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


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Dolomite
Formula:CaMg(CO3)2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Chalcociteā“˜2 photos of Dolomite associated with Chalcocite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Dolomite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Tynagh Mine, Killimor, Galway County, Connacht, Ireland
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:294827
Long-form Identifier:1:3:294827:0
GUID (UUID V4):a5a75ed0-37b4-4fc4-81dd-379aa088a821
Nearest other occurrences of Dolomite
41.6km (25.8 miles) ā“˜Renville (Rinville) Mine, Renville, Galway County, Connacht, Ireland
42.0km (26.1 miles) ā“˜Mogul Mine (Garryard Mine; International Mogul Mines), Silvermines District, Tipperary County, Munster, Ireland
42.7km (26.5 miles) ā“˜Ballynoe mine (Magcobar mine), Silvermines District, Tipperary County, Munster, Ireland
43.0km (26.7 miles) ā“˜Knockanroe mine, Silvermines District, Tipperary County, Munster, Ireland
43.0km (26.7 miles) ā“˜Ballygown South Mine, Silvermines District, Tipperary County, Munster, Ireland
65.7km (40.8 miles) ā“˜Galmoy Mine, Johnstown, Kilkenny County, Leinster, Ireland
66.1km (41.1 miles) ā“˜Lisheen mine, Moyne, Tipperary County, Munster, Ireland
68.1km (42.3 miles) ā“˜Garrycam deposit (Keel Mine), Keel, Ballymahon, Longford County, Leinster, Ireland
72.1km (44.8 miles) ā“˜Courtbrown Zn-Pb deposit, Askeaton, Limerick County, Munster, Ireland
72.1km (44.8 miles) ā“˜Glengowla East Mine, Glengowla, Oughterard, Connemara, Galway County, Connacht, Ireland
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
now-closed Harborside mine and nearby Rosier mine, Brooksville, Hancock County, Maine. It is, however...sparingly in ores of the Tucson mine in the Leadville district of Lake County, Colorado (Eckel 1997). In Arizona...from two localities. One is at Bisbee, Cochise County, where it has been identified widely throughout...vesicles in the Turtle Mountain area of Graham County (Bideaux, Williams, and Thomssen 1960). The most...microcrystals is the 3 Metals mine in the Weepah district of Esmeralda County. Utah boosts two specimen-quality
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Table 3. Introduction The lower Carboniferous of Ireland is host to a large number of base metal deposits...Ballyvergin Moyvoughly NewtownCashel Lisheen Silvermines Tynagh Galmoy Magcobar Ballinalack Rickardstown Courtbrown...Mineralisation in the Waulsortian (Lisheen, Silvermines, Tynagh, Galmoy) is all intimately associated with faulting...and occurrence of extensive tabular bodies of dolomite matrix breccia (Fig. 4a), texturally somewhat...breccias are grossly concordant sheets whereas at Tynagh dolomite forms discordant barren zones. Upper parts
Journal (issue)
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Structures and Genesis of the Lead-Zinc-Deposit Tynagh, Ireland By D. B.IEDEL,Aachen ~) With 20 figures Zusammenfassung...Zusammenfassung Aus der Lagerst~itte Tynagh werden zahlreiche sediment~ire, diagenetische und organogene...den Kreuzungspunkt der E - W verlaufenden North Tynagh Fault mit dieser N-S-Struktur gebunden. Die A u...and organic origin oceuring in the Pb-Zn-deposit Tynagh are presented. Different facts suggest the presence...fluids is located at the cross of the E - W North Tynagh Fault and this postulated N-S-structure. The environment
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
Journal (issue)
., No 1. Mimetite, variety Campylite, Dry Gill mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria . _ ... Specimen: 135...J Mason -------- 42 -------MICROMINERALS from IRELAND G RybackĀ· S Moreton BOOK REVIEWS -----58----CLASSIFIED...Manual of the mineralogy of Great Britain (Ind Ireland Van Voorsc, London. HEDDLE, M.F. (1887) On the...(Telephone 0872 223227). August 2nd: Visit to Dufron Mine, Dufton, near Appleby. Meet at Dufton Village municipal...01-4171-680). October 4th: Visit to Force Crag Mine, Keswick. Meet at Braithwaite Church, by Coledale
Book
GEOLOGY AND GENESIS OF MINERAL DEPOSITS IN IRELAND ā– ā–  ā€” <.d ā–  /A-- 'W .. 1 Edited by CJ. Andrew... ā–  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 (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 (article/letter/editorial)
