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Bornite from
Galmoy Mine, Johnstown, Kilkenny County, Leinster, Ireland


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Bornite
Formula:Cu5FeS4
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Bornite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Galmoy Mine, Johnstown, Kilkenny County, Leinster, Ireland
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:953920
Long-form Identifier:1:3:953920:4
GUID (UUID V4):8f992329-0f13-4002-8c75-52e6f9f61018
Nearest other occurrences of Bornite
8.2km (5.1 miles) ā“˜Lisheen mine, Moyne, Tipperary County, Munster, Ireland
50.7km (31.5 miles) ā“˜Gortdrum Mine, Monard, Tipperary County, Munster, Ireland
61.3km (38.1 miles) ā“˜Denison deposit, Aherlow, Limerick County, Munster, Ireland
65.7km (40.8 miles) ā“˜Tynagh Mine, Killimor, Galway County, Connacht, Ireland
88.4km (54.9 miles) ā“˜Ballycoog, Gold Mines River, Croghan Kinshela Mountain, Wicklow County, Leinster, Ireland
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Isotopic Composition of Sulfides at the Lisheen Mine J. J. WILKINSON,ā€  S. L. EYRE,* Department of Earth...Introduction THE LISHEEN DEPOSIT, situated in County Tipperary, Ireland (Fig. 1), is the most recent of six carbonate-hosted...the southern Midlands (Fig. 1) that include the Galmoy deposit (Doyle et al., 1992), 10 km to the northeast...northeast. Lisheen, together with the deposits of Galmoy, Navan, Tynagh, and Silvermines, represents the...affinities with the other Waulsortian-hosted deposits of Galmoy and Silvermines (B and G zones). Mineralization
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Early Permian Age of the Lisheen Zn-Pb Deposit, Ireland S. J. PANNALAL,ā€ ,* D. T. A. SYMONS, Department...of 290 Ā± 9 (2Ļƒ) Ma for Zn-Pb mineralization at Galmoy and 269 Ā± 4 (2Ļƒ) Ma for the Ba mineralization at...that is observed in all Carboniferous strata in Ireland. Our preferred interpretation is that the paleomagnetic...topographically driven fluid flow, either from the south of Ireland or from closer to the deposit, which was modified...Conodont color alteration indices (CAI) map of Ireland, showing the location of the Lisheen deposit and
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Carbonate-Hosted Lisheen Zn-Pb-Ag Deposit, County Tipperary, Ireland M. W. HITZMAN,ā€  Department of Geology...Zn-Pb-Ag deposit, located in County Tipperary in southeast-central Ireland, consists of a group of strata-bound...Introduction THE Lower Carboniferous carbonate rocks of Ireland contain one of the worldā€™s major base metal provinces...the Ivernia West-Chevron Mineral Corporation of Ireland Joint Venture, is the second largest Irish base...and the most significant base metal discovery in Ireland since the giant Navan deposit was discovered in
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Table 3. Introduction The lower Carboniferous of Ireland is host to a large number of base metal deposits...Moyvoughly NewtownCashel Lisheen Silvermines Tynagh Galmoy Magcobar Ballinalack Rickardstown Courtbrown Garrycam...the Waulsortian (Lisheen, Silvermines, Tynagh, Galmoy) is all intimately associated with faulting and...cavities in the Waulsortian (Fig. 4b). At Lisheen, Galmoy and Silvermines, breccias are grossly concordant...is widespread throughout the southern half of Ireland as the Cork Red Marble (Shearley 1989) and equivalent
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in Cu-polymetallic and Znā€“Pb mineralisation in Ireland: constraints from lead isotopes Received: 10 January...in SW Ireland occur either as low-grade stratiform disseminations and minor veinlets with bornite and djurleite...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
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University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin, Ireland 3 Mineralogy Department, Natural History Museum...a study of the Galmoy carbonate hosted Znā€“Pb deposit, Ireland. Background The Galmoy deposit is hosted...to be of hydrothermal origin. The G orebody at Galmoy is adjacent to an ENEā€“WSW trending fault, the ā€˜Gā€™-fault...separated from the RMB 1 Simplified map of Galmoy Mine, Ireland showing the major orebodies samples by... Cross section through the CW ore body at Galmoy, Ireland, showing total REE concentration either side
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin, Ireland Abstract The world-class Irish Zn-Pb(-Ag) deposits...subeconomic Zn-Pb deposits including Navan, Lisheen, Galmoy, Tynagh, and Silvermines, containing >20 million...geochemical signatures of layered sphalerite at Galmoy and Navan, the fundamental trigger for rapid sphalerite... lin e Rathdowney trend Rapla K ilm as tu Galmoy ??? ??? Silvermines Lisheen ne cli on let...showing the location of the Lisheen, Silvermines, and Galmoy Zn-Pb mines and the Rapla Zn-Pb prospect. The inset
