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Tourmaline from
Diamond Rocks, Mourne Mountains, County Down, Northern Ireland, UK


Locality type:Occurrence
Classification
Species:'Tourmaline' (not an IMA approved species)
Formula:AD3G6 (T6O18)(BO3)3X3Z
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Tourmaline data
Locality Data:Click here to view Diamond Rocks, Mourne Mountains, County Down, Northern Ireland, UK
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:231385
Long-form Identifier:1:3:231385:6
GUID (UUID V4):80e57db9-1096-4476-a460-00c0b797502c
Nearest other occurrences of Tourmaline
1.8km (1.1 miles) Slieve Bearnagh, Mourne Mountains, County Down, Northern Ireland, UK
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Book
location of gemstones in the United Kingdom and Ireland to be published for a hundred years. Based on many...their geographical England and Wales, Scotland and Ireland occurrence. detail, in separate chapters, and specific...minerals as chalcedony and jasper, amethyst and tourmaline. Two chapters describe the physical properties...M. A. Cunningham, of the Geological Survey of Ireland; W. F.-Davidson, of Penrith; J. N. M. Firth; L...Geological Sciences, Leeds; Miss M. C. Hill, County Archivist, Salop County Council; P. G. Hines; Robert Hogg,
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INDEX UK JOURNAL OF MINES AND MINERALS ISSUES 11 - 20 (1992 - 2000) Michael Wolfe David Green, Julie...Julie Ballard and Richard Bell 2002 UK Journal of Mines and Minerals - index to issues 11 to 20 -1- CONTENTS... our second index, covers issues 11 to 20 of the UK Journal of Mines and Minerals, published between...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
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The Geology of North-East Ireland account of the geology of North-East Ireland, which lies within the region...Geological Survey of Ireland, contributions have been made by C. H. Emeleus (Mourne granites), A. E. Griffith...the whole. TO THIS COMPOSITE 1. INTRODUCTION The rocks of this region have a fairly simple distribution...consist of the worn-down stumps of the Caledonian orogene of Ordovician and Silurian rocks which are penetrated...south-westwards from Scotland. These are the Dalradian rocks of the Highland Border Ridge of north-east Antrim
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............. Former miner honoured for building UK - Mexico links .................... Crystal Classics.......................... Collecting in the Mourne Mountains - once upon a time ................. . Posnjakite...be! The Olympic Games in London, the Queen 's Diamond Jubilee celebrations and the Russell Society's...this 40 th Anniversary venture. I shall be standing down as President at the AGM in 2013 and will be pleased...regions. During this period his childhood interest in rocks and minerals was revived and he contemplated a formal
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Jan/Feb 2024 Vol.99, No.1 ROCKS MINE ."Iii[! iil"J www.tandfonline.com/vram Pegmatite Minerals & Gems...I. Jacobson, Denver, CO Anthony R. Kampf, l.A. County Museum of Natural History, CA Virgil W. Lueth,...Tucson, AZ Alfredo Petrov, Desert Hot Springs, CA Rocks & Minerals (ISSN: 0035-7529) is published bimonthly... US Postmaster: Please send address changes to Rocks &-Minerals, do The Sheridan Press, PO Box 465, Hanover...215-625-8900. UK/Europe: Taylor & Francis Customer Service, Sheepen Place, Colchester, Essex CO3 3LP; UK, Tel:
