Heimberg Quarry

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.

Further reading:

• https://www.mindat.org/loc-6029.html
• https://www.komoot.com/highlight/331951

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, 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

For the rest of our German stock, see below.

Germany