Baden-Württemberg

Germany

Baden-Württemberg is a state in south west Germany. It is well known amongst mineral collectors for being the location of Clara Mine.

 

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Baden-Württemberg is mineralogically significant for its Variscan and Alpine-influenced geological terrains, historic mining districts, and black forest pegmatites.

The region has produced notable specimens of quartz, feldspar, mica, fluorite, baryte, galena, sphalerite, cassiterite, and rare secondary minerals from hydrothermal veins and pegmatitic environments. Classic localities include the Black Forest, Odenwald, and Swabian Alb mining districts.

Mindat lists a huge 826 mineral species as being known from the state, including 65 for which it hosts the type locality.

The majority of the type locality species are uncommon and will primarily be of interest to micro or systematic mineral collectors but one fairly well known name jumps out – Natrolite, a zeolite mineral was originally discovered here.

It would be remiss of me to consider writing anything about Baden-Württemberg without mentioning what is almost certainly its most famous locale, and potentially one of the best known locales worldwide – Clara Mine / Grube Clara, an extremely well known collecting locality.

 

 

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We may have specimens from specific locales in Baden-Württemberg.

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