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The vein-hosted copper deposits of the Allihies mining area, SW Ireland; a new structural and chronological evaluation

View ORCID ProfileJürgen Lang, View ORCID ProfilePatrick A. Meere, View ORCID ProfileRichard P. Unitt, View ORCID ProfileSean C. Johnson, View ORCID ProfileGiulio Solferino, View ORCID ProfileKoen Torremans, David Selby and Roisin Kyne
Journal of the Geological Society, 177, 671-685, 14 April 2020, https://doi.org/10.1144/jgs2019-154
Jürgen Lang
1Irish Centre for Research in Applied Geosciences (iCRAG), School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University College Cork, Distillery Fields, North Mall, , Ireland
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This paper presents new data for historical vein-hosted copper sulfide deposits in the Late Paleozoic Munster and South Munster basins of SW Ireland. Detailed mapping, 3D modelling, fluid inclusion microthermometry and geochronology from the Allihies area of the Beara Peninsula have led to a new interpretation of the timing and development of ore mineralization. Macro- and microstructural studies reveal that the ore-bearing, mainly east–west-striking quartz veins are directly related to early extensional, basinal normal faults. Molybdenite Re–Os dating of the main-stage Cu lode yields ages from 367.3 ± 5.5 to 366.4 ± 1.9 Ma. This early vein system experienced subsequent late Carboniferous Variscan deformation, including cleavage development, sinistral SW–NE strike-slip faulting, cataclastic deformation and recrystallization. The new timing of Cu mineralization in SW Ireland has major implications for its relationship to the base metal deposits of the Irish Midlands.

Supplementary material: A video file showing a 3D model of the major lodes and the underground workings at Mountain Mine, and Excel spreadsheets showing fluid inclusion measurements and sample locations of the Allihies Copper Mining District are available at https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.4875015

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The vein-hosted copper deposits of the Allihies mining area, SW Ireland; a new structural and chronological evaluation

Jürgen Lang, Patrick A. Meere, Richard P. Unitt, Sean C. Johnson, Giulio Solferino, Koen Torremans, David Selby and Roisin Kyne
Journal of the Geological Society, 177, 671-685, 14 April 2020, https://doi.org/10.1144/jgs2019-154
Jürgen Lang
1Irish Centre for Research in Applied Geosciences (iCRAG), School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University College Cork, Distillery Fields, North Mall, , Ireland
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5State Key Laboratory of Geological Processes and Mineral Resources, School of Earth Resources, China University of Geosciences, , , , China
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Journal of the Geological Society, 177, 671-685, 14 April 2020, https://doi.org/10.1144/jgs2019-154
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