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Silvermines - Mogul, Magcobar
Ireland
Main commodities: Zn Pb Ag Ba




The most recent source geological information used to prepare this description was dated: 2023.     Record last updated: 11/09/2023
This description is a summary from published sources, the chief of which are listed below.
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Silvermines - Magcobar

    Selected References
Andrew C J  1986 - The tectono-stratigraphic controls to mineralization in the Silvermines area, County Tipperary, Ireland: in Andrew C J, Crowe R W A, Finlay S, Pennell W M, Pyne J F (Ed.s) 1986 Geology and Genesis of Mineral Deposits in Ireland Irish Association for Economic Geology, Dublin    pp 377-417
Boland M B, Clifford J A, Meldrum A H, Poustie A  1992 - Residual base metal and barite mineralization at Silvermines, Co. Tipperary, Ireland: in Bowden A A, Earls G, O Connor P G, Pyne J F 1992 The Irish Minerals Industry 1980-1990 Irish Association for Economic Geology    pp 247-260
Boni M, Large D  2003 - Nonsulfide zinc mineralization in Europe: an overview: in    Econ. Geol.   v98 pp 715-729
Boyce A J, Little C T S, Russell M J  2003 - A new fossil vent biota in the Ballynoe Barite deposit, Silvermines, Ireland: evidence for intracratonic sea-floor hydrothermal activity about 352 Ma: in    Econ. Geol.   v98 pp 649-656
Hitzman M W  1995 - Geological setting of the Irish Zn-Pb-(Ba-Ag) Orefield: in Anderson K, Ashton J, Earls G, Hitzman M, Tear S (Eds.),  Irish Carbonate Hosted Zn-Pb Deposits SEG Guidebook Series, Littleton, Colorado, USA   v21 pp 3-23
Hitzman M W  1995 - Mineralisation in the Irish Zn-Pb-(Ba-Ag) Orefield: in Anderson K, Ashton J, Earls G, Hitzman M, Tear S (Eds.),  Irish Carbonate Hosted Zn-Pb Deposits SEG Guidebook Series, Littleton, Colorado, USA   v21 pp 25-61
Kyne, R., Torremans, K., Guven, J.F., Doyle, R. and Walsh, J.J.,  2019 - 3-D Modeling of the Lisheen and Silvermines Deposits, County Tipperary, Ireland:Insights into Structural Controls on the Formation of Irish Zn-Pb Deposits: in    Econ. Geol.   v.114, pp. 93-116.
Lee M J, Wilkinson J J  2002 - Cementation, hydrothermal alteration and Zn-Pb mineralization of carbonate breccias in the Irish Midlands: textural evidence from the Cooleen zone, near Silvermines, County Tipperary: in    Econ. Geol.   v97 pp 653-662
LeHuray A P, Caulfield J B D, Rye D M, Dixon P R  1987 - Basement controls on sediment-hosted Zn-Pb deposits: a Pb isotope study of Carboniferous mineralization in central Ireland: in    Econ. Geol.   v82 pp 1695-1709
Phillips W E A, Sevastopulo G D  1986 - The stratigraphy and structural setting of Irish mineral deposits: in Andrew C J, Crowe R W A, Finlay S, Pennell W M, Pyne J F (Eds.),  Geology and Genesis of Mineral Deposits in Ireland Irish Association for Economic Geology, Dublin    pp 1-30, xvi
Reed C P,Ê Wallace M W  2004 - Zn-Pb mineralisation in the Silvermines district, Ireland: a product of burial diagenesis: in    Mineralium Deposita   v39 pp 87-102
Samson I M, Russell M J  1987 - Genesis of the Silvermines Zinc-Lead-Barite deposit, Ireland: fluid inclusion and stable isotope evidence: in    Econ. Geol.   v82 pp 371-394
Taylor S  1984 - Structural and paleotopographic controls of Lead-Zinc mineralization in the Silvermines orebodies, Republic of Ireland: in    Econ. Geol.   v79 pp 529-548
Torremans, K., Kyne, R., Doyle, R., Guven, J.F. and Walsh, J.J.,  2018 - Controls on Metal Distributions at the Lisheen and Silvermines Deposits: Insights into Fluid Flow Pathways in Irish-Type Zn-Pb Deposits: in    Econ. Geol.   v.113, pp. 1455-1477
Vafeas, N.A., Slezak, P., Chew, D., Brodbeck, M., Hitzman, M.W. and Hnatyshin, D.,  2023 - U-Pb Dating of apatite from Silvermines deposit, Ireland: a model for hydrothermal ore genesis: in    Econ. Geol.   v.118, pp. 1521-1527. doi: 10.5382/econgeo.5016.
Wilkinson J J  2003 - On diagenesis, dolomitisation and mineralisation in the Irish Zn-Pb orefield: in    Mineralium Deposita   v38 pp 968-983
Wilkinson JJ,  2010 - A Review of Fluid Inclusion Constraints on Mineralization in the Irish Ore Field and Implications for the Genesis of Sediment-Hosted Zn-Pb Deposits : in    Econ. Geol.   v105 pp. 417-442


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