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Spinel from
Carneal, Glenoe, Larne, Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland, UK


Locality type:Occurrence
Classification
Species:Spinel
Formula:MgAl2O4
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Spinel data
Locality Data:Click here to view Carneal, Glenoe, Larne, Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland, UK
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:207078
Long-form Identifier:1:3:207078:0
GUID (UUID V4):73ab31eb-eb23-4514-8931-b38113a68097
Nearest other occurrences of Spinel
14.0km (8.7 miles) Scawt Hill, Larne, Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland, UK
70.4km (43.8 miles) Knockormal Hill, South Ayrshire, Scotland, UK
74.0km (46.0 miles) Poundland Burn, Colmonell, South Ayrshire, Scotland, UK
88.3km (54.9 miles) Barnavave, Carlingford, Louth County, Leinster, Ireland
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
bredigite and associated minerals from Carneal and Scawt Hill, Co. Antrim P. A. SABINE,* M. T. STYLES,~AND...hightemperature, low-pressure,exomorphic suite of Carneal, Co. Antrim. Although this mineral is very rare in nature...artificial materials. Chemical analysis of the Carneal mineral shows it to be remarkably similar to that...composition. The present paper deals mainly with the Carneal occurrence and with comparative studies on the...bredigite, larnite, spurrite, spinel, Antrim, Northern Ireland. The Carneal assemblage F Ew examples of
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the Role of Groundwater, in the Carneal Plug, Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland institute of Geological Sciences...revisedform 3 March 1982) ABSTRACT The Carneal plug, Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland, is a Tertiary dolerite intrusion...bredigite, merwinite, melilite (gehlenite), calcite, or spinel; and wollastonite, melilite, hibschite and quartz...further range of scarce to rare mineral suites. The Carneal plug thus provides an ideal opportunity to investigate...strontium budget in the metamorphic assemblages in the Carneal plug appears to have been transported into the
Book (edition)
1 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF NORTHERN IRELAND Geology of the country around Carrickfergus and Bangor Blacl<...the younger strata and volcanic rocks of County Antrim to the north. Although the area has been dealt...includes a detailed description of the geology of the Carneal Plug, discovered during the resurvey, and which...extension of the Southern Uplands Fault into Northern Ireland is discussed in the chapter dealing with geophysical...finding buried coal and hydrocarbons in south-east Antrim are also considered. In order to keep the price
Report (issue)
100.08 100.00 (1) Val di Fassa, Italy. (2) Carneal, Ireland; by electron microprobe. (3) Ca2 Al(AlSi)O7...leucite, merwinite, spurrite, diopside, ferroan spinel, phlogopite, pyrope, grossular, antigorite, pyroxenes...Adige, Italy. On Scawt Hill, near Larne, and at Carneal, Co. Antrim, Ireland. At Camas Mµor, Isle of Muck...Crestmore, Riverside Co., California; from the Tres Hermanas district, Luna Co., New Mexico; and at Iron...Iron Hill, Gunnison Co., Colorado. From the Terneras mine, Velarde~ na, Durango, Mexico. Name: After
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
948 Ferrian chlorospinel from Carneal, Co. Antrim By P. A. SABI~qE, with chemical analysis by G. A...1968] Summary. A Tertiary dolerite plug at Carneal, Co. Antrim has been contaminated by Chalk with the production...and related minerals. In a larnitespinel-rock the spinel is of the unusual ferrian variety. It has the composition...82Feo'~Mn0.1~ b;io.olZn0.ol)(Alll.2Fe~'~4Tio.os)O3~.The spinel, which is brown, has: n, 1.86~; D, 3'97; a, 8-1905/~...Geological Survey of Northern Ireland (Institute of Geological Sciences) at Carneal, Co. Antrim (Robbie, 1960)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
HENMI1) University, of County Ireland* HENMI1), of 1973 Okayama Carneal, KITINOSUKE 1) Department...analogue Fuka, and Northern CHIYOKO 243-251, natural from Japan Antrim, pp. the hydrate, ...from Carlson Fuka, (1964) Okayama Carneal, Northern Ireland. The chemical validity of of AlAl...mineral (321), contains the substitution (Carneal), the 2.354 unit colour. on A of (222),...section. The index of refraction is n=1.625 for the Carneal specimen and 1.628 for the synthetic material.
