species in orogenic gold mineralisation. Received 26 September 2018 Revised...for orogenic gold deposits involves the role of methane for complexing and precipitating gold (Naden and
Book (edition)
Gold Occurrences in the UK A Gold Prospector's Guide LEE GARY PALMER MSc Published in the United...United Kingdom by: Gold Productions 40 Archers Ave Irvine, Ayrshire KA11 2GB Scotland UK Content copyright©...First printed November 2019 Printed and bound in Scotland by Brown Brothers, Irvine, Ayrshire First Edition...Contents Acknowledgements Notable Nuggets of the UK Preface Gold The Word The Element Origin Locations Information...Wales - Flintshire Scotland South West Scotland - Dumfries & Galloway South West Scotland - Lanarkshire South
Report (issue)
SF/98/1 Multidataset analysis for the development of gold exploration models in western Europe J A Plant and...organisations and staff British Geological Survey, UK AG Gunn M Holder B Leveridge GE Norton KE Rollin...G Ortiz F Ribera FTornos Riofinex North, Bristol, UK D Cliff CJ Morrisey University of Barcelona, Spain...17462 Multidataset analysis for the development of gold exploration models in western Europe . ,. Editors:...1998. Multidata~t analysis for the development of gold exploration models in western Europe. British Geological
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4th January 2013 at the University of Leicester, UK. Downloaded by [RMIT University Library] at 08:39...University of Exeter, Penryn, Cornwall TR10 9EZ, UK The increasing global focus on strategic rare metals...University of Exeter, Tremough, Penryn, TR10 9EZ, UK *Corresponding author, email J.C.Andersen@exeter...from the northern margin of Dartmoor (the Red-a-Ven mine), the greisen vein systems at Redmoor and Cligga...University of Exeter, Cornwall Campus, Penryn TR10 9EZ, UK *Corresponding author, email kelloandy@yahoo.com
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Analysis of Alluvial Gold Grains to the Understanding of Complex Local and Regional Gold Mineralization: A...Mineral Services, Hartburn, Kirkcudbright DG6 4XS, Scotland, United Kingdom K. HARRINGTON, Glencar Mining...of the Iapetus suture host gold mineralization in North America, Scotland, and Ireland. To date, commercial...terrane of Canada. In Scotland and Ireland, regional analysis of the types of gold mineralization has been...bedrock gold occurrences available for study. However, there are a large number of alluvial gold localities
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
in high nugget gold veins S. C. Dominy*1,2,3 and W. B. Edgar4,5 High nugget effect gold veins are generally... Vein-gold deposits, Grade estimation, Grade uncertainty Introduction High nugget effect gold vein deposits...are often characterised by the presence of coarse gold which leads to sampling challenges (Dominy et al...Platten, 2007; Dominy and Minnitt, 2012). High nugget gold veins are one of the most difficult of mineralisation...Approaches to reporting grade uncertainty in high nugget gold veins challenges in the evaluation and integration
Journal (issue)
Changes 5 6 7 7 8 8 9 9 10 News Items Update on UK Mining Projects ...................................to several of the potential mining ventures in the UK both in terms of increased estimates of available...events are moving forward at Parys Mountain , Cononish and Hemerdon. Problems remain at South Crotty...in the future. It seems entirely possible that the UK may once again have a metalliferous mining industry...at Easter to join the Northern Mine Research Society for a week of mine exploration, sight-seeing and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Constraints on the development of orogenic style gold mineralisation at Mineral de Talca, Coastal Range...Mineral de Talca is a rare occurrence of Mesozoic, gold-bearing quartz vein mineralisation situated within...of Leicester, University Road, Leicester LE1 7RH, UK e-mail: dah29@le.ac.uk N. H. S. Oliver Holcombe Coughlin...Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4, Canada M. P. Rovardi Kinross Gold Corporation, 25 York Street, 17th Floor, Toronto...Enterprise Technology Park, East Kilbride G75 0QF, UK focussed fluid flow, and an array of NW–SE-trending
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
95, 2000, pp. 1389–1416 Regional Fluid Flow and Gold Mineralization in the Dalradian of the Sperrin Mountains...Gardens, Belfast BT9 6BS, United Kingdom Abstract Gold vein mineralization occurs in the metamorphosed...distinguishes four phases of vein quartz in the Curraghinalt gold prospect. Fluid inclusion studies and stable isotope...process resulted in precipitation of the main phase of gold mineralization characterized by an assemblage of...extensive fluid-flow event. The relative abundance of gold at the Curraghinalt and Cavanacaw prospects is thought
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Economic Geology, v. 106, pp. 359–380 Atypical Gold Mineralization in an Orogenic Setting— The Bohaun...Nottingham, UK NG12 5GG 2 Omagh Minerals Limited, 56 Botera Upper Road, Omagh, County Tyrone, UK BT78 5LH...5LH Abstract The Bohaun gold deposit in County Galway, western Ireland, is located in the Caledonian...ite with minor sulfides, hematite, rare visible gold, with a high silver content (up to 41 wt %), and...an allochthonous terrane, is typical of orogenic gold deposits. However, an orogenic association for the
