CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
145 Ireland 52.53 N -- 008.55 W Ballyvergin Cu; Ag
 
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): Ballyvergin
Political location(s): Ireland
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: undifferentiated; in shale and limestone above old red sandstone
Geologic province: Central Plain
Commodities: Cu; Ag
Geological ages: Early Carboniferous (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; mudstone-carbonate
Individual lithologies:shale
limestone
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) in shale & limestone above Old Red sandstone; genesis questionable/ localized in a small elongated dome
References:
Holland, C. H., 1981
A Geology of Ireland
Scottish Academic Press, Edinburgh, Scotland, 335 p.

Williams, C. E., 1978
Ireland
in Mineral Deposits of Europe, Volume 1: Northwest Europe, Edited by Bowie, S.; Kvalheims, A.; Haslam, H., Northwest Europe, Institute of Mining and Metallurgy and the Mineralogical Society, V 1, 362 p, p. 319 - 345

Resource data:
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Estimate date: 1981; 136,000 metric ton ore; Combined with production?: no; Provisional entry?: yes; Resource category: estimated resource
Grade-commodity information:Cu: 1 percent
Reference: Holland, C. H., 1981: A Geology of Ireland; Scottish Academic Press, Edinburgh, Scotland, 335 p.
Percent weights allocated to deposit: 100.0%

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