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Quartz from
Knockmahon Mine, Knockmahon, Bonmahon (Bunmahon), Waterford County, Munster, Ireland


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Quartz
Formula:SiO2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Quartz data
Locality Data:Click here to view Knockmahon Mine, Knockmahon, Bonmahon (Bunmahon), Waterford County, Munster, Ireland
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:218385
Long-form Identifier:1:3:218385:5
GUID (UUID V4):6cc5440f-ea1e-41de-83b7-f18210d0bd1f
Nearest other occurrences of Quartz
1.6km (1.0 miles) Stage mine, Knockmahon, Bonmahon (Bunmahon), Waterford County, Munster, Ireland
2.0km (1.3 miles) Tankardstown mine (Knockmahon Mine), Knockmahon, Bonmahon (Bunmahon), Waterford County, Munster, Ireland
61.2km (38.0 miles) Ballyhighland Mine (Caim), Enniscorthy, Wexford County, Leinster, Ireland
64.8km (40.3 miles) Seskinnamadra, Carlow County, Leinster, Ireland
69.4km (43.1 miles) Gortdrum Mine, Monard, Tipperary County, Munster, Ireland
69.6km (43.3 miles) Lisheen mine, Moyne, Tipperary County, Munster, Ireland
72.8km (45.2 miles) Aclare, Carlow County, Leinster, Ireland
74.1km (46.0 miles) Church Bay, Crosshaven, Cork County, Munster, Ireland
74.5km (46.3 miles) Galmoy Mine, Johnstown, Kilkenny County, Leinster, Ireland
75.7km (47.0 miles) Castlecomer Colliery, Kilkenny County, Leinster, Ireland
References
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
On the Siliceo.Fel~athie Rocks of the South of Ireland. By the Rev. SAMUEL H.~UGHTON,M.A., Fellow of Trinity...in the mining district of Bonmahon, in the south of the county of Waterford; and the recent investigations...proved so productive in the Berehaven or Allihies Mine. These rocks have a general resemblance to each...acquainted with the mining districts of Wicklow and Waterford, consider these rocks as the equivalents of their...the analyses of these rocks from the Wicklow, Waterford, and Killarney districts respectively. 1. Siliceo-felspathic
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657 35. The IGSEous ROCXS of the CoAsv of CounTY WATERFORD. By F. 1~. COWeER REED, Esq., M.A., F.G.S...692 I. I~TROJ)Vcr0RY. I~ a former paper on the Waterford coast~ the Ordovician sedimentary beds" and the...bibliography of the Lower Palmozoic rocks of County Waterford has been given in detail in my previous paper...Fossils belonging to the Geological Survey of Ireland (1895). 6 , Ancient "Volcanoesof Great Britain'...on June 1, 2016 Vo1. 56.] THE IGNEOUS ROCKS OF COUNTY W)~TERFORD. 663 Sheep Island.--Greenish felsites
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Volcanic Rocks. u Correlation of the Rocks of the Waterford Coast with those of other Areas ................paper on the 'Geological Relations of the East of Ireland,' but no details were given. In 1824 the Rev. R...y , Topography, & Antiquities of the County & City of Waterford' appeared, in which we find many references...in 1833 on the 'Geology of the District of the Knockmahon M i n e s ' is specially interesting from its...discovery of fossils in the ' slate-rock' near Knockmahon. I n 1837 Weaver 4 published a paper on the '
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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
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by the liberality and intelligence of some of our mine agents. But when the labour of preparing themmhighly...Sulphur Ores (iron pyrites) of the Vale of Ovoca, county of Wicklow. By W. J. Henwood, C.E., F.R.S., Corresponding...Kenmare mine, county of Kerry, and metallic copper precipitated on the pumps of Connorree mine, county of...garnets, from Polberrow mine, St. Agnes. By John T. Tregellas, Esq.-Pseudomorphous quartz, from Caradon, and...from Carnon mine. By Mr. Nicholas S. Cloak.-- Pearl spar and iron pyrites from Trevaskus mine. By M r .
