CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
506 Ireland 52.16 N -- 007.12 W Ballymacarbry 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): Ballymacarbry
Political location(s): Ireland
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: continental redbed; disseminated in green sandstone
Geologic province: Munster Basin
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Devonian (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; sandstone
Individual lithologies:sandstone (green)
Host rock stratigraphy:Old Red Sandstone, Toe Head Formation
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) disseminated in green sandstone; deposit located near village of Ballymacarbry
References:
Emo, G. T., 1981
A Review of Mineralisation in the Old Red Sandstone and Its Significance to Irish Exploration
in Mineral Exploration in Ireland - Progress and Developments 1971-1981, Edited by Brown, A. G.; Pyne, J., Wexford Conference 1981, Irish Association for Economic Geology, Dublin, Ireland, 179 p, p. 27 - 34


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