| Location: | Ireland, Europe |
| Lat / long: | 53.64909, -6.68094 |
| dep_id: | 10079610 |
| mrds_id: | W029649 |
| Commodity type: | metallic and nonmetallic |
| Major mineral: | Zinc, Lead |
| Minor mineral: | Silver |
| Trace mineral: | Barium-Barite |
| Operation type: | Unknown |
| Production size: | Production occurred |
| Development status: | Producer |
| ore: | Barite, Fluorite, Galena, Sphalerite |
| gangue: | Calcite, Dolomite, Quartz |
| orebody_fm: | TABULAR LENSES (STACKED LENSES) |
| work_type: | Underground |
| model: | 208: Sedimentary exhalative Zn-Pb |
| ore_ctrl: | Pale Beds (Dolomitic Limestones) |
| Reporter: | Krauss, Ulrich H., Bolm, Karen S. |
| hrock_unit: | Conglomerate Group & Visean Upper Dark Limestone;Pale Beds (Contain Orebodies);Muddy Limestone;Red Beds |
| hrock_type: | Limestone |
| Structure: | Gently Sw-Plunging Anticline With A Core Of Devonian Red Beds, Fault Striking Ene, Dipping South |
| Year first produced: | 1977 |
| disc_yr: | 1970 |
| References: |
- Deposit:: DOWNES, K. 1977 (CONFID.REPORT) MAJOR BASE METAL DEPOSITS OF IRELAND.- INSTITUTE FOR INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH & STANDARS.
- Deposit:: WORLD MINING AUGUST 1977 PP 42-44
- Deposit:: MINING MAGAZINE, OCTOBER 1977 PP.300-318
- Deposit:: BURTON, C. 1977 (CONFID. REPORT) JJRS.
- Deposit:: *RIEN, M.V., AND ROMER, D.M., 1971, TAR* ZINC-LAD DISCOVERY AT NAVAN, REPUBLIC OF IRELAND: CANADIAN MINING JOURNAL, APRIL, 1971, P. 81-82.
- Deposit:: MENZIE AND MOSIER, 1985: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OPEN-FILE REPORT 85-206.
- Deposit:: ENGINEERING AND MINING JOURNAL, AUGUST, 1976, P. 135.
- Deposit:: KENNEDY, ALAN, 1989, TARA MINE RE-EQUIPS FOR RAISED PRODUCTIVITY: MINING MAGAZINE, APRIL, 1989, P. 262-268.
- Production:: KENNEDY, 1989, P. 262.
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