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

• Clara Mine, Oberwolfach, Ortenaukreis, Freiburg Region, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
• 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
• Limberg Quarries, Sasbach am Kaiserstuhl, Emmendingen, Freiburg Region, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
• Schmiedestollen dump, Wittichen, Rottweil, Freiburg Region, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
• Silberbrünnle Mine, Gengenbach, Gengenbach, Ortenaukreis, 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

• Herbstein basalt quarry, Herbstein, Vogelsbergkreis, Giessen Region, Hesse, Germany
• Mark Mine, Weinbach, Limburg-Weilburg, Giessen Region, Hesse, Germany

• Anna mine, Alsdorf, Aachen, Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
• Bönkhausen, Sundern, Hochsauerlandkreis, Arnsberg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
• Calcite quarry, Holzen, Arnsberg, 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
• Dörnberg Mine, Olsberg, Hochsauerlandkreis, Arnsberg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
• Juno Mine, Ramsbeck, Bestwig, Hochsauerlandkreis, Arnsberg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

• Emmelberg, Üdersdorf, Daun, Vulkaneifel, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
• Friedrichssegen Mine, Lahnstein, Rhein-Lahn-Kreis, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
• Nickenicher Sattel, Nickenich, Pellenz, Mayen-Koblenz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
• Schöne Aussicht Mine, Dernbach, Wirges, Westerwaldkreis, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
• Wannenköpfe Quarry, Ochtendung, Maifeld, Mayen-Koblenz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

• Heimberg Quarry, Wolfshagen, Lower Saxony, Germany
• Pöhla-Tellerhäuser Mine, Schwarzenberg, Saxony, Germany
• Zinnwald, Zinnwald-Georgenfeld, Altenberg, Sächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge, Saxony, Germany

For the rest of our German stock, see below.

Germany