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NEWS and EVENTS Mick Wolfe YEARS 1N MINERALS: IRELAND David Greenā€¢ 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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
sulphides (galena, pyrite, chalcopyrite, sphalerite, bornite) as well as by electrum, sulphoarsenides, sulphoselenides...LCT pegmatites and associated rocks in Southeast Ireland Renata Barros*1, Julian Menuge1, Alessandra Costanzo2...University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland (renata.barros@ucdconnect.ie) 2 Earth and Ocean...Natural Sciences, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland A lithium-rare metal (LCT, lithiumā€“caesiumā€“tantalum)...pluton, part of the Caledonian Leinster Granite, in southeast Ireland. Despite the indistinguishable
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involves veining and hydrofracturing. At Rogerley Mine, centimetric Simplified geological map of the Alston...showing localities studied: 1. Tynebottom Mine; 2. Smallcleugh Mine; 3. Wellheads Hush; 4. West Rigg open-cut;...open-cut; 5. Eastgate Cement Works quarry; 6. Rogerley Mine; 7. Scordale (Hilton and Merton Mines) B130 Applied...limestone. Brecciation is also seen at Tynebottom Mine. Here, angular, dark, fine-grained, silicified limestone...major factor, (e.g. the Fe deposits and Smallcleugh Mine); those where both metasomatism and open-space-filling
Book
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
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of the flat-topped hills in the vicinity of the mine are believed to be remnants of sheets of travertine...sufficiently frequent that efforts were made to mine them in their own right. (Remember that much of...University of Edinburgh, Scotland A detailed analysis of mine plans and grade data, building on previous work...metal distribution patterns of the Navan orebody, Ireland. Trans. Instn Min. Metall. (Sect. B: Appl. earth...the Lower Carboniferous base-metal orefield in Ireland. Ph.D. thesis, Yale University, U.S.A., 1999. 4
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and vanadocrete (vanadate). Panczner 1987 Tajo Mine, Hidalgo del Parral, Chihuahua, Mexico Panczner...Pb-Znā€“Cu-AsNi -FeS carbonatehosted Galmoy Lisheen Tynagh Ireland Aitik Sweden malachite malachite... Cu sedimenthosted (sandstonehosted) Kalengwa Mine, Zambia Cu-Co stratiform and vein-type REE-(Zn-PbCu)...heterogenite tenorite Kabwe Mine (Broken Zn-Pb stratabound and Hill Mine), replacement Zambia within...Lumumbashi Lā€˜Etoile du Congo Mine DR Congo Lhoest 1995, Heijlen et al. 2008 Kipushi Mine Shaba DR Congo (5)
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(1932). Little work was conducted in the area after mine closure in 1938 until the late 1960s and 1970s when...total of 389.8 Mlbs Cu and 0.75 Moz of Ag (original mine records). The Mother Lode vein was mined as a downplunge...1997; Price, 2004). Of these, only the Green Butte mine had noteworthy production during the years 1922...some 10 and 27 km east-southeast of the Bonanza mine, respectively (Sainsbury, 1951; MacKevett et al...located only about 1 km east-southeast of the Bonanza mine and occurs along a steeply dipping fault that slightly
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
sulphides from conglomerate group ore, Navan, Ireland G. J. Barker1, J. F. Menuge1, A. J. Boyce2, C....University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland (gareth.barker1@gmail.com) 2 NERC Isotope Community...world-class carbonate-hosted Navan Znā€“Pb deposit, Ireland, is Europeā€™s leading zinc producer. The stratigraphically...depositional processes in the Navan Znā€“Pb deposit, Ireland, Econ. Geol., 93, 535ā€“563. Fallick, A. E., Ashton...world-class hydrothermal base-metal orebody at Navan, Ireland, Econ. Geol., 96, 885ā€“890. Bowell, R. J., Grogan
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
techniques. Several concentrate samples from diļ¬€erent mine plants of Katanga Copperbelt (Kalukuluku, Mutanda...exploration in the Lismore block (Co. Waterford, Ireland): Preliminary data A. Caucegliaa, N. Mondilloa...Meath, Ireland (wilson@adventuszinc.com) ABSTRACT The Lismore block is located in southern Ireland (Co...ages of two hematite samples from the Glengonnar mine imply a late Triassic age for the early oxide phase...sulphides in the lower 49 Palaeozoic strata of Ireland and southern Scotland: Implications for Zn+Pb+Ba
Journal (volume)
characteristic trigonal sym metry, from Red Gill Mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria, described by Bridges et...Tindle 3 A review of the mineralisation at Red Gill Mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria, England Trevor Bridges...of kombatite, Pb14[(V04)209Cl4], from the "Wesley Mine" near Westbury on Trym, Bristol Michael Rumsey ...minerals of Mcmeen Quarry, Castlebar, Co. Mayo, Ireland Stephen Moreton 71 Barium zeolites and calcioancylite-(Ce)...zeolite group minerals new to Britain from Whitesmith Mine, Strontian, Highland Region , Scotland David Green