concentrations indicate that the main ore fluid at Tynagh and Silvermines was seawater that had evaporated...prompted by the discovery of the major deposits at Tynagh (1961) and Silvermines (1963), which contained...Russell, 1987), Tynagh (Banks and Russell, 1992), and from Ballinasloe, close to Tynagh (Wilkinson and...produced pink saddle dolomite and calcite in vugs and fractures. This ā€œhydrothermal dolomiteā€ is principally...evaporite deposition (Fig. 1) in northwest and central Ireland (Phillips and Sevastopulo, 1986), and also in the
Catalog/List
crystalline areas in white Barytes. (Whitesmith mine, Strontian, Argyllshire,Scotland) lxl Ā£5 lx2 Ā£10...matrix , also some blue Cyanotrichite (Salsigne Mine, France) 2x2 Ā£38 TOURMALINE pale blue clear terminated...crystal about 20mm high and 4m across. Santa Rosa Mine,ltambacuri, Minas Gerias, Brazil Ā£12 GALENA octahedral...8mm scattered on large lx2 matrix, also minor dolomite micros and chalcopyrite-pyrite. (Missouri USA...5mm size, with minor quartz and pyrite. ( Huaron Mine, cerro de Pasco,Peru) 2.5xl.5 Ā£10 PECTOLITE white
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
for the Genesisof the TynaghBaseMetal Deposit,Ireland ANTHONYMARKBOAST l, Instituteof Geological Sciences...microcrystalline sphalerite,galena,barite, and dolomite within a dilatant fracture systemthat developedas...more than 600 m to the north of Introduction THE Tynagh Pb-Zn-Cu-Ag orebody is one of the an inlier of...of banded hematite and chert with intercalated Ireland (Fig. 1). The hypogeneore is hostedby a crinoidal...Geologicoutline and principalbasemetal depositsof Ireland. Ty = Tynagh;Ab = Abbeytown;Go -- Gortdrum;Ke = Keel;
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 Ā·r. and. more recently. Ireland became a major player in world zinc produ.:tion
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
AlthoughcompleteX-ray patterns vein fillingsin fracturedKnox Dolomite(dolostone) were not obtainedfrom either sample(somereflecin...the veinsis rather simple.The major mineral is dolomite, which occursin white to dardsusedwere Cu2Sfor...averagecomposition which grew in the void spacesbetweenthe dolomite as follows:Cu 48.86 percent, As 18.02 percent...Average 48.86 18.02 0.54 31.68 clude the Brewer mine, SouthCarolina (Bell et al., 1980), someother gold...and the Aubrey mine, Cartersville district, Georgia (Robert Laurence,pers. commun., Ireland, which isa stratabound
Report (chapter)
base metal deposits in the Rathdowney Trend, Ireland G. D. S E V A S T O P U L O 1 & P. R E D M O N...1Department of Geology, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland 2 Geological and Environmental Science Department...carbonates of Lower Carboniferous (Dinantian) age in Ireland is in most deposits younger than their mainly Tournaisian-aged...younger parts of the Vis~an, later Vis6an rocks in Ireland should be considered to be potential targets for...for exploration. Exploration for base metals in Ireland during the last 40 years has led to the discovery
Catalog/List
Afghanistan. 29x29x26mm. Ā£32 1 ARSENOPYRITE Yaogangxian Mine, Cheng Zhu, Hunan Province, China. Crystals to 23mm...Weardale, County Durham. Crystals to 11mm. 84x73x70mm. Ā£58 3 NATROLITE& MESOLITE Camlough, County Antrim...Antrim, Northern Ireland. 61x57x53mm. Ā£24 5 COBALTO DOLOMITE & KOLWEZITE, Kakanda,Zaire. Crystals to 8mm...Okurusu Mine, Naimiba. Crystals to 25mm. 52x51x42mm. Ā£72 9AZURITE Tynagh Mine, County Galway, Ireland. RW...Ā£38 13 GALENA, SPHALERITE & DOLOMITE, Silvermines, Co. lipperary, Ireland. RW Barstow green label. Galena
Catalog/List
Order Only Minerals principally from FRANCE and IRELAND. All the min~rals were collected by me personally...Barytes, with some minor Malachite. (Tynagh, Loughrea, County Galway, Eire) 1 x l l 2p. 1 x 2 30p. 2 x 2...its fine lustre. Selected pieces. (Tynagh, Loughrea, County Galway, Eire) 1 x 2 Z0p. 2 x 2 40p. 2 x 4...with pretty iridescence; green, reddish, etc. (County Cork, Eire) 1 x 1 5p. 1 x 2 1 Op. 2 x 2 20p. lb...pieces with very few crystals showing. (Glandore, County Cork, Eire) approx, Ā½x Ā½75p. 1 x 1 Ā£ 1. 30. 25
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
