Friedrichssegen Mine

Friedrichssegen Mine was extremely prolific, producing over 180 mineral species, as the type locality for two species – hanauerite and lahnsteinite.

A range of fine specimens were found at the site, including azurite, brochantite, cerussite, native copper and silver, cuprite, dolomite, galena, gersdorffite, malachite, pyromorphite, ramsbeckite and sphalerite – and lots of other ore minerals, of course.

The mine appears to be sealed with a steel grate; whether access is permitted to collectors via mineral groups I’m afraid I don’t know – all of the specimens I have seen from this locale were from older collections.

Further reading

• https://www.rheinsteig.de/en/a-carl-stollen-friedrichssegen
• https://www.mindat.org/loc-34225.html
• http://bergbaumuseum-friedrichssegen.de/index_2.html (German language)

If you are interested in other classic German locales we may have stock from the following locales.

German locales

• Dämmelwald clay pit, Wiesloch, Rhein-Neckar-Kreis, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
• Gründenwald, St Ulrich, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
• Hechtsberg quarry, Hausach, Ortenaukreis, Freiburg Region, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
• Käfersteige Mine, Würm, Pforzheim, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
• Schmiedestollen dump, Wittichen, Rottweil, Freiburg Region, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

• Hagendorf South Pegmatite, Hagendorf, Waidhaus, Bavaria, Germany
• Leonie I Mine, Schleichershof, Auerbach in der Oberpfalz, Amberg-Sulzbach District, Upper Palatinate, Bavaria, Germany
• Solnhofen Limestone Quarries, Solnhofen, Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen District, Middle Franconia, Bavaria, Germany

• Friedrichssegen Mine, Lahnstein, Rhein-Lahn-Kreis, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

• Bönkhausen, Sundern, Hochsauerlandkreis, Arnsberg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
• Caspari Mine, Uentrop, Arnsberg, Hochsauerlandkreis, Arnsberg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
• Castor Mine, Loope, Engelskirchen, Oberbergischer Kreis, Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
• Clemensberg Quarry, Hildfeld, Winterberg, Hochsauerlandkreis, Arnsberg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

• Heimberg Quarry, Wolfshagen, Lower Saxony, Germany
• Leppersdorf, Pulsnitz, Saxony, Germany
• Pöhla-Tellerhäuser Mine, Schwarzenberg, Saxony, Germany
• Siebigerode, Mansfeld, Mansfeld-Südharz, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

For the rest of our German stock, see below.

Germany