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Giller) 2 6 Nursery Road, Bewdley, Worcs. DY12 tAL, UK. Tele/Fax: +44 (0) 1299 403916 E-Mail: saragiller@crystalvine... 11. AQUAMARINE, TOPAZ & SMOKY QUARTZ, Diamond rocks, Mourne Mts. Eire. 6x5x5cm. A pegmatite matrix with...arsenopyrite patches as well. £4. 14. ARTHURITE, Hingston down, Callington. I .3x0.9x Icm. A MM showing a mottled...pretty. £4. 16. AZURITE, Tynagh mine, Co. Galway, Ireland. Ex S.J.A.C. Brown coll. Old label. A brown sandy...under magnification. £5. 24. BERTRANDITE, Hingston Down Quarry, Nr. Gunnislake, Cornwall. 2.5x l.7x 1cm
Book
LIBRARY j s i~sc_::. HISTORICAL GEOLOGY OF' IRELAND Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2023 with...org/details/historicalgeolog0000jkch HISTORICAL GEOLOGY OF IRELAND BY J. K. CHARLESWORTH C. B.E., D .Sc., PH.D....been attempted for Ireland since Cole and Hallissy's Handbook of the Geology of Ireland of 1924: the author's...author's Geology of Ireland: An Introduction ( r 953) had in mind the elementary student or the general...improve our knowledge of the various systems in Ireland. Many problems, however, await their final solution
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IN THE SUPPLY OF QUALITY MINERAL SPECIMENS IN THE UK. WE ARE CURRENTLY LOOKING TO BUY INDIVIDUAL MINERAL...01884 821724 e-mail: ian@crystalciassics.co.uk UK TS C 2 COVERPrismatichexagonalberyl to 14 mm w...withorthoclaseandsmokyquartzfromDiamond Rocks,MourneMountains,Co. Down.Stephen Moretoncollection. TwENTY...TwENTY YEARS IN MINERALS David Green 9 The UK ]011rnalof Mines and Minerals publishes articles of interest...NEWS and EVENTS Mick Wolfe YEARS 1N MINERALS: IRELAND David Green• Stephen Moreton 37 PYRITE FROM
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fergusonite and gadolinite in the Mourne Mountains, Northern Ireland Norman R. Moles and Andrew G. Tindle...Danburite from Meldon Quarry, Okehampton and other UK localities Michael S. Rumsey, George Ryback and Richard...Goethite pseudomorphs after marcasite from the Northern Pennine Orefield Brian Young and Trevor F. Bridges...professional mineralogists and geologists both in the UK and overseas. One of the main aims of the Society...and let us have your feedback. Forty years ago the UK still had an active metalliferous mining industry
Catalog/List
crystals. I , '1' Also available, list of basic Rocks and Minerals No 74. ,,1 ~ } ,--, ~ ) i i j ...SO/4 OH magnification there arc small crystals County, Arizona -------------"'--------'-'--'----'--____;;...Pure grey cleavable massive Crystal peak, Park County, Colorado, USA Keystone, South Dakota U.S.A. 1"...grained mass in calcite Dark Star Mine,Ravalli County, Ix½ £2.50 lxl £4 ANCYLITECe CeSr CO/3 Montana...lx2 £2 mixture with Chrysotile, pale grey-green County Bridge Quarry,Lizard ,Cornwall MgFeSiO massive
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STRUCTURAL RELATIONS of the IY[OURNE GRANITES (NORTHERN IRELAND). By JAMES ERNEST RICHET, ]~[.C., B.A.I.,...Subjects ................................. Country-Rocks. Dyke-Swarm of the Eastern Mournes. Auto-intrusions...INTRODUCTION. THE Mourne Mountains rise abruptly from sea-level south of Newcastle, Co. Down, on a front of...excepting the two adjoining Fig. 1.- Te~'tia~:r (qneous rocks and Devonian .qranite of iVewv.r (2vSjrtl~-Eastern...index-map of the chief Tertiary intrusion-centres in Ireland and Scotland.] centrally disposed peaks of Eagle
Catalog/List