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
first discovered (Nawaz, 1974) at Inishcrone, Co. Sligo, Ireland. It occurred in association with afwiUite...second occurrence of killalaite is noted at Carneal, Co. Antrim. The chalk-dolerite contact here (Sabine...Carboniferous limestone rather than chalk is involved. At Carneal the killalaite occurs in lamite-rich rocks. They...larnite, the remainder being magnetite, perovskite, spinel, and spurrite, and veinlets and cavities of secondary...three varieties of plombierite gel are present in Carneal rocks (fig. I). A clear variety, in immediate contact
Report (issue)
97:76± Z=4 X-ray Powder Pattern: Killala Bay, Ireland. 2.824 (100), 3.03 (80), 2.724 (60), 2.275 (45)...5.88 Total [100.0] 100.00 (1) Killala Bay, Ireland; by electron microprobe, H2 O by di®erence, MgO;...(Killala Bay, Ireland); larnite, magnetite, perovskite, spinel, spurrite (Carneal, Ireland). Distribution:...east shore of Killala Bay, Co. Sligo, and at _ Carneal, Co. Antrim, Ireland. In Turkey, from the GÄ uneyce-Ikizdere...locality at Killala Bay, Ireland. Type Material: Ulster Museum, Belfast, Ireland; The Natural History Museum
Catalog/List
SO/4 723 AKAGANEITE Nandan Meteroite, Lihu,Nandan Co, China brown chips, probably mixed with Goethite...30 ATACAMITE Dooncen Mine,Allihics,County Cork,Ireland Thick rich green mass as coating all over the top...surface. Ix½ £1.50 lx2 £2.50 2x2 £5 2x3 £7,50 Ca P0/4 CO.13 F 768 AXINITE Roscommon Cliff.St Just ,Cornwall...small quartz crystals, Fluorescent yellow LW ½ x ½ £4 Co Fe Mn Fe S1O lxl £3 lx2 £5 - - - -- - -·-- - -BADDELEYITE...£30 Ba Na AISiO I x ½ £2 Ix I £4 I x2 £8 Ca P0/4 CO /3 F 38 BANAL SITE Benallt Mine, Llcyn Wales . .
Catalog/List
KNaCuAlSiOOH 723 AKAGANEITE Nandan Meteroite, Lihu,Nandan Co, China brown chips, probably mixed with Goethite...A Rich pinkish fine grained mass in calcite .CeSr CO/3 Ix½ £2.50 Ix! £4 Feldspar 20 ANCYLITE Ce Mt Yukspor...withpossible micro crystals ½" £2.50 Ix[ £4 Ba Ca CO/3 975 ALTHAUSITE Modum, Buskerud,Norway Rich brown-purple...x½ £3 CeLaCO/J 224 BAUXITE Templepatrick,County Antrim,N.lreland Quite attractive white oolitic in red-brown...Pcgmatite location. lx ½ £3 lxl £5 lx2 £10 634 - BiO CO/J Bi Ta Nb O CALCITE Also VERY LONG Phosphorescence
Catalog/List
Ravalli County. Ix½ £2.50 Ixl £4 37 ANCYLITE Cc CeSr CO/3 ·. __ . ·- - ·· - _ __ _ . . . . . . MontanaU.S...masses in Andcsite .Collected personally! Ca P0/4 CO /3 F Ix2 £1.20 2x2 Variety FRANCOLITE rich white...Holmbush Mine Cornwall 503 APATITE .. PAO Ca P0/4 CO/3 F mass . _ - · ·- · -· -- ·· 2x2 £2 lx2£1 Minas...Cornwall crystals over the main surface. Ca P0/4 CO/3 F Page I - - . Note, sizes are mainly in inches...A:A~_UIT9E• ~ _ES _C_ENT 68 Ca PO/4/ F .. ARAGONITE. 35 Ca CO/3 121 ARFVEDSONITE - - •• • • •• Quite rich, blue-grey
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
as wollastonite, vesuvianite, calcic garnets and spinel. In two recent studies, Piret et al. (1997, 1998)...(Scotland), by Sabine & Young (1975) at Carneal (Northern Ireland), and by Henmi et al. (1977) at Fuka,...being identical with the scawtite from Carneal (Northern Ireland) described by Sabine & Young (1975); it...habit to the tobermorite from Ballycraigy, Northern Ireland, described by McConnell (1955). The spatial...with those identified by Sabine & Young (1975) at Carneal and described as “allophane”. The paragenetic sequence
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
