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There is only one known example of tantalum-bearing mineralization in Ireland. It occurs in a suite of lithium pegmatites close to the margin of the Leinster Granite in SE Ireland (Steiger and von Knorring 1974; Luecke 1981; Kennan et al. 1986). The geology of SE Ireland (Fig. 1) is essentially composed of rocks which were deformed during the Caledonian orogeny in late Silurian and early Devonian times. These older rocks are unconformably overlain by, or in places faulted against, Upper Palaeozoic rocks. The major Leinster Granite (Brindley 1973), to the margin of which the tantalum-bearing pegmatites are spatially related, was emplaced into a sequence of Cambrian to Silurian sedimentary and volcanic rocks (Brück et al. 1979).
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McArdle, P., Kennan, P.S. (1989). Geological Setting of Tantalum-Bearing Mineralization in the Caledonides of SE Ireland. In: Möller, P., Černý, P., Saupé, F. (eds) Lanthanides, Tantalum and Niobium. Special Publication No. 7 of the Society for Geology Applied to Mineral Deposits, vol 7. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-87262-4_10
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