co.uk New or recent minerals are marked with a diamond. This is a mail order catalogue, but anyone is...become available. Also available, list of teaching Rocks and Minerals ' ' This cancels catalogue No 84....wh ite crusts on matrix. Rawhide Mine, Moh ave County, ½ x ½ Arizona, U.S.A £3 Kragero Norway l x2 50p...masses in qu artz, under Flux Canyon.Santa Cruz County, ½ x ½ magn ificati on there are small crystals...mixture with Chrysotile. pale grey-green mass ive. County Bri dge Quarry,Lizard ,Cornwall Jx I £ I I x2
Catalog/List
including name of mine or quarry, nearest town and county, and six figure National Grid Reference. Date coll...Lyme Regis Dry GIii mine Roughtongill Meglllggar Rocks Gunheath Pit Port Glasgow Qulralng Orrock quany...PHOSGENITE 56 COPPER 59 BARITE 60 COVELLITE 61 TOURMALINE 62 ALSTONITE 63 LIBETHENITE 64 MESOLITE 65 SCORODITE...MANGANITE 86 ELYITE 87 PYROAURITE 88 KAMMERERITE 89 TOURMALINE PAGE1 Mulbeny Openwork Wh.carpenter Anno'Grain...mine Wh .PhOenlx Newporlh beach Wh.Phoenix Hingston Down Wh.Gortand Wh.Corpenter Wh.Jane Wh.Goriand Gunhealh
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Saturday 15th November, a group of hungry people sat down to a celebration dinner at the Old Tollgate restaurant...the famous cavity at Mogul mine, Silvermines, Ireland; once abundant, good specimens from this locality...and cerussite specimens from Tynagh mine, County Galway, Ireland. David Lloyd and Ian Jones produced one...smokey quartz, these were from Diamond Rocks in the Mourne Mountains Co. Down and had been collected by Irish...Irish specialist Stephen Moreton. Remaining in Ireland, another of the truely new finds at the show were
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of the Mid-Carboniferous, Clare Basin, western Ireland Martin Nauton-Fourteu1*, Shane Tyrrell1, Andrew...Geosciences (iCRAG), National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland. 2HM 3 Research Associates, Giddanmu...SA62 3TJ, UK. CASP, West Building, Madingley Rise, Madingley Road, Cambridge, CB3 0UD, UK. 4Department...Museum Building, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland. of Earth Sciences, Science Centre West, University...University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin, Ireland. *Corresponding author: martin.nauton@gmail.com Acknowledgments
Catalog/List
grained mass in Calcite.(Dark Star Mine,Ravalli County, Montana USA) 1 x H £2.50 1x1 £4 040 BITYITE Li...white cleavages in Muscovite. (Harding Mine,Taos County, New Mexico) 1x1 £3.50 1x2 £7 097 CHLOANTHITE (variety... About 7mm mass (Bulldog Mine, Creede, Mineral County,Colorado U.S.A) £4 439 STRACZEKITE Ca K Ba V 0...matrix (Union Carbide Mine, Wilson Springs Garland County, Arkansas USA) 1x1 £4 1x2 £7.50 396 TORBERNITE...matrix. (Outpost Mine, San Domingo Wash Maricopa County Arizona) Ixliins £4 107 CHLORARGYRITE Ag Cl good
Journal (issue)
mm tall pale blue apatitecrystal from Megilligar Rocks, Breage, Cornwall. Collectedby NickTalbott.Thephotois...Thephotois a combinationof nineseparatedigitalimages. The UK Joumal of Mi11esand Minerals publishes articles of...Chambers 47 Born< REVlEWS 55 CLASSIFIED ADVERTJSMENTS UK Journal of Mines & Minerals No. 25 -1- EDITORIAL...to be a genuinely rare mineral. This issue of the UK]oumal efMines and Minerals concentrates on rare minerals...might otbeiwise be lost. Unlike the well-known county record schemes, which operate in subjects such
Catalog/List
PRACTICAL ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ROCKS AND MINERALS by John Farndon. My private collection of rocks and minerals was...illustrate this book, using 250 minerals and 140 rocks. I have the book available at £17 plus post of £5...2x2 £3 Al SO/4 767 ■ AJOITE Christmas Mine, Gila County, Arizona USA 14 ALUMINITE Railway cutting near...size ½" £4 Ix ½ £6 lxl £8 531 ARSENOPYRITE Hingston Down Quarry,Cornwall,England Rich silvery masses with...As S 30 ATACAMITE Dooncen Mine,Allihics,County Cork,Ireland Thick rich green mass as coating all over
