Slag dumps, Richelsdorf Smelter, Süß, Nentershausen, Hersfeld-Rotenburg, Kassel Region, Hesse, Germany
Colourless, hexagonal plates of simonkolleite (SXRD-analysed). Sample originally from Werner Simon. FOV 1.2 mm. Photo Harald Schillhammer.
© Harald Schillhammer
White, almost imperceptibly violet tinted, crusty masses. S189-05 0.25 cm field of view. Excalibur Mineral Company specimen.
© 2008, JGW
Sharp, grey crystals of pseudowollastonite (cyclowollastonite) from Richelsdorf smelter. Field of view: 9 cm.
© Andreas Gerstenberg
Minute, white, needle-like, bladed crystals of Wulfingite. Former Cureton collection 1985 and Ralph E. Merrill collection. Rolf Luetcke specimen and photo.
Crusts of colourless, hexagonal plates of simonkolleite (SXRD-analysed). Sample originally from Werner Simon. FOV 3.3 mm. Photo Harald Schillhammer.
Zincite forms tiny pale pinkish prisms (bottom of photo, SXRD-analysed) and is associated with unidentified off-white rosettes. Collected by Werner Simon. Photo Harald Schillhammer.
White, fine-grained quenstedtite in presumably slag matrix. Purchased in 1999.
© Andrew Hodgson
The Richelsdorf Smelter and dumps, near Süß, in 1911. Vintage picture postcard, published by Wilhelm Schütz Eisenach. The card was sent on 12 April 1911 from Richelsdorf to Leipzig. G. Grundmann collection.
© Wilhelm Schütz Eisenach.