Marc Remmert's Photo Gallery
Geological map of the Silberhardt Mine area (near Windeck, NRW, Germany)
Map showing the geological situation of the "Kohlberg" vein exploited by the Silberhardt mine and other mines.
Silberhardt processing area
View from west on processing area of Silberhardt mine, in the foreground the treatment pond.
The area of the pond was later landfilled and is now a soccer field.
mining buildings around 1872
Mining and processing buildings of Silberhardt mine in 1872.
MXE-GGJChalcopyrite CuFeS2 , Bornite Cu5FeS4
Field of View: 4.4 mm
Bronze-colored crystals of bornite together with oxidized bluish chalcopyrite (possibly covered by chalcocite? or covellite?).
Matrix is quartz and schist.
Visual ID based on crystal color and form.
MXE-GGJBornite Cu5FeS4
Field of View: 3.1 mm
Bornite crystals on quartz, partially overgrown by secondary Cu-minerals.
The other bornite on this specimen is mostly massive ore together with chalcopyrite in quartz and schist.
Visual ID based on typical bronze-color strongly differing from that of the associated chalcopyrite.
EY1-PKMPyromorphite Pb5(PO4)3Cl
Field of View: 29.3 mm
Quite ugly brownish pyromorphites, beginning corrosion of surfaces and overgrown by Fe-oxides.
Matrix is black goethite on gossan with limonite/quartz.
Photo taken with a 50mm-lens reversed, stacked image.
07X-E0RCopper Cu
Field of View: 10.4 mm
Aggregate of dendritic crystals of native copper, covered by secondary Cu-minerals.
matrix is schist with chalcopyrite-veins in quartz
photo taken with 28mm lens reversed, stacked
8JK-L4TPyrite FeS2
Field of View: 4.3 mm
Pyrite-XX in quartz/pyrite-ore, partially altered to limonite.
J6H-XUKGalena PbS , Siderite FeCO3
Field of View: 4.3 mm
Galena-XX on brownish siderite overgrowing quartz.
J6H-XUKGalena PbS , Siderite FeCO3
Field of View: 4.3 mm
Galena-XX on brownish siderite.