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deposition on the wall of a subsurface lane in a Pb-Zn mine by electron microprobe analysis (EMPA) (Liu et al...nonsulfide Znā€“Pb mineralization at Silvermines and Galmoy (Irish Midlands). Ore Geology Reviews, 33, 168ā€“186...Gilbert, S. (2011) Minor and trace elements in bornite and associated Cuā€“(Fe)-sulfides: A LA-ICP-MS study...calcite in calcareous tufa from the Qixiashan Pb-Zn Mine, Nanjing: a possible candidate for Zn-Mn removal
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
samples from the Lisheen Zn-Pb ore deposit in Ireland showing disparate Re-Os isotopic behavior were...Zn-Pb deposits are investigated: Lisheen from Ireland, and Hawker Creek from Baffin Island in Canada...ages. Sample selection The Lisheen deposit from Ireland was chosen for detailed investigation because pyrite...Lisheen, Ireland -p Background re Lisheen is the second-largest base-metal deposit in Ireland and is...mineralization. Although the past-producing Nanisivik mine is the largest known example of Zn-Pb -p mineralization
Journal (issue)
Ballard 39 EPIDOTE-(SR) AND PIEMONTITE-(SR) BENALLT MINE FROM NEWS and EVENTS Peter J. Briscoe David McCallum...of the Editorial Board. GORCEIXITE FROM BENALLT MINE Tom Cotterell ā€¢ Richard Tayler 61 Publication...processes involvedin mineraldeposition. UK JMine~& Mincrab No. 33 -2- UKJournal of Mines & Minerals...fromSgurrnanCearcall, Isleof Skye. UKJounul of Mine~ & Mineral, Nu. 33 -4- A column such as Mineral...weathered vein exposed on the hillside south of the mine contained typical bladed stibnite (rarely as free-grown
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Engineering Research Center for Mineral Resources and Mine Environments, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei...content of sphalerite along the chalcopyriteā€“pyriteā€“bornite sulfur fugacity buļ¬€er. Econ. Geol. 69, 1328ā€“1334...textures: a case study of sphalerite from the Galmoy ore body, Ireland. J. Geol. Soc. 166, 563ā€“582. Barton, P...and Isotopic composition of sulļ¬des at the Lisheen Mine. Econ. Geol. 100, 63ā€“86. Xie, J.C., Yang, X.Y.,
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Bismuthinite Bixbyite Blƶdite Boehmite Boracite Bornite Boulangerite Bournonite Braggite Brannerite Braunite...hanging wall. During a subsequent mining period, the mine was re-opened to recover sideritic parts of the...you look for a mine look near a mineā€. This includes the imperative ā€œif you look for a mine look for smelting...also for the chrome diopside found at Outukumpu mine, a mineral that is ļ¬rst and foremost recognized...According to the Raw Materials Group (Sweden), the world mine production in 2005 stood at 19.3 m t metal content
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Bismuthinite Bixbyite Blƶdite Boehmite Boracite Bornite Boulangerite Bournonite Braggite Brannerite Braunite...hanging wall. During a subsequent mining period, the mine was re-opened to recover sideritic parts of the...you look for a mine look near a mineā€. This includes the imperative ā€œif you look for a mine look for smelting...also for the chrome diopside found at Outukumpu mine, a mineral that is ļ¬rst and foremost recognized...According to the Raw Materials Group (Sweden), the world mine production in 2005 stood at 19.3 m t metal content
hosted in the now-eroded rocks above the Yanque mine site. Zinc-rich solution migrated through the sedimentary...remnants of galena and barite (Fig. 1). At the Yanque mine, the rock types of the lower part of the Mara Formation...local deposition of pyrite, chalcopyrite, and bornite, with small patches of Cu skarn carbonate minerals...zones of the Tynagh and Silvermines deposits, Ireland (Balassone et al., 2008). Zn smectite occurs in...nonsulfide Zn-Pb mineralization at Silvermines and Galmoy (Irish Midlands): Ore Geology Reviews, v. 33, p
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
hosted in the now-eroded rocks above the Yanque mine site. Zinc-rich solution migrated through the sedimentary...remnants of galena and barite (Fig. 1). At the Yanque mine, the rock types of the lower part of the Mara Formation...local deposition of pyrite, chalcopyrite, and bornite, with small patches of Cu skarn carbonate minerals...zones of the Tynagh and Silvermines deposits, Ireland (Balassone et al., 2008). Zn smectite occurs in...nonsulfide Zn-Pb mineralization at Silvermines and Galmoy (Irish Midlands): Ore Geology Reviews, v. 33, p
 
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