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Bitumen from
Abbeytown Mine & Quarry, Ballysadare, Sligo County, Connacht, Ireland


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Petroleum var: Bitumen
Comments:Occasional, hard, shiny black blobs with calcite and sulphides.
Confirmation
Validity:Confirmed
Confirmation Methods:Visually Identified
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Bitumen data
Locality Data:Click here to view Abbeytown Mine & Quarry, Ballysadare, Sligo County, Connacht, Ireland
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:417828
Long-form Identifier:1:3:417828:6
GUID (UUID V4):b0d7365e-45f9-41e4-bef9-c7ae4aec9565
Nearest other occurrences of Bitumen
4.9km (3.0 miles) Aughamore Quarry (Maye Quarry; "Achenmore Quarry"), Aughamore, Sligo County, Connacht, Ireland
62.7km (38.9 miles) Moneen Quarry, Castlebar, Mayo County, Connacht, Ireland
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Queen's University, Belfast BT7 INN, Northern Ireland, UK (Received October 29, 1990; revised and accepted...Carboniferous of Ireland. They include metal enrichments within black shales, bitumen nodules, bituminous...Visran). 1. Introduction The Carboniferous rocks of Ireland (Fig. 1 ) contain numerous ore deposits and other...the world's largest base-metal deposits in the Zn mine at Navan (Ashton et al., 1986). The Carboniferous...limestones. In addition, migrated carbonaceous matter (bitumen, pyrobitumen) is recorded from several of the ore
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Queen's University, Belfast BT7 1NN, Northern Ireland, UK (Received October 29, 1990; revised and accepted...Queens's University, Belfast BT7 INN, N o r t h e r n Ireland, UK. of bitumens rich in a N i - C o - B i - S...locations of bitumens listed in Table 1. Samples of bitumen are commonly small ( < 1 g) and the determination...metalliferous inclusions are clearly metal-enriched. Bitumen samples from Carboniferous-hosted ore deposits...in the ore deposits. For comparative purposes, bitumen samples were also collected from some localities
Journal (issue)
MINES Stephen Moreton • David Green 34 ABBEYTOWN MINE AND QUARRY Stephen Moreton • John Lawson • Robert...Fieldwork was unable to provide corroboration as the mine levels are now inaccessible and little of note remains...ation in Russell ociety ewsletter 41 (2002). Shap Quarry in Cumbria held a special fascination for Max and...WIRTH, M. M. (1989) Native silver from Red Gill mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria.Jouma/ of the RussellSociety... WIRTH, M.M. (1995) Bavcnite from Shap granite quarry, Cumbria, England.Jo11ma/ of tl1eRussell Sociel)I6(
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
stratabound and sometimes stratiform mineralisation (Abbeytown, Navan), while a third group is associated closely...Table 3. Introduction The lower Carboniferous of Ireland is host to a large number of base metal deposits...Aherlow Mallow Gortdrum Tatestown Oldcastle Keel Abbeytown Clogherboy Ballyvergin Moyvoughly NewtownCashel...is widespread throughout the southern half of Ireland as the Cork Red Marble (Shearley 1989) and equivalent...above and beneath it. In the North West Basin, at Abbeytown, the Zn/Pb ratio also increases upward and barite
Catalog/List
crystals on dar~ matrix. (not radioactive) (Leonie Mine, huerbach, Oberpfal Genany) Sto 10mmf3 l/2in;; ES...Silicate pinkish massiv~ with black Allanite (Bastnas Mine, Riddarhytt2n Vastm~~l2nd,Sw2deri) Cu/2 Se 039...rnetallic spots in matrix (LookoutPass. Tooele County, Ut2h) lxl f7 ½ ins f4 478 ZIRCON Zr Si0/4 singl2...(Ti Nb 0 rich black nasses in matrix (Karnasurt Mine, Revda, Kola Peninsula, Russia) lxl E2.50 lx2 ins...PO/~ • yellowish plates on mauvEUssingit~ (UmDa Mine, Reuda, Kola Peninsula • Russia) (6a pure plate
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
Book
42-85808-6 1. Ores - Sampling and estimation. 2. Bitumen - Analysis. 3. Ore deposits. I. Parnell, John....Characterization, and Genesis of Natural Solid Bitumen (Migrabitumen) H. Jacob.......................... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 153 Bitumen and Dispersed Organic Matter Related to Mineralization............ 171 The Association of Cinnabar and Bitumen in Mercury Deposits of the California Coast Ranges...netic Relationships of Vein Pyrobitumen in the Panel Mine, Elliot Lake Uranium District, Ontario, Canada J
Report (volume)
Department of Geology, University College, Dublin, Ireland 1996 Published by The Geological Society London...Carboniferous-hosted base metal mineral deposits in Ireland SHEARLEY, E., REDMOND, P., KING, M. & GOODMAN,...of the Lisheen Zn-Pb-Ag Deposit, Co. Tipperary, Ireland HOLLIS, C. & WALKDEN, G. The use of burial diagenetic... H. E. A. Late Vis6an buildups at Kingscourt, Ireland: possible precursors for Upper Carboniferous bioherms...systems and coastal zone sedimentation in northwest Ireland Carbonate platforms and ramps RIZZI, G. & BRAITHWAITE
