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Note on the mines and minerals of the Silvermines district, Co. Tipperary
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 March 2018
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The Silvermines mineral district is situated along the northern base of the Silvermine Mountains, five and a half miles south of the town of Nenagh in the county of Tipperary. The district is one which possesses somewhat remarkable features, of interest to both geologists and mineralogists. The mines extend over a narrow tract of country for a distance of about five miles along an extensive E. and W. line of fault, in which Silurian, Old Red Sandstone, and Carboniferous rocks are brought into juxtaposition. This line of fault has been traced for a distance of about thirty miles from Gallows Hill in co. Clare, on the west, to Toomavara in co. Tipperary, on the east. Along its course in at least two places mineralization has taken place, resulting in a somewhat complex series of contact-lodes and metasomatic deposits.
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- Research Article
- Information
- Mineralogical magazine and journal of the Mineralogical Society , Volume 14 , Issue 67 , September 1907 , pp. 350 - 353
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- Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1907
References
Page 351 note 1 Apjohn, J., ‘on the occurrence of electric calamine at the Silver Mines, County of Tipperary.’ Journ. Geol. Soc. Dublin, 1860, vol. viii, pp. 157-9Google Scholar. See also Wynne, A. B., ‘Some remarks upon the mining district of Silvermines, County of Tipperary, with a map.’ ibid., pp. 244-50Google Scholar ; Beete Jukes, J., ‘Note on the way in which the calamine occurs at Silvermines, County of Tipperary.’ ibid., 1863, vol. x, pp. 11–13 Google Scholar.
Page 352 note 1 Gages, A., ‘On the formation of orpiment in a mass of sulphate of barytes, found interstratified in the Carboniferous Limestone near Silvermines, County of Tipperary.’ Journ. Geol. Soc. Dublin, 1860, vol. viii, pp. 243-4Google Scholar.