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Pyrite from
Stage mine, Knockmahon, Bonmahon (Bunmahon), Waterford County, Munster, Ireland


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Pyrite
Formula:FeS2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Botallackite4 photos of Pyrite associated with Botallackite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Pyrite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Stage mine, Knockmahon, Bonmahon (Bunmahon), Waterford County, Munster, Ireland
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:782425
Long-form Identifier:1:3:782425:8
GUID (UUID V4):f2c2d20b-dbbc-49e2-a41e-ff6e3be6efc9
Nearest other occurrences of Pyrite
28.9km (18.0 miles) Hook Lighthouse, Hook Head, Wexford County, Leinster, Ireland
61.4km (38.1 miles) Ballyhighland Mine (Caim), Enniscorthy, Wexford County, Leinster, Ireland
68.2km (42.4 miles) Denison deposit, Aherlow, Limerick County, Munster, Ireland
71.0km (44.1 miles) Gortdrum Mine, Monard, Tipperary County, Munster, Ireland
71.2km (44.2 miles) Lisheen mine, Moyne, Tipperary County, Munster, Ireland
73.3km (45.5 miles) Aclare, Carlow County, Leinster, Ireland
76.0km (47.2 miles) Galmoy Mine, Johnstown, Kilkenny County, Leinster, Ireland
76.8km (47.7 miles) Castlecomer Colliery, Kilkenny County, Leinster, Ireland
93.9km (58.3 miles) Ballygown South Mine, Silvermines District, Tipperary County, Munster, Ireland
94.1km (58.5 miles) Knockanroe mine, Silvermines District, Tipperary County, Munster, Ireland
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
case study from the Copper Coast, southeastern Ireland using field, geochemical and fluid inclusion data...Natural Sciences, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland. Camborne School of Mines, College of...Storey] ABSTR ACT Volcanic rocks in south County Waterford include flow-top hyaloclastite, pillow lavas...that occurred at lower temperatures during the end stage of volcanic activity. A convection driven mixing...concomitant with, the late stages of emplacement of the Bunmahon Volcano intrusions. K E Y WO R D S : Chlorite
Journal (issue)
EARTH SCIENCE Magazine of the ES2k Group Ireland In this Issue: Teaching Mineral Resources Co Roscommon...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...efficiently on behalf of ES2k and Earth science in Ireland. The reins are being picked up by Matthew Parkes...Parkes, who works for the National Museum of Ireland in Dublin, and Catherine Adamson of Queens University
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mineral & lapidary society SMLS Field Trip To Ireland Journal 210 - November/December 2007 SUSSEX...We plan to visit a range of quarries, mines and mine dumps. There is the possibility of underground collecting...collecting at two locations ( Nizna Slana - mercury mine and Vysna Boca - sulphosalts of Cu and Bi ). Signing...l FIELD TRIP TO IRELAND May 2007 Introduction. The decision to collect in Ireland in May 2007 was made...2007 field trip programme. SMLS had never been to Ireland and it seemed like a good idea at the time! In-house
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D .H .M. Alderton 17 The Mineralogy ofWapping Mine, Matlock Bath, Derbyshire F. fnce 25 13 NOTES...Brownley Hill Mine, Nenthead, Cumbria M . Wood 35 Secondary copper minerals from the Knockmahon area , County...County Waterford, Republic of [i'eland S. Moreton 36 Book Reviews 39 J. Russell Soc. , 4 ( 1), 1...Arthur made his first visit underground in a working mine, at Wheal Providence, St. Ives, Cornwall, being...to visit every mine in Great Britain and Ireland, and to go into every metalliferous mine in the British
Journal (issue)
Wolfe YEARS 1N MINERALS: IRELAND David Green• Stephen Moreton 37 PYRITE FROM THE WELSH GOLDBELT...societies, and topographic mineralogy in Britain and Ireland. We describe and illu trate (in four separate articles)...first two articles, "' hich describe Scotland and Ireland, appear here in issue 21, while the remainder will...aragonite is commonly found in caves and on the walls of mine levels. A considerable amount of research has been...many exciting new discoveries, particularly in Ireland and Scotland, where even now large tracts of land
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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...Cu-polymetallic deposits of Ireland, and the penecontemporaneous Zn–Pb deposits of Central Ireland may be because
