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Bornite from
Letter Mine, Letter, Mizen Peninsula, Cork County, Munster, Ireland


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Bornite
Formula:Cu5FeS4
Confirmation
Validity:Confirmed
Confirmation Methods:Visually Identified
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Bornite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Letter Mine, Letter, Mizen Peninsula, Cork County, Munster, Ireland
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:703425
Long-form Identifier:1:3:703425:1
GUID (UUID V4):5589c26c-ee0e-4248-9064-75f90e99e1e3
Nearest other occurrences of Bornite
3.1km (1.9 miles) ⓘDereenalomane Mine, Mizen Peninsula, Cork County, Munster, Ireland
4.2km (2.6 miles) ⓘBallycummisk Mine, Audley Mines, Ballydehob, Mizen Peninsula, Cork County, Munster, Ireland
4.2km (2.6 miles) ⓘCoosheen Mine (Cosheen Mine; Skull Bay Mine), Coosheen, Schull, Mizen Peninsula, Cork County, Munster, Ireland
4.8km (3.0 miles) ⓘCappagh Mine (Cappaghglass; Audley; Great Cappagh), Audley Mines, Ballydehob, Mizen Peninsula, Cork County, Munster, Ireland
17.3km (10.7 miles) ⓘDhurode Mine (Carrigacat Mine), Mizen Peninsula, Cork County, Munster, Ireland
21.2km (13.1 miles) ⓘBrow Head Mine (Mullavoge Mine), Mizen Peninsula, Cork County, Munster, Ireland
27.4km (17.0 miles) ⓘGlandore Mine (Aghatubrid Mine; Glendore Mine), Glandore, Cork County, Munster, Ireland
37.9km (23.5 miles) ⓘArdtully Mine (Cloontoo Mine), Kenmare Mines, Kenmare, Kerry County, Munster, Ireland
52.6km (32.7 miles) ⓘRoss Island, Lough Leane, Killarney, Kerry County, Munster, Ireland
88.4km (55.0 miles) ⓘTullacondra Cu-Ag Deposit, Mallow, Cork County, Munster, Ireland
References
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
remobilization from stratiform red bed deposits, SW County Cork, Ireland Ni Wen ~, A. J. Boyce 2, A. E. Fallick z...Polymetallic major veins of the West Carbery district (County Cork) are compared with the nearby stratiform-disseminated...Remobilisation aus stratiformen Rotsedimenten, S W County Cork, Irland 74 Ni Wen et al. Polymetallische Erzg/inge...("major veins") des westlichen Carbery Distriktes (County Cork) werden mit kleineren Gfingchen ("minor veins")...this area (the West Carbery district of SW County Cork, Ireland), the host rocks are Devonian siliciclastics
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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
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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...Wilson Formerly: Geological Survey of Northern Ireland, Belfast; presently: Institute of Geological Sciences
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Investigation of Gilley Fluorspar Deposits in Cherokee County, Alabama, by James F. O'Neill. It is interesting... 50 miles northeast of Birmingham, in Cherokee County, located in West 1/2, West V2 of Section 16, Township...associated with faulting — Georgia Mineral Society News Letter, March-April 1950, p. 63. Arizona—J. W. Bradley...mingled with the barite. California—R & M received a letter dated March 22, 1950, from R. F. Henley, 4075 19th...crystal'ized cinnabar which comes from the Culver-Baer mine, Sonoma Co., Calif. Colorado—An interesting article
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feet above water level. Site: Arizona's Hillside mine, producer of gold, silver, lead, and zinc. The source... found at the Hillside mine at the same time. (Editor's Note: The above mine is at Hillside, Yavapai...mountain cork, a variety of amphibole. In California, mountain cork is found in whitish, cork-like masses...378 is undoubtedly the Hahns Peak area in Routt County, northern Colorado. It is not usually especially...success. He has cabochons of moonstone from Stephens County, which are unusually good ; also, rutilated rose
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from R. A. Richards, Box 44, Morristown, Ariz. His letter dated Jan. 14, 1952, reads as follows: "I am sending...World News on Mineral Occurrences very much." A 2nd letter dated Feb. 18, 1952, gives more information on...xline—crystalline A 3rd letter dated May 5, 1952 reads: "Just got a letter from Prof. Richard Pearl...following most interesting items taken from his letter of April 10, 1952: "Last September the 9th, 1951...Diamond Mines, at (or near) Murfreesboro, Pike County, Arkansas. At the mines, I was kindly given permission
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
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occurring together) from the Calumet and Hecla mine. Excepment in the oxide zones of a variety of metal...Copper Falls mine, associations and include those containing other silver minerals, Keweenaw County. barite...major Acton mine, York County, the Deer collections. One state that is draped in a silIsle mine, and the...the Sullivan mine ver-lined history is Colorado, with a pro(King and Foord 1994). Silver duction of more...more than 750 million ounces to occurred in a mine about a mile its credit. Fine wire- and crystallized-silver
