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Tynagh
Ireland
Main commodities: Zn Pb Cu Ag




The most recent source geological information used to prepare this description was dated: 1996.    
This description is a summary from published sources, the chief of which are listed below.
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    Selected References
Boast A M, Coleman M L, Halls C  1981 - Textural and stable isotope evidence for the genesis of the Tynagh base metal deposit, Ireland: in    Econ. Geol.   v76 pp 27-55
Boni M, Large D  2003 - Nonsulfide zinc mineralization in Europe: an overview: in    Econ. Geol.   v98 pp 715-729
Clifford J A, Ryan P, Kucha H  1986 - A review of the geological setting of the Tynagh orebody, Co. Galway: 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 419-439
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
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
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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