Hechtsberg quarry
Hausach, Ortenaukreis, Freiburg Region, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
An aggregate quarry providing gneiss, which also produces some very rare mineral specimens. Better known in German as ‘Steinbruch am Hechtsberg’.
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The quarry mines around 200k tons of aggregates per year, and was probably originally created in around 1865.
The locations within the quarry with mineralisation are quite small but make up for that in some really quite uncommon minerals, as well as being the type locality for hechtsbergite.
The Clara-mineralien website linked below has a lot more information on this, including information about the dates each pocket of minerals was found.
Mindat and mineralienatlas links both have some good photos of the inside of the quarry.
Further reading:
- www.mineralienatlas.de (German language)
- Google translate link to the mineralienatlas.de link above.
- https://www.clara-mineralien.de/blackforest/blackforestnorth/hechtsberg—quellen-geschichte-minerale.html (German language)
- Google translate link to the clara-mineralien.de link above.
- https://www.mindat.org/loc-5695.html
If you are interested in other classic German locales we may have stock from the following locales.
German locales
Baden-Württemberg
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- 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
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- Leonie I Mine, Schleichershof, Auerbach in der Oberpfalz, Amberg-Sulzbach District, Upper Palatinate, Bavaria, Germany
- Solnhofen, Bavaria, 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
For the rest of our German stock, see below.
Germany
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