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George mine. By John Garby, Esq., Associate of the Society.--Crystailine quartz from Knockmahon mine, county...county of Waterford. By John Petheriek, Esq.-Acieular oxide of copper from Knoekmahon mine. By Captain...from Slievnamann mountain, county of Tipperary, and sandstone from Mohir, county of Clare. By Day P. Le Grice...copper ores, and copper pyrites from Kenmare mine, county of Kerry. By Dillon Croker, Esq.--Recent sandstone...neighbourhood of Killarney, county of Kerry, from Knockmahon mine, county of Waterford, and from Cronebane,
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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
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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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a travel time to S W Britain and possibly S W Ireland of 4 to 5 hours. It may never happen but on the...Geological Survey of Ireland, Beggars Bush, DUBLIN 4 matthewparkes@gsi.ie - for Munster Bettie Higgs, Department...(Northern Ireland); The Geological Survey of Ireland; The Geological Survey of Northern Ireland, The British...Survey; The National Museums & Galleries of Northern Ireland; The Irish Salt Mining & Exploration Company; The...2000 Raising awareness of Earth Science across Ireland Chairperson: Philip Doughty; Secretary Marie Cowan
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OCCURRENCE OF SODA-FELSITES (KERATOPHYRES) IN IRELAND. SIB,—In the February Number of this MAGAZINE I...felsites that crop out in such abundance on the Waterford coast between Tramore and Ballyvoyle Head. Since...attention has been drawn to some analyses of the Waterford felsites which were made by the late Mr. John...soda-felsites among the Lower Palasozoic rocks of Co. Waterford, I venture to bring them to the notice of the...collected at the sea-cliff east of the village of Knockmahon. It is described as an elvanite. It is a compact
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OCCURRENCE OF SODA-FELSITES (KERATOPHYRES) IN IRELAND. SIB,—In the February Number of this MAGAZINE I...felsites that crop out in such abundance on the Waterford coast between Tramore and Ballyvoyle Head. Since...attention has been drawn to some analyses of the Waterford felsites which were made by the late Mr. John...soda-felsites among the Lower Palasozoic rocks of Co. Waterford, I venture to bring them to the notice of the...collected at the sea-cliff east of the village of Knockmahon. It is described as an elvanite. It is a compact
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
OCCURRENCE OF SODA-FELSITES (KERATOPHYRES) IN IRELAND. SIB,—In the February Number of this MAGAZINE I...felsites that crop out in such abundance on the Waterford coast between Tramore and Ballyvoyle Head. Since...attention has been drawn to some analyses of the Waterford felsites which were made by the late Mr. John...soda-felsites among the Lower Palasozoic rocks of Co. Waterford, I venture to bring them to the notice of the...collected at the sea-cliff east of the village of Knockmahon. It is described as an elvanite. It is a compact
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NEWS and EVENTS Mick Wolfe YEARS 1N MINERALS: IRELAND David Green• Stephen Moreton 37 PYRITE FROM...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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[Korea University] at 11:41 06 January 2015 Moonta Mine, South Australia, Australia W ere it not for a...the famous mercury mines of Terlingua, Brewster County, Texas. Of these five species, only atacamite is...localities. Consequently, an atacamite from the Moonta mine, South Australia, Australia, has been suggested...instrumentation from the Zinc Corporation of America No. 4 mine at Balmat, New York, and in association with granophyllite...vicinity of Somerville, Somerset County, New Jersey, and the Wheatley mine near Phoenixville, Pennsylvania
Journal (volume)
xix. ON THE STUDY OF GEOLOGICAL PHENOMENA IN IRELAND . By Captain Portlock , R . E ., F. G . S., M .... . . 15 OBSERVATIONS ON THE Fossil DEER OF IRELAND . (Cervus Me gaceros.) By John Hart, Esg . M ...... . 20 OBSERVATIONS ON A TRAP DISTRICT IN THE COUNTY OF LI. MERICK. By James Apjohn , Esq. M . D.,...EVIDENCES OF DILUVIAL ACTION IN THE NORTH OF IRELAND. By James Bryce, Esq., M . A. Member of the Natural..... ... NOTICE OF THE GENERAL GEOLOGY OF Erris, COUNTY OF Mayo, By P. Knight, Civil Engineer; Corresponding
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