tennantite in limestone, at Gortdrum mine, Oola, Co. Tipperary, Ireland. BM(NH) specimens, collected by A. J. Criddle...uraniferous hydrocarbon at Wheal Speed, Cornwall, contain co-precipitated radium. Other localities for radium...garnet, in thermally altered chalk at Carneal, Co. Antrim, Ireland. A new species. C. Henmi, I. Kusachi...S. Haughton (I856), from the Mourne Mountains, Ireland, lacked confirmatory detail.] Cinnabar HgS Rhombohedral...xlii. From Ireland, crystalline on muddy limestone with calcite, at Gortdrum mine, Oola, Co. Tipperary
Catalog/List
;,-.;;� Lak�. British Columbia I x 1/, £I CaP0/4 CO /3 F . Canada masses i n Andesite _ .• __ _ ____...wi1h pseudo hexagonal crystals _ ___ __ ________ Ca CO/3 Rich blackish fine grained mass wilh l l imaussaq...masses 2x2 l xl £1 2x3 D.50 Near Alston. Cumbria Ba Ca CO/3 £2.50 BASALllMINITE 2x3 £4 Very rich while masses...of tiny brown grams in Drag Norway I x'/, £3 Cc Ln CO/3 YTTROFLUORITE - black - - ·- - -- -- - ----nlso...coating on rock. Clearly 1 cm £4 498 BISMUTITE Bi CO 0 visible. Sen! in plastic Box Harding Mine, Taos
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
chlorite-tremolite schist, anthophyllitite, 493 IRELAND Carneal*, Carrickfergus, Antrim, tacharanite, I I3 Leinster, manganoan...manganoan ilmenite, 419 * Confluence of Carneal Water and Clenoe Water Germany (Deutschland) Bramburg...gabbro, clinopyroxene, kaersutite, plagioclase, spinel, 259 Igdlutalik, llimaussaq, narsarsukite, nordite...gabbro, clinopyroxene, kaersutite, plagioclase, spinel, 259 Canada Mr. St. Hilaire, Quebec, helvine,
Catalog/List
Chloritc Ix½ £1.50 lx2 £2.S0 2x2 £5 2x3 £7,50 Ca P0/4 CO/3 F 57 BISMUTHINITE Carrock Mine Caldbeck fells Cumbria...cellular mass BiS lx2 £120 2x2 £2.40 _ __ _ CaP0/4 CO/3 F I x½£4 -- - - --- --- 512 BORNITEGeevor Mine...rich white crystalline fibrous and radiating. Remote UK location lx2 £4 2x2 £8 2x3 £12 - - ~~ -~18_ _ ______... Unusual for G.B ½" £3 Ix½ £S Ix! £8 MgAIO 458 SPINEL Kilchoan, Ardnamurchan, Scotland Fairly rich black...½" £5 Ix½ £8 lxl £12 .. _ __ _!-~ 359 SCAWTITE Carneal Plug, South ofLarne,N.lreland Clear micro crystal
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
delafossite, 643, 653. IRELAND India Carneal, Antrim, ferrian chlorospinel, 948. Roundstone, Co. Galway, amphibolite...oligoclase-andesine, titanaugite, spinel, 1024. Ohuma, meteorite, 101,855. Sudan Dirbat Well, Northern Red Sea Hills, schorlomite...meteorite, 293. Northern Territory Arltunga, Alice Springs, meteorite, magnetitc, chromian spinel (picotite)
Catalog/List
Norway 723 AKAGANEITE Nandan Mctcroite, Lihu,Nandan Co, China SI I brown chips, probably mixed with Gocthite...l x2 £5 2x.2 £ 1 0 BAUXITE Tcmplepatrick,County Antrim,N.lreland 224 BROOKITE ) J 36 Prcntcg , Gwynedd...2x2 £4 2x3 £6 Feldspar BEM ENTITE 50 7 Shanagolden. Co limerick, S.lreland Near Chillaton,Dcvon. 830 Cl...Dypingdal, Snarum, Vikersund Norway 56 Antrim, County Antrim, Northern Ireland 244 Grey-green crystal sections...actinolitc/silvcr I to 2mm whne crystals scattered on matrix (Co,Fc, N1) As 1/," £,I 5mm £4 l x l £7 CROCOITE CL INOZOISITE
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
The Geology of North-East Ireland account of the geology of North-East Ireland, which lies within the region...quarter-inch Sheets 2 and 5 of the Geological Survey of Ireland, contributions have been made by C. H. Emeleus...Charlesworth has written the remaining sections and co-ordinated the whole. TO THIS COMPOSITE 1. INTRODUCTION...rocks of the Highland Border Ridge of north-east Antrim (and their western continuation in the Sperrin...and Castlereagh Hills. 2. DALRADIAN ROCKS OF CO. ANTRIM Schistose rocks underlie about seventy square