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uranium in the Gortdrum stratiform copper deposit, Ireland M. J. Duane Present address: BPI Geophysics, University...Department of Geology, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland Abstract. The Gortdrum Cu-Ag-As-Sb-Hg-U orebody...transcurrent fault system in Southern County Tipperary, Republic of Ireland. The deposit comprises a linear...of the carbonate-hosted base-metal deposits is Ireland, such as Navan, Tynagh, Silvermines, Gortdrum,...Uranium in carbonates & sandstones Fig. 1. Map of Ireland with main deposits and prospects. The CuAg deposits
Book
This book describes the island of Ireland as a physical whole. Ireland has a peculiar significance in modern...In the early part of the Palaeozoic, north-west Ireland belonged with the New World and the remainder of...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... Mitchell 235 V 17. THE LITTLETONIAN WARM STAGE—POST 10,000 BP G. F. Mitchell 259 V 18. ECONOMIC
Journal (issue)
D. Freier ------22 ------MICRO MINERALS FROM IRELAND BOARD 0.1. Green G. Ryback • S. JJ/oreto11 S...Figure 3. CALEDONITE (0.25mm) on LINARITE: Red Gill mine Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria. R.S.W. Braithwaite Collection...the rare ban·um zeoliteham1otomeat Pen-y-Cl1111 Mine is thoughtto be only the third locali!J•forthe mineral...recorded from the Benallt Mine, Rhiw, Gwynedd (Smith & Bannister, 1944}and Cwm Orog Mine, Llangynog, Powys (Russell...\fachynlleth, and was for a rime the most productive lead mine in what was then Montgomeryshire. Discovered around
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the ES2k Group ISSN 1753-5271 EARTH SCIENCE Ireland www.habitas.org.uk/es2k Issue 3 Spring 2008 ...creation Waterford peperites Melting glaciation ±10 million years Conservation update Bears in Ireland Our...2000 – raising awareness of Earth science across Ireland Chairperson: Paul Lyle; Secretary: Kirstin Lemon...Marie Cowan and Enda Gallagher. Earth Science Ireland is published by Earth Science 2000, Belfast and...Exploration drilling is likely to restart in Northern Ireland shortly. Mancon Energy Inc, a Canadian operating
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Pentireglaze mine, St. Minver, Cornwall with crystals to 32mm. Specimen from the collection of the County Museum...single crystal I 0 mm in length from Force Crag mine, Braithwaite, Cumbria (See Mineral News). Figure...Quartz crystal 40 mm"in length from South Crafty mine, Cornwall. Manchester Museum specimen purchased...crystals to 5 mm on pyromorphite. from Force Crag mine, Braithwaite, Cumbria. Figure 4. Synchysite rosettes...recently from St. Peters Mine near Allenheads, orchumberland. In the 1930's this mine produced some of the
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
GEOLOGY AND GENESIS OF MINERAL DEPOSITS IN IRELAND ■■ — <.d ■ /A-- 'W .. 1 Edited by CJ. Andrew... ■ Geology and Genesis of Mineral Deposits in Ireland The front cover photograph shows a general view...from the 1 : 1.000,000 map Mineral Deposits of Ireland, 1984. by M. L. Browne and C. G. R. Reid, produced... Geology and Genesis of Mineral Deposits in Ireland Edited by C. J. Andrew, R. W. A. Crowe, S. Finlay...be ordered from: GGMDI c/o Geological Survey of Ireland Beggars Bush Haddington Rd. Dublin 4 Phone: 609511
Journal (volume)
varieties), from Bohill quarry, Dundrod, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, collected in 1978. The lower spray...2007 PAPERS Zoned oxidation deposits in Tynebottom Mine, Garrigil1, Cumbria Trevo r F. Bridges and David...silica gel from the walls of the Tankardstown mine, Co. Waterford, Treland Stephen Moreton 10-17 Geology...at the Conlig-Whitespots Lead Mines, County Down, Northern Ireland Norman R. Moles 40-46 Buttgenbachite...and 1. Ike Wilson 52-54 Powellite from Benallt mine, Lleyn Peninsula, Gwynedd: a first Welsh occurrence
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 (issue)
and D. Millward 64 Cuprosklodowskite from Geevor mine, Cornwall N.J. Elton, J.J. Hooper and L. Coggon...sulpha tes in an underground level of Botallack mine. Krohnkite is present and this is believed to be...assemblages observed in material from the mine tailings around Bota llack mine and Wheal Cock. The supergene mineral...hypogene copper lodes. INTRODL'CTION Botallack mine (SW 363 336) in the St Just mining district, Cornwall....;:;0;:;..,.... :.WST'JUST )~~~ BALLESWIDDEN MINE '\:;;:~. .F lGURE 1. Schematic geology of the