following ' The Igneous Rocks of the Coast of County Waterford.' By F. R. Cowper Reed, Esq., M.A., F.G.S...character, and the felsitie masses of Newtown Head, Knockmahon, etc. were extruded ; probably at this time,...various types, and some are probably keratophyres. Quartz- and felspar-porphyries, augiteporphyrites, and
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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
Journal (volume)
Nickeliferous Magnetic Pyrites at Tiernakill,near Maum, county of Galway. By the Rev. Samuel Haughton, F. R. S...associated Minerals from Ross Hill, near Maum , county of Galway. By James Apjohn, M. D., Professor of...the Drift Gravel of Ireland, On the Wolfhill and Modubeagh Coal-fields, Queen's County. By George M'Dowell...District extending from Dungarvan to Annestown, county of Waterford. By W. B. Brownrigg, S.T. C.D., and Theodore...Arrangement of the simple Minerals hitherto found in Ireland. By Aquilla Smith, M. D., M. R. I. A., The Localities
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...various types, and some are probably keratophyres. Quartz- and felspar - porphyries, augite porphyrites,...igneous rocks of the neighbourhood and rounded quartz-grains also occur, but amount to only a small percentage...labradorite), orthoclase-microperthite, garnet, quartz, amphibole, magnetite, apatite, zircon, and biotite—the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
and Journal. GENTLEMEN~ THE Geological map of Ireland, which presents an epitome of my geological labours...geological positions of the strata of"several parts of Ireland, quite at variance with those assigned by me to...and myself are; 1st, he is opinion, that in the county of Kerry, south of Castlemaine Bay and the lower...See note appended to the large Geological Map of Ireland. " Downloaded by [University of Illinois at...in the centre of the gap between the cldoritie quartz rock and the old red sandstone, has been occasioned
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
occasional mudstones, sometimes associated with a quartz-porphyry, the last representing the well-known..." Contributions to the Geological Study of County Waterford. , Part I, § 1 : The Lower Palaeozoic Bedded...Garrarus and Kilfarrasy, Annestown and Dunabrattin, Knockmahon, Ballydouane Bay, and Killelton Cove to Ballyvoyle...hitherto found in the British Islands only in Waterford. The chief species are then dealt with in detail:...common ; plagioclase-felspar predominates over quartz, and that over orthoclase, but felspar-microlites
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at the demise of university geology in Northern Ireland that never again would there be doubt about the...5000 people around Ireland. There is so much going on in Earth Science in Ireland that it is difficult...Geological Survey of Ireland, Beggars Bush, DUBLIN 4 matthewparkes@gsi.ie - for Munster Bettie Higgs, Department...(Northern Ireland); The Geological Survey of Ireland; The Geological Survey of Northern Ireland, The British...Survey; The National Museums & Galleries of Northern Ireland; The Irish Salt Mining & Exploration Company; The
Journal (volume)
the carboniferous Limestone REPORT. iv of Ireland , and from the chalk , oolite, and silurian rocks...would especially call the landed proprietors of Ireland . attention of the It is to them that they must...with it . Hitherto the mineral trea sures of Ireland have been sought and won principally by English...and where chance has led to the dis covery of a mine upon the estate of an Irish proprietor, ig norance...popular in England, has been the least fostered in Ireland ; and yet it is one which has depths and shallows-interests
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Magnesia, &c. - s • , ... - . 158 - Case J. . . • QUARTz * - Rock Crystal º s - º 161 . 158 to 158 *•...- 160 - f As - 1 / . . . A Case K. -> QUARTz, continued Chalcedony - 161 to 163 • º •...the floor of the principal room is devoted to the mine rals, and to their application in the arts. In...aluminium. 3 NATIVE COPPER. Waterford, Wicklow, and Cork, in Ireland ; and an estimate of the importance...Cornwall and Devon Northern Counties Wales - Ireland - 190 - 10 20 239 210,947 14,247 8 -
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Pentireglaze mine, St. Minver, Cornwall with crystals to 32mm. Specimen from the collection of the County Museum...from Force Crag mine, Braithwaite, Cumbria (See Mineral News). Figure Figure 3. Quartz crystal 40 mm"in...mm"in length from South Crafty mine, Cornwall. Manchester Museum specimen purchased from the estate of...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
 
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