CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
2076 Ireland 51.33.00 N -- 009.35.00 W Mount Gabriel Cu
 
Database name: World Sediment-Hosted Cu Deposits
Compilers: R. V. Kirkham, J. J. Carriere, A. Rafer, and P. Born
Release date: 2015-01-27
   
Deposit name(s): Mount Gabriel
Political location(s): Ireland; Nearest community: Bantry
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: paralic marine
Geologic province: Munster Basin
Commodities: Cu
Mineralization styles: disseminations
Geological ages: Devonian (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; sandstone-siltstone (redbed)
Host rock stratigraphy:Castlehaven Formation
Mineralogy: (mineralization): bornite, djurleite
References:
Kinnaird, J.A.; Ixer, R.A.; Barreiro, B.; Nex, P.A.M., 2002
Contrasting sources for lead in Cu-polymetallic and Zn-Pb mineralization in Ireland: constraints from lead isotopes
Mineralium Deposita, Volume 37, p. 495 - 511


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