Journal (issue)
stream sediment survey of the area around Carrock Mine (Appleton and Wadge, 1976) shows three, roughly...goethite after, what were probably, tiny (1 to 2mm) pyrite and arsenopyrite crystals are sometimes encountered...resembles the quartz in the tungsten veins at Carrock mine, being very coarse and greasy with few cavities...epimorphs after a cubo-octahedral mineral, presumably pyrite. This material occurs in the same part of the gill...material appears to be replacing pyrite in what was originally a pyrite-cemented breccia with very little
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...suggested at the proposal stage of MB! that focusing only on Britain and Ireland might be too restrictive...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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Table 3. Introduction The lower Carboniferous of Ireland is host to a large number of base metal deposits...(which he interprets to be cephalopods and worms) by pyrite and barite in the Tynagh deposit. However, he also...also interprets masses of botryoidal pyrite/marcasite, several millimetres high as hydrothermal chimneys...is widespread throughout the southern half of Ireland as the Cork Red Marble (Shearley 1989) and equivalent...Mineralogy and isotopic data Minor ®ne-grained pyrite and marcasite are associated with all of the deposits
Report (chapter)
part of the Munster Basin: evidence from the Foilcoagh Bay Beds, Sherkin Formation, SW County Cork, Ireland...part of the Munster Basin: evidence from the Foilcoagh Bay Beds, Sherkin Formation, SW County Cork, Ireland...University College Cork, Cork, Ireland Abstract: The Munster Basin of southern Ireland contains a thick (7 km...recognition of a marine influence in the Munster Basin at an early stage in its history has several important...the development of the east-west-trending South Munster Basin may have commenced much earlier than previously
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
sulphides from gold-bearing deposits, Britain and Ireland John Parnell a , Sam Spinksb and Nigel Blameyc...samples from goldbearing deposits in Britain and Ireland are anomalously rich in methane. Chalcopyrite samples...Neoproterozoic basement (Caledonides greenschist), Munster Basin (Variscides greenschist) and the Carboniferous...Neoproterozoic is methane-rich, but in the low-gold Munster Basin it is methane-poor. These gas data from opaque...This was tested using deposits from Britain and Ireland (Figure 1) by assessing if the compositions of
Report (chapter)
magmatism in the Munster Basin, SW Ireland M. P R A C H T Geological Survey of Ireland, Beggars Bush,... Dublin 4, Ireland (e-mail: prachtm @tec. irlgov.ie) Abstract: The following paper is intended as a review...review of the magmatism in the Munster Basin and an initial attempt to link it with the basin's history...evolution and inversion of the Devono-Carboniferous Munster Basin magmatic activity was widespread, although...evolution. On the western Beara Peninsula in SW Ireland alone, more than 160 sheet-like intrusions, a wide
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Lead isotopes Gold Orogenic belts Lode Placer Ireland a b s t r a c t Lead isotope analyses have been...for the widespread sulphide mineralisation in Ireland. It is inferred that the principal controls on...Numerous (N100) gold occurrences are present in Ireland (Maclaren, 1903; McArdle et al., 1987; Stanley...performed on gold or goldbearing mineralisation in Ireland, although O'Keeffe (1986) and Parnell et al. (2000)...Geological setting 2.1. The geology of Ireland The geology of Ireland (Fig. 1) reflects a long and complex
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
:— 1. " The Igneous Rocks of the Coast of County Waterford." By F. R. Cowper Reed, Esq., M.A., F.G.S...character, and the felsitic masses of Newtown Head, Knockmahon, etc., were extruded ; probably at this time...a thin, dark layer, which seems to be the first stage towards an oolitic structure. A note is appended...quartz, plagioclase, biotite, pyroxene, amphibole, pyrite, magnetite, apatite, and zircon. Anorthosite-gneiss
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
 
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