Becke-Oese quarry
Hemer, Märkischer Kreis, Arnsberg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
An abandoned aggregate quarry working Devonian and Carboniferous limestones.
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Known in German as Steinbruch Becke-Oese.
The quarry digs through areas of mineralisation sometimes, producing a range of mineral specimens – mindat lists 33 species from the site including some rarer minerals – devilline, millerite, posnjakite.
Further reading
- https://www.mindat.org/loc-17777.html
- https://opac.geologie.ac.at/wwwopacx/wwwopac.ashx?command=getcontent&server=images&value=AB0060_141_A.pdf
- https://www.mineralienatlas.de/lexikon/index.php/Deutschland/Nordrhein-Westfalen/Arnsberg%2C%20Bezirk/M%C3%A4rkischer%20Kreis/Hemer/Becke-Oese
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