Hobby will take you to places that you wouldn`t even know exist

Hobby will take you to places that you wouldn`t even know exist
Diamond Rocks, The Mourne Mts, Northern Ireland

Wednesday 2 December 2015

"The Calcite Quarry"

We did it again ;)

25.10.2015, afternoon.
The quarry is located about 15 km from Mallow.

After a dangerous, 20 min long walk along a busy road, we were finally able to go in. But first, we had to face nettle and mud. Klaudia tripped and landed in the nettle but did it discourage her?- noooo! Just the opposite- we had a great laugh and the situation made the adventure even better! :D

We didn`t expect to find real treasures, we knew Iceland Spar was found there years ago, only in one corner of the quarry, but we didn`t know which corner it was. In this case getting to know the place and learning this and that about the geology had more meaning than the calcite.

Gaining entrance took more time than expected and we could only stay there for a short hour, as it was going to get dark soon. One day we may go back and look for the Iceland Spar...
Nettle... ouch!!! Klaudia ready to fight it!

The part of the quarry we checked

Our first finding- a huge boulder of calcite. We broke it and managed to extract a few clean pieces

This place was full of calcite, it was everywhere

Klaudia on her way to check the most interesting looking rocks

A weathered goniatite (left)?

A good view for the quarry

Earlier mentioned clean calcite pieces. Parts of them very clear.

And bye-bye! As you can see it was windy (and a bit rainy, too). Not the best selfie in the world :P

See you next time!