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Locality Name:
Co. Clare, Ireland

Oldest recorded age at locality: 340
Youngest recorded age at locality: 340

mindat Locality ID: 215432
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-215432.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Co. Clare, Ireland": 25
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 16

Number of Child Localities: 2
Child Localities:
Ennis
The Burren

Latitude: 52°57'15"N
Longitude: 9°2'31"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 52.954166666667,-9.0419444444444

A	This mineral is Anthropogenic.
G	This mineral is directly dated.
B	This mineral is reported as having this age.
Y	This mineral is using an age reported as an element mineralization period.
O	This mineral is using an age calculated from all data at the locality.
R	The age displayed for this mineral originates from a different, non-child locality.
P	The age displayed for this mineral is the range of ages for this mineral at all of this locality's children.
	This mineral's age has not yet been recorded.

Apatite	Aragonite	Arsenopyrite	Baryte	Bournonite	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Fluorite	Geocronite	Malachite
None	Not in a structural group	Pyrite	Pyrochlore	Quartz	Rocksalt	Sphalerite	Wurtzite

Anglesite ()*	Arsenopyrite ()*	Bindheimite ()*	Bournonite ()*	Calcite ()*
Cerussite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Cuprite ()*	Fluorapatite ()*	Fluorite ()*
Galena ()*	Geocronite ()*	Greenockite ()*	Hydrozincite ()*	Malachite ()*
Otavite ()*	Pyrite ()*	Pyromorphite ()*	Quartz ()*	Rosasite ()*
Smithsonite ()*	Sphalerite ()*

This Mineral list contains entries from this locality, including sub-localities. Minerals in bold are reported by mindat.org as occurring directly at this locality, and do not occur at any children (sublocalities) of this locality.

Elements at this locality, including sub-localities: As C Ca Cd Cl Cu F Fe H O P Pb S Sb Si Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Apatite Aragonite Arsenopyrite Baryte Bournonite Calcite Chalcopyrite Fluorite Geocronite Malachite
None Not in a structural group Pyrite Pyrochlore Quartz Rocksalt Sphalerite Wurtzite

22 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Anglesite ()*	Baryte	Pb(SO₄)			1	67744	2734
Arsenopyrite ()*	Arsenopyrite	FeAsS			1	67732	9052
Bindheimite ()*	Pyrochlore	Pb₂Sb⁵⁺₂O₇			1	67754	450
Bournonite ()*	Bournonite	CuPbSbS₃			2	67736,67754	1089
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	340	340	14	67732,67733,67734,67735,67736,67737,67738,67741,67743,67744,67746,67748,67750,67754	27770
Cerussite ()*	Aragonite	Pb(CO₃)	340	340	2	67733,67744	4979
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	340	340	6	67732,67733,67734,67736,67743,67744	27198
Cuprite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₂O	340	340	1	67733	2970
Fluorapatite ()*	Apatite	Ca₅(PO₄)₃F			1	67751	2740
Fluorite ()*	Fluorite	CaF₂			6	67741,67743,67744,67746,67750,67754	9617
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	340	340	8	67732,67733,67734,67735,67736,67737,67744,67750	24243
Geocronite ()*	Geocronite	Pb₁₄Sb₆S₂₃			1	67736	133
Greenockite ()*	Wurtzite	CdS			1	67744	717
Hydrozincite ()*	None	Zn₅(CO₃)₂(OH)₆			1	67744	1066
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	340	340	2	67733,67744	12537
Otavite ()*	Calcite	Cd(CO₃)			1	67744	25
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	340	340	4	67732,67733,67734,67736	39462
Pyromorphite ()*	Apatite	Pb₅(PO₄)₃Cl			1	67754	1725
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂			4	67743,67744,67746,67754	61156
Rosasite ()*	Malachite	CuZn(CO₃)(OH)₂			1	67744	454
Smithsonite ()*	Calcite	Zn(CO₃)	340	340	4	67733,67736,67744,67746	2473
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	340	340	8	67732,67733,67734,67735,67736,67737,67744,67750	21482

1 Ages assigned to this locality:

	Excel ID	Max Age (Ma)	Min Age (Ma)	Age as listed in reference	Dating Method	Age Interpret	Prioritized?	Sample Source	Sample Num	Run Num	Age from other Locality	Dated Mineral	Minerals explicitely stated as having this age	Age applies to these Elements	MinDat Locality ID	Dated Locality (Max Age)	Location as listed in reference	Reference	Reference DOI	Reference ID	Age Notes
	sedcu-00453	340	340	L. Carboniferous										Cu	212605	Ballyvergin Mine, Quin, Ennis, Co. Clare, Ireland	Ballyvergin	Cox et al. (2003)		USGSOFR03_107

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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