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FRONT COVER: Vanadinite, probably from High Pim mine, Wanlockhead, Dumfriesshire, Scotland. Orangybrown...Botallackite from Dooneen mine, Allihies, County Cork, Republic of Ireland S. Moreton and P. Aspen Cinnabar...and D. B. Johnson 40 The botanical interest of mine spoil heaps - the lichen story 0. W Purvis 45 ...mid-part of this century, when there were still mine managers and miners to talk to, and when you could...he replied. He told me that the mine up the valley was the Bodannon mine, and that there were a number
Report (issue)
OF MINERALS AND MINERAL LOCALITIES ALLANITE Inyo County: 1, Coarse grained allanite occurs in a pegmatite...quadrangle, McAllister (4) p. 52. Los Angeles County: Additional reference, Patchick (2) p. 237. This...diagrams. 1, AMPHIBOLES ACTINOLITE San Bernardino County: 3, Additional Wrightwood, reported by Berkholz...locality in alluvium, near 21. HORNBLENDE Inyo County: 1, In large prismatic crystals up to 2.5 inches...Panamint Range, McAllister (4) p. 52. San Bernardino County: 2, Pargasite variety of hornblende occurs in coarsely
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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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some dainty little greenish xls of dioptase. Their letter of July 24, 1952, reads: "The enclosed specimen...when a new pocket was broken into in the Mammoth Mine, Tiger, (Pinal Company), Arizona." ARKANSAS — Another...William M. Johnson, R.F.D. 6, Knoxville, Tenn. In his letter, dated Aug. 15, 1952, he writes: "A quicksilver...locality in the State is Russell Gulch in Gilpen County. A small but very fine crystal group from Russell... June 26-29, 1952. CONNECTICUT — The old copper mine near Bristol, Hartford Co., Conn., used to produce
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Mediterranean to Iberia, southern France, Britain, and Ireland, the Eastern Alps and central Europe, as far as...region is examined, as is the survival of early mine archaeology in different geological settings. Survey... amongst others. These include my research in Ireland and similar studies elsewhere, work that continues...application of lead isotope analysis to identify early mine sources pioneered by Noel Gale, Zoa Stos-Gale,...the work of other pioneers across Europe, from Ireland to Russia. Their work laid the foundation for the
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2021 Articles The Dragon's Lair gold, Beta Hunt mine, Western Australia ...............................M. Megaw & B. Lees Larkin's quarry, Connemara, Ireland ..................................... ...........specimen), 49.5 cm (over 49 kg), from the Beta Hunt mine, Western Australia. Photo by Robert Mosely (The...Forrest was born April 21, 1932 in Willits, Mendocino County, California, the son of Helen and Forrest E. Cureton...2007 he was a full-time volunteer at the Empire Mine State Historic Park in Grass Valley, California
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
also present. "Specimen comes from a mine somewhere in Yuma County, Arizona."—on label. ARKANSAS—In the...of Diamonds is an abandoned diamond mine (the only diamond mine in the U.S.) that has been opened up...up as a tourist attraction. W e have a letter from Howard A. Millar, Manager of Crater of Diamonds, though...too late to get in the last issue. Part of the letter reads :"You might be interested in knowing that...(west of the city). That would be in Jefferson County."—letter dated—June 31, 1956, from Marie Kennedy, 375
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Mountain, Trinity County, Calif."—on label. Island Mountain, in the S / W corner of Trinity County, is in N ...cavities. Calcite, chalcocite, malachite, azurite, bornite, and a few unknowns occurred with the siderite...identified? 96 xline—crystalline ph—phosphoresces —letter dated Dec. 11, 1964 from Richard Conrod, Jr., 300...Middletown and Meriden are in northern New Haven County in central Connecticut. ILLINOIS—From George A...area."— on label. Niota is in northern Hancock County of western Illinois. INDIANA—"I found a small new
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Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino...Articles Famous mineral localities: The Bristol copper mine, Connecticut......................................Thirty-two, Number Six by J. A. Mandarino COVER: BORNITE crystal, 1.6 cm, on quartz , from Dzezkazgan, Kazakhstan...in the U.S.A. notesfrom th r EDITORS OLD YUMA MINE Another great mineral locality has now been closed...longfamous Old Yuma mine near Tucson (see R. L. Jones, “Famous mineral localities: the Old Yuma mine,” in vol.