framework within which studies of ore-related dolomite and dolomite cements may be placed. Fluid inclusion data...low-temperature, higher salinity fluid found in saddle dolomite; 2) a low-temperature, lower salinity fluid limited...ore-associated minerals and postmineralization dolomite (Type 1) and in ore-stage carbonates and sphalerite...USA I. D. Somerville University College, Dublin, Ireland W. R. Wright Bureau of Economic Geology, Jackson...metal sulfide deposits including those at Navan, Tynagh, Silvermines, Lisheen and Galmoy (Hitzman and Beaty
Thesis/Dissertation
STUDY OF BASE METAL OCCURRENCES IN WEST-CENTRAL IRELAND by JOHN ANGUS GREIG A THESIS SUBMITTED TO THE...Lead Isotope Study of Base Metal Occurrences Ireland", submitted by John Angus Greig in partial fulfilĀ¬...localities in west-central Eire. include the Mogul, Tynagh and Gortdrum mines. These All except 4 deposits...Consolidated Mogul Mine .. Tynagh Mine . Gortdrum Mine . 13 17 20 Riofinex Mine . Minor Base Metal...Carboniferous stratigraphy and ore horizons at Mogul, Tynagh, Gortdrum and Riofinex mines 1966) Fig. 1 3
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
in Cu-polymetallic and Znā€“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 Znā€“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 chalcopyriteā€“tennantite occurs along pressure...Cu-polymetallic deposits of Ireland, and the penecontemporaneous Znā€“Pb deposits of Central Ireland may be because
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Furthermore, there are additional nongeologic resources in mine dumps, flotation tailings, and smelter residues...easy to recognize. However, the supergene ores at Tynagh and Silvermines in the Irish Midlands and some...nonsulfide Zn open-pit mine of Boleslaw, Poland. c. ā€œCalaminaā€ sample from the old Czerna mine, Poland. The sample...Selected Examples of European Nonsulfide Zinc Deposits Mine (district) Country Production history Style of...Dejonghe et al. (1993) Tynagh Ireland Morrissey and Whitehead (1971) Ireland Supergene oxidation and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the Waulsortian-hosted deposits farther south (Tynagh, Silvermines, Lisheen, and Galmoy). Subeconomic...deposits and prospects are widely observed in dolomite (and sometimes calcite) cements within Courceyan-Arundianāˆ’age...Lisheen, and Galmoy, and the historic mines at Tynagh, Silvermines, and Abbeytown, anomalous concentrations...description of the geology and mineralization in Ireland is beyond the scope of this contribution and only...2001). Sulfides appear to generally postdate early dolomite cements and are themselves accompanied by a variety
Report (chapter)
Carboniferous-hosted base metal mineral deposits in Ireland J. D. J O H N S T O N l*, D. C O L L E R 2, G....College, Dublin 2, Ireland 2 ERA-Maptec, 5 South Leinster Street, Dublin 2, Ireland Abstract: Explorationists...transtensional movement. The Lower Carboniferous of Ireland is host to a large number of base metal deposits...2015 BASE METAL Table 1. MINERAL DEPOSITS, IRELAND Tonnages and grades of the main Irish sediment-hosted...Ballyvergin Moyvoughly N'town-Cashel Lisheen Silvermines Tynagh Galmoy Magcobar Ballinalack Rickardstown Courtbrown
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Isotopes and the Origin of the Silvermines Deposits, Ireland P. G. Coomer Department of Earth Sciences, Leeds...E S / ~,,'* t ' - , ~ S H A L L E E ~ ā€¢ ... / i ,MINE ~(-q.l~j~ ā€¢ - ~ (abandoned) ~V~LLAGE ~ SILVERMINES...Lower Carboniferous carbonate rocks in Central Ireland in the last few years has aroused considerable...6-- . - - : - _ \ - _ : , 38-.- DOLOMITE I00 200 FEET t 50 DOLOMITE (BRECCIA) LowER ~ I UPPER "...and disseminations mainly limited to the Lower Dolomite unit (Fig. 2) and closely following the Silvermines
Catalog/List
JULY/AUGUST 1'994 1. ANATASE. Virtuous Lady Mine, Tavistock, Devon. A greenish matrix of compact...(b) 1 xl 30x20x20mm. Ā£4. 3. APATITE. Panasqueria Mine, Beira-Beixa, Portug:il. Intergrown group of pale...FRANCOLI'I'E) ON .f-ID1ATITE. Levant Section, Geevor Mine, St Just,. rix showing bands of massive l:>rown...7ļæ½:; Ā·_ Ā· BARITE ON CHALCOPYRITE. Mount Wellington Mine, '11Ā·,elve Heads, Cornwall. A soliq mass of tarnished...Intergrown mass of reddishĀ·ironstained BARITE, Sharkharn Mine, Brixharn, le hernatite matrix.Ā·Ā· cockScomb barite
 
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