Leonie I Mine

Leonie I is part of a mine complex exploiting the Auerbach iron deposit. The Leonie shaft was dug in 1972 and closed in 1987. In 1996, it became a nature reserve with little to be seen on the surface other than the headframe of the mine.

The ‘Showcaves’ article linked below has a good history of the site – Mindat does have a written history of the site but the dates are all over the place and seem inaccurate.

Minerals once found at the site include baryte, rhodochrosite, rockbridgeite, siderite and wavellite.

Further reading:

• https://www.mindat.org/loc-13099.html
• https://www.showcaves.com/english/de/mines/Leonie.html

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