Borstein

While choosing to represent an entire mountain as a locale is perhaps not the best move, in this case I don’t see there being much choice.

There are numerous sublocalities but they are all listed in the form ‘Fundpunkt 8.0’, which means ‘Find point 8.0’. There are nearly a dozen of these, and I don’t think it adds clarity to the website.

The mountain produces around 50 mineral species according to mindat, and is the type locality for two – medenbachite, and reichenbachite.

The ‘find points’ were primarily a series of quarries, many of which are now backfilled.

A better explanation of this can be seen on the Mineralatlas website, as they have a map marking the localities.

Further reading

• https://www.mineralienatlas.de/lexikon/index.php/Deutschland/Hessen/Darmstadt%2C%20Bezirk/Bergstra%C3%9Fe%2C%20Landkreis/Lautertal/Reichenbach/Borstein
• https://www.mindat.org/loc-31903.html

If you are interested in other minerals from nearby locales, we may have stock from the following locations.

• Borstein, Reichenbach, Lautertal, Bergstraße, Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany
• Herbstein basalt quarry, Herbstein, Vogelsbergkreis, Giessen Region, Hesse, Germany
• Mark Mine, Weinbach, Limburg-Weilburg, Giessen Region, Hesse, Germany

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