Catalog/List
IN STOCK. - - - GIVE HE A RING I BASIC LIST OF ROCKS ABD MINERALS Bo 74 available. NEW STOCK Rate minerals...grained mass in Calcite.(Dark Star Mine,Ravalli County, Montana USA) 1 x 14 £2.50 1x1 £4 1x2 £10 156 NATIVE...matrix (Union Carbide Mine, Wilson Springs Garland County, Arkansas USA) 1x1 £4 1x2 £7.50 360 PARATELLURITE...matrix. (Outpost Mine, San Domingo Wash Maricopa County Arizona) Ixliins £4 107 CHLORARGYRITE Ag Cl good...metallic mass in ■ matrix. (Mohawk Mine,Keenaw County Michigan USA) 1x1 £3 095 CALCIOVOLBORTHITE Ca Cu
Catalog/List
Minerals in this list; Aenigmatite,Atacamite from Ireland,Austinite, grey Calcite,pure Chrysoberyl,Coronadite...from Ireland . Five new rocks. This catalogue cancels No 79 Also available, list of basic Rocks and...Mohave Ixl £9 'A x A £3 1 xA Pb SiO/3_____________ County. Arizona, U.S.A £5___ Rich orange-red masses with...OH__________ magnification there are small crystals County, Arizona Pure green cleavage AMAZONITE Landsverk...grained mass in calcite Dark Star Mine.Ravalli County, lx!4 £2.50 Ixl £4 37 Ce Sr CO/3 Montana U.S.A
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
Catalog/List
catalogue No 83 Also available, list of teaching Rocks and Ivlinerals NAME =fcrcncc ==::::,de -o 2...Scotland mixture wilhChrysotile, pale grey-green ✓ County Bridge Quarry.Lizard C . ornwall massive. Stitchtitc...Rich silvery masses with Chalcopyrite ✓ Hingston Down Quarry,Cornwall,England Ashanti Mine, level 8, Obuasi...green coatings on granite.Quite well ✓ Hingston Down Mine,Hingston .Cornwall covered Saga Quarry, Tvedalen...Norway for this location. Dooneen M ine,Allihies,County lliick rich green mass as coating all over Cork
Catalog/List
catalogue No 81 Also available, list of teaching Rocks and Minerals CODE NAME DESCRIPTON PRICES with...\IOSITE Rich white cruslS on matrix. £5 PbSiO/3 County. Arizona. U.S.A 2x2 1x2 sop Kragero Norway Rich....maenification there are small crystals · - · .County. A:fiZC>i:i--=a=--- 60 AMAZONITE Attractive green...grained mass in calcite Dark Star Mine.Ravalli County. Ix½ £2.50 Ixl £4 37 ANCYLITE Cc CeSr CO/3 ·. __...lxl £1 mixture with Chrysotilc. pale grey-green County Bridge Quarry.Lizard 502 ANTIGORITE !. ~ omwall
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mat rix. 3b<4x2t". £33.00. ARSENOPVRITE. Hingston Down Mine, Gunnislake, Cornwall. Specimen A - well "...intergrown in areas on cellular Arsenopyrite/Tourmaline matrix. lxl". £1.25. BARVTES. Pribram, Bohemia...matrix. l-!xlt". £L25. TOPAZ. Diamond Rocks, Mourne Mts., Co. Down, N. Ireland. A sharp transparent dOUbly...encrusting Smoky quartz matrix. ~x~xli-". £7.00. TOURMALINE variety Schorl. Tongafeno, Madagascar. Lustrous
Catalog/List
PRACTICAL ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ROCKS AND MINERALS by John Farndon. My private collection of rocks and minerals was...illustrate this book, using 250 minerals and 140 rocks. I have the book available at £17 plus post of£5...--··---- - - - - - · . 767 AJOITE Christmas Mine, Gila County, Arizona USA 17 ANAL CITE Talisker Bay, Skye, Scotland...- -- ·- -37 ANCYLITE Ce Dark Star Mine.Ravalli County. Montana U.S.A 963 ALBITE Maine USA Rich pinkish...PICROLITE) lxl £5 ·------·--- - 502 ANTIGORITE County Bridge Quarry.Lizard ,Cornwall mixture with Chrysotilc
 
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