Book
TX@O)NNS= ~ GOLD ie a ee PTE Eee aa Gold has been an important part of Scottish heritage for millennia...leisure panners can still be seen at the popular ‘gold’ resorts of Wanlockhead in the Leadhills of Dumfriesshire...coinage or repairs to the royal regalia. Mining for gold in the Leadhills ceased in the 1620s during the...has only been worked on a small scale since then. Gold fever was rife in Victorian Britain with stories...glamorising the rags-to-riches stories of the Californian gold rush of the late 1840s and the Australian Ballarat
Book
TT ISH OLD "FRUIT OFTHENATION re o a 2 Gold has been an important part of Scottish heritage for...leisure panners can still be seen at the popular ‘gold’ resorts of Wanlockhead in the Leadhills of Dumfriesshire...coinage or repairs to the royal regalia. Mining for gold in the Leadhills ceased in the 1620s during the...has only been worked on a small scale since then. Gold fever was rife in Victorian Britain with stories...glamorising the rags-to-riches stories of the Californian gold rush of the late 1840s and the Australian Ballarat
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..... 5 6 7 8 10 12 12 13 16 16 17 News Items. UK Mining Snippets ................................................................................... UK and European mineral shows in2019 .................also a list of minerals shows taking place in the UK this year - along with some (but by no means all)...Society's central aims, the study and reporting of UK topographic mineralogy. The fact that reports of...of individual visits are regularly fed back to mine and quarry company managers and to the various other
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Farquharson Mineral Collection-page 11 CONTENTS 3 UK mining update 18 Christmas cheer for BMS Member(s)...Obituary Michael (Mike) Peel Bayley Hemerdon Ball Mine update 16 24 27 31 OFFICERS - CONTACT DETAILS...at Easter to join the Northern Mine Research Society for a week of mine exploration, sight-seeing and...Micromount Society I 0th anniversary edition of the UK Journal of Mines and Minerals in 199 1, and was a...Mike, Neil and I made a number of joint trips to Scotland and one of these, in the summer of 1994 is recorded
Report (issue)
Programme Gold mineralisation in the Dalradian rocks of Knapdale-Kintyre, south-west Highlands, Scotland Department...143 Gold mineralisation in the Dalradian rocks of Knapdale-Kintyre, south-west Highlands, Scotland AG...143 Gold mineralisation in the Dalradian rocks of Knapdale-Kintyre, south-west Highlands, Scotland A G...G, Shaw, M H, Rollin, KE, and Styles, MT. 1996. Gold mineralisation in the Dalradian rocks of Knapdale­...Knapdale­ Kintyre, south-west Highlands, Scotland. Mineral Reconnaissance Programme Report, British Gt:."Ological
Report (edition)
Quarry, Aberfeldy 193 196 24 Eas Anie Vein, Tyndrum 20 25 (MNS 5591) (MNS 5694) Kemnay Quarry...Highlands 3 Subdivisions of the Quaternary of Scotland 4 Principal metalliferous mineral occurrences...any manmade developments. The resources include gold, baryte, small amounts of copper, lead, zinc and...the deep trench of Glen Mor—the Great Glen of Scotland—which traverses the whole of the Highlands from...relatively subdued topography of the Midland Valley of Scotland abruptly gives place northwards to the more rugged
Book
MINERALS OF SCOTLAND PAST AND PRESENT Alec Livingstone National Museums of Scotland Publishing Limited... Publishedby NMS PublishingLimited NationalMuseumsof Scotland ChambersStreet EdinburghEHl lJF © 1MS PublishingLimited...FOREWORD Vll ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS INTRODUCTION Scotland, the country, physiography Xl Xlll SCOTLAND'S...SCOTLAND'S GEOLOGICAL EVOLUTION The voyage of Scotland through time COLLECTORS AND COLLECTIONS Introduction...species 1 55 2 Minerals originally discovered in Scotland 188 3 Scottish minerals 1991-96 190 REFERENCESAND
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America open access publications ................ UK Mining News. ......................................Update ........ Correction: “Prince of Wales Gold Mine” ........................................... ...equipment (in addition to hammers and chisels) on to mine dumps. In the short reports section you will find...updates (still lots of activity in various parts of the UK) and an addition to the list of “creative things...minerals I found/acquired”? “New activity at the mine/quarry down the road”? “Developments in my local
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the USA is not quite such an exocic c" ,;0·1 :\nd galena is rarely featuredin the BMS Newsletter and David...update on the Cononish Gold Mine in Uncertainty at Scotland's Only Operating Gold Mine. While Clive was...with tables covered with microscopes and boxes of mine and a buzz of conversation and enjoyment. It was...the weekend? PB The pyromorphites from Frank Mills Mine in Devon. And a fluorite from SaintPeray Ardeche...being over 60 cm long!) and outstanding crystals of galena, (arguably the world's best at the time), hence
 
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