Location: |
Copper-silver polymetallic veins. Ballycummisk, County Cork, Ireland |
Major Minerals: |
Haematite, chalcopyrite, silver-bearing tetrahedrite |
Minor Minerals: |
Molybdenite, pyrite |
Trace Minerals: |
Include magnetite, bornite, chalcocite, galena, native gold, native bismuth, bismuthinite, bismuth sulphosalts |
Textures: |
Lath-shaped haematite is enclosed within chalcopyrite. Chalcopyrite and tetrahedrite form coarse-grained symplectite-like intergrowths |
References: |
Reilly, 1986; Ixer, 1987 |