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 ·r. and. more recently. Ireland became a major player in world zinc produ.:tion
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GEOLOGY AND IRELAND : vVith Physical geography and its geological foundations . by w. E. NEVILL....subjects. Because of the importance of agriculture in Ireland, a con1plete chapter is devoted to the country's...possible from the rocks and physical landscape of Ireland ; in fact a maximum usage is made of features of...before the date shown above LANCASHIRE COUNTY LIBRARY COUNTY HALL, PRESTON Digitized by the Internet...org/details/geologyireland0000wene GEOLOGY AND IRELAND GEOLOGY AND IRELAND PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY AND ITS GEOLOGICAL
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MineralogicalRecord.com I IIMORIITE-(Y) EUROPE FRANCE Trimouns quarry, Luzenac, Ariege. Operated for talc since the beginning...beginning of the 20th century, the Trimouns quarry became well known to collectors around 1990 for the...long (Marty, 2004 ). AFRICA widely in Litchfield County, where good crystals were taken from quartz veins...region (Brunet, I 977b ). NEW YORK Amity, Orange County. At many isolated collected sites between the towns...Litchfield County. Ilmenite masses and crystals from somewhere near Washington, Litchfield County, were described
Book (volume)
explain the ideas of those who have worked on it (and mine, where they differ from those readily available...organization differs from one to the next. In Ireland, the geology of the ore-bearing part of that island...excludes for the purposes of this Volume) Northern Ireland) is discussed briefly and short descriptions of...doing. For Great Britain (again excluding Northern Ireland), the tin-tungstencopper deposits of Cornwall are...detail here are located in the following countries: Ireland England Scotland 3 7 1 Wales Norway Sweden 1
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volcanoes in North Wales, Pembrokeshire and Southern Ireland, in fact midway between an island arc situation...Caledonides —40. of Scud .< d.. mid and iiuimid. Ireland: Scottish Jour. Geulugy, Geology, 7, 219 219-40...margin of the early Calcdonidcs of Scotland and Ireland. Scottish Jour. Geology, 7, 369-72. Shotton, F...progress) report that the Shap Granite in the Red Shap quarry is typically magnetized with shallow inclinations...(Rose and Dunham in press) from the Askham Shale Quarry [2175 7540] and D. bifidus Zone microfaunas have
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volumes : @ Austria, Federal Republic of Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands, Switzerland, United Kingdom ...countries Austria, Federal Republic of Germany, Ireland, The Netherlands, Switzerland, United Kingdom ...Midland Valley of Scotland and its continuation in Ireland is its most prominent feacture; it is found again...has been worked extensively at the famous Bleiberg mine. 5. The occurrence 62 Nétsch near Carboniferous...important open-pit various lower Carboniferous 64 mine. strata some Among bonate rocks (magnesites)
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' •' Austria, Federal Republic of Germany, . Ireland, The Netherlands, Switzerland, United Kingdom •...volumes : • Austria, Federal Republic of Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands, Switzerland, United Kingdom ...countries Austria, Federal Republic of Germany, Ireland, The Netherlands, Switzerland, United Kingdom ... . . . . . 125 Publications . . . . . . ' IRELAND Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..... . . . . . . . . . 133 Tectonic History of Ireland ...................................... -. . .
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abundant in arsenopyriterich samples from Wongabah Mine, characteristically forming aggregates of fibrous...(1986) of a fresh euhedral crystal from the Kaneuchi Mine, Kyoto Prefecture, shows only slight compositional...paragenesis. Microscopic observations (from the Faraday Mine) show the structural interrelationship between uraninite...cases. Huttl (1963) reports that "the Getchell Au mine, Potosi mining district, Humboldt Country, Nevada...Nevada, USA, is at present the second largest mine in the USA worked for gold along. The ore bodies are vein
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deposit, ore deposit, mineral occurrence, prospect, mine, reserves and resources are familiar, but more rigorous...because the samples examined were collected from a mine depth of about 100 m. The d18OH2O trend reflects...pages that follow, I draw from an earlier book of mine (Pirajno 1992), augmented by more recent data from...from a kaolinitic precursor: evidence from the Geco Mine, Manitouwadge, Ontario. Econ Geol 78:422–437 Stanton...Zaaiplaats mineralisation styles. Sketch based on Mine handout and Pollard et al. (1988) zone. The lenticular
 
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