Heimberg Quarry
Wolfshagen, Harz, Lower Saxony, Germany
Heimberg Quarry is a former dolerite quarry closed since 1987, which is now at least partially flooded and is left as a nature reserve.
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While the quarry did provide dolerite as an aggregate, it also provided a range of minerals, including aragonite, calcite, chalcopyrite, gersdorffite, pararammelsbergite, quartz, and siderite.
It is quite an attractive location, with an ‘inselberg’, or ‘island mountain’ rising from the rock to form an unusual central plateau.
Nowadays it seems to be quite popular with hikers in the area – see the ‘komoot’ page below for some great photos of the quarry and the inselberg.
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If you are interested in other classic German locales we may have stock from the following locales.
German locales
Baden-Württemberg
- 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
- 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.
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