Due to the importance of the Mogul Mine, Silvermines locality in the field of Irish mineralogy, I am particularly interested in acquiring or simply seeing specimens from the locality. I am willing to buy or trade for these specimens and please do not hesitate to contact me at barryflannery@gmail.com if you have any specimens for sale or trade, or even to just show me, as I would be most grateful!

                         Lustrous cubo-octahedral galena crystals on a dolomite/pyrite matrix, 7cm across

I'm especially interested in acquiring the bournonite figured on page 104 of the March-April 1999 issue of the Mineralogical Record (Vol.30, No.2).A photograph of the specimen can be found here; http://www.aditnow.co.uk/photo/Personal-Album-1490-Image-39001/ 

I am also interested in any information or accounts regarding the mineralogy of the mine or first hand references of what was found, for example the collecting trips of the late Richard Barstow in the early 1980's. Other potentially interesting sources of information would be former mine employees or geologist's who might recall seeing the in-situ mineralization. This is of great importance to me and I'm extremely keen to hear such information or accounts.

Thank you!

Barry Flannery
barryflannery@gmail.com


Please view my article on www.mindat.org for more examples of material from Silvermines