Catalog/List
__ _ 723 AKAGANEITE Nandan Meteroite, Lihu,Nandan Co, China 1064 ANAPAITE Bellver, Lerida, Spain brown...colourless micro crystals on 3mm matrix £2.80 Ce Sr CO/3 Ix I £ 1.50 Ix2 £3 2x2 £4.50 2x3 £6.50 Feldspar...variety CLEA VELANDITE, pure white sheafy, masses Ce Sr CO/3 lxl £3 lx2 £5 2x2 £10 feldspar Ix½ £2.50 lxl £4...Cdsim1 ns sugary tcxtun:d mass. ½" £3 Ix I £6 Ila Ca CO/J Ix I £5 Ix2 £8 2x2 £ 16 2x3 £25 gamct grnup S ANDRADITE...vcinlets in and on matrix Ix ½ £2 Ix[ £4 lx2 £8 Ca PO/4 CO/3 F 54 APATITE Minas Gcrias Brazil Rich blue red
Catalog/List
£3 WITH UNUSUAL ELEMENTS 047 BASTNAESITE Ce La CO/3 F Rich distribution of tiny brown grains in YTTROFLUOftlTE...YTTROFLUOftlTE (Drag Norway) 1x1 £2 1x2 £4 298 BISMUTITE Bi CO/3 0 Quite rich yellow crusts on matrix. (Outpost...dark red micro's on matrix. (Getchell Mine,Humboldt Co . Nevada USA) 5mm £4 up to 1.5cm £7 242 KOLBECKITE...097 CHLOANTHITE (variety of Nickel Skutterudite) Ni Co As. Rich silvery with black native ARSENIC (Schlema...Massiac, Brouse France) 1x8 80p 077 CALLAGHANITE Cu Mg CO/3 OH Dark blue micro crystals on 7mm matrix. (Gabbs
Catalog/List
colourful Halite MINERALS 047 BASTNAESITE Ce La CO/3 F Rich distribution of tiny brown grains in YTTROFLUORITE...Gerias Brazil) £4.50 051 BURBANKITE(NaCa)(SrBa Ce) CO/3 sparse orange brown areas in matrix. (Khibiny Massif...097 CHLOANTHITE (variety of Nickel Skutterudite) Ni Co As. Rich silvery with black native ARSENIC (Schlema... (Peru) lxl £3.50 1x2 £6.00 1 238 BISMUTITE Bi CO/3 0 Quite rich yellow crusts on matrix. (Outpost...Brouse France) 1 x !4 80p 077 CALLAGHANITE Cu Mg CO/3 OH Dark blue micro crystals on 7mm matrix. (Gabbs
Catalog/List
Hnrdanger,NorwaY AKAGANElTE Nandan Meteroite, Lihu,Nandan Co, China 7 23 811 single blue 3mm crystal on quartz...Russia colourless micro crystals on 3mm matrix Cc Sr CO/3 £2.80 37 ANDALUSITE Ultcvis,Norlh Sweden ALLANITE...Gang Mincs,Swalcdale,York.shi re 927 IIARYTES Rich co verage of 2mm lustrous brown crystals all over thin...l xl £2.50 lx2 £5 BAUXITE Tcmplcpatrick,County Antrim,N.lrcland 278 BRIANYOUNGITE Brownley llill Mine...excellent LONG LASTCNG II blue PHOSPHOESCENCE FLUORECSE W Co S0/4 I-V20 £4 l x l £2 2x2 £8 l x2 (4 CALCITE Franklin
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Ti-rich clinopyroxene associated with monticellite, spinel and either forsterite or åkermanite in the Kiglapait...(Pascal et al. 2001). Septa with Al-rich pyroxene, spinel, garnet, clintonite and vesuvianite occur in a...coarse veinlets, and at places with some green spinel. In the calcite-dominant part of the specimen,...with sparse phlogopite and still rarer colorless spinel. The marble is intensely recrystallized with migration...above 760°C in VT55, 800°C in CHX. A high pressure of CO 2 is necessary to stabilize calcite with Al-rich
Catalog/List
Fcls par group APA TITE FLUORESCENT A RAGONITE Ca CO/3 ARFVEDSONIT E Amphibolc ARFVEDSONITE i\lg l\mphibolc...BARYTOCALCITE Ba Ca CO/3 BASALUJ\IINITE Al SO/4 OH BASA LIIJ\I I NITE Al SO/4 OH BASTNA ESITE Cc La CO/3 BAUXITE...BISMOCLITE Bi O Cl 57 BISMUTHINITE Bi S 498 BISMUTITE Bi CO 0 91 81.XBYITE Mn Fe O 59 BOEHMITE AI O OH 512 BORNITE­...S 70 BREWSTERITE Sr Zcolite 278 BRIANYOUNGITE Zn CO/3 SO/4 OH 513 BROCHANTITE Cu SO/4 514 BRONZITE Pyroxene...FLUORESCENT 77 CALCITE Ca CO/3 546 CALCITE Ca CO/3 63 1 CALCITE FLUORESCENT 79 CALCITE Ca CO/3 638 CALCITE FLUORESCENT
 
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