Kinahan — On Irish Metal Mining. 



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APATITE. 



[Apatite in quantity has not as yet been recorded in Ireland ; but as some of the rocks are 

 very similar to those associated with the apatite in Canada, especially some of the "West 

 Galway rocks, it may yet be found.] 



Counties. 



Localities. 



Eemaeks. 



Antrim. 



Donegal. 



In the Lias of the east coast some 

 nodules (coprolites) have been found, 

 bnt not in quantity. 



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Craanford. 



Cam High. 



Millford — Ordovician.- 

 limestone. 



-A poor apatitic 



Galway (?) 

 Tyrone (?) 



Barnes, Upper and 

 Lower. 



"West, orTar-connaught. 

 Slieve Gallion District. 



Ratbnielton — Ordovician. — A slightly 

 apatitic limestone. 



Kilmacrenan — Metamorphic Cambrian (?) 

 Scott records having found traces of 

 apatite in these townlands. 



Ordovician (?) or Cambrian (?) — Some of 

 the rocks in both these areas are very 

 similar to those, that in Canada, are 

 associated with the apatite. 