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
chalcopyrite, galena, acanthite, sternbergite, enargite, bornite, covellite, calcite, dolomite, siderite, barite...tennantite crystals from the Champion lode, Clear Creek County, Colorado. Dave Bunk specimen, Jeff Scovil photo...tennantite crystals with quartz from the El Cobre mine, ConcepciĂłn del Oro, Zacatecas, Mexico. Cal and...tennantite specimen from the Longfellow mine, Red Mountain Pass, Ouray County, Colorado. Dave Bunk specimen, Jeff...the Freeland lode near Idaho Springs, Clear Creek County. Here, tennantite crystals from 3 to 6 mm on edge
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Diamond Cave, Ark. Diamond Cave, located in Newton County, near Jasper, A r k , is said to rank with America's...of my house on the ucean beach."—paragraph in a letter, dated Aug. 5th, 1953, from T. B. Gillespie, Star...from Pyramid Lake, Nev. Pyramid Lake in Washoe County, is the largest lake in Nevada. From the south...Gem Club, 298 S. Taylor St., Fallon, Nev. In her letter, dated Aug. 31, 1953, Mrs. Harry Ringstrom, representing...specimens and a good sample of fossil sand. In his letter, dated July 20, 1953, Mr. Williams writes: "The
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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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
164 ─ 167, 2009 164 LETTER Bi-bearing and REE-free zálesíite from the Fuka mine, Okayama Prefecture...limestone near gehlenite spurrite skarns at the Fuka mine, Okayama Prefecture, Japan. The mineral is pale...silky to vitreous luster. Andradite, aragonite, bornite, cahnite, chalcocite, chalcopyrite, conichalcite...(OH) + 3 (H2O). Zálesíite collected from the Fuka mine contains Bi and is free of REE. The unit cell parameters...Keywords: Zálesíite, Mixite group, Bi, Arsenate, Fuka mine, Hydrothermal solution - INTRODUCTION 1996) are
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to 22nvn from 3 ---- - - ----- Cook's Kitchen mine, Cornwall. Spedmen In the collection of the Royal...SOCIETY Peter Moore • John Pearce 10 FORCE CRAG MINE Dtlf.!idGreen • DavidMcCa/lum • Mike Wood 15 MINERAL...through the appropriate channels. YSTRAD EINION MINE John Mason • Steve Rust 37 BOOK REVIEWS 45 CLASSIFIED...cm olivenite specimen, said to be from Tincroft mine, but more probably from either Wheal Gorland or...classic Cornish copper secondaries at Ting Tang mine. This includes fine specimens of that most desirable
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Tim Neall Mud-filled fluorite vugs in Greenlaws mine, Weardale, Co. Durham Stephen Moreton Gearksutite...lding and Andy G. Tindle Cotunnite from Penrhyn Du Mine, Gwynedd, Wales Neil Hubbard and David I. Green...An update of the supergene mineralogy of Hilton mine, Scordale, Cumbria Trevor F Bridges and David I...fluorite from Rampgill, Coalcleugh and Bameycraig mine system, Nenthead, Cumbria, England - an update Trevor...wide geographical range throughout Britain and Ireland. Frank Ince provides a comprehensive account of
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MMS FIELD TRIP TO MICHIGAN'S UPPER PENINSULA By FLOYD N. MORTENSON 69 West End Avenue, Pontiac, Michigan...planning a vacation field trip to Michigan's Upper Peninsula during the last half of July and that we would...George E. Bishop, Secretary-Manager of the Upper Peninsula Development Bureau of Michigan, Marquette, Michigan...group to visit the surface plants of the Mather Mine. One group visited the " A " Shaft in Ishpeming...on the "cage" and descend into the depths of the mine several thousand feet below. Outside the building
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old mine there (the Lucky Cuss) hoping for another strike. I brought back some rocks from the mine—sending...displays are to be found on the dumps of the Evergreen Mine, at Apex, (Gilpin Co.), Colo. The ghost town is...to be found on dumps are: malachite, azurite, bornite, enargite, chalcopyrite, covellite, cuprite. A...conglomerates in fields and in gravel bars here in Putnam County, Indiana."—item received from Walter Reeves, R3...prehnite. A most interesting find. other collector."-—letter dated June 8, 1961, from John Wierengo, Rt 1, Box
 
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