Wied Iron Spar District, Westerwald, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

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Wieder Eisenspat-Bezirk, Westerwald, Rheinland-Pfalz, Deutschland

This area forms the southwestern extension of the Siegerland iron mining area, from which it is geologically separated by an east-west trending zone near Altenkirchen that is almost void of any mineralization. The veins, trending either N-S or NE-SW, are hosted by Devonian schists, consist mainly of siderite and manganese ores and also carry varying mounts of lead, zinc and copper ores. The most prolific veins of the district are crowded in vein groups ("Gangzüge"), which appear in three narrow north-south trending zones at east-to-west distances of about 10 km from each other:

- ANXBACH group: This group comprises a number of NE-SW trending veins, extending over a distance of about 2 km east to south-east of Lorscheid. Their northern section was worked by the Anxbach Mine, their southernmost part by the Oskar Mine. Several smaller veins are located near Waldbreitbach, immediately south.
- GEORG-SILBERWIESE group: A group of N-S trending veins between Oberlahr in the north and Niederhonnefeld in the south. The most important mines in this zone were the Silberwiese Mine near Oberlahr, the Louise Mine near Horhausen and the Georg Mine near Willroth.
- A THIRD ZONE extends further east, from Puderbach in the north-northwest to Bendorf in the south-southeast, including the mines near Raubach, Dernbach and Isenburg. The copper content of the veins continually decreases from north to south, while the lead and zinc contents increase.

Mineral List

Mineral list contains entries from the region specified including sub-localities

Acanthite Anglesite Ankerite Annabergite 'Apatite' Aragonite Arsenopyrite Azurite Baryte Beaverite-(Cu) Berthierite Beudantite (TL) 'Beyrichite' Bismuth Bottinoite Boulangerite Bournonite Brochantite Bromargyrite Calcite Caledonite Capgaronnite Carminite (TL) Celadonite Cerussite Chalcopyrite Chalcosiderite Chlorargyrite var: Bromian Chlorargyrite var: Iodian Bromian Chlorargyrite 'Chlorite Group' Cinnabar

Copper Corkite Cornwallite Coronadite Cosalite Covellite Cuprite Cuproroméite Dolomite Dufrénite Erythrite Fluorapatite Galena Gartrellite Geocronite Gersdorffite Goethite Gold Hematite Heteromorphite Hinsdalite 'Hydromuscovite' Iodargyrite Jamesonite Jaskólskiite Kermesite Kidwellite Kobellite Kolbeckite Langite 'Laubmannite'

Leadhillite Lepidocrocite 'Limonite' Linarite Linnaeite Magnetite Malachite Manganite Mansfieldite Marcasite Meneghinite Metastibnite Millerite Mimetite 'Mimetite-M' Minium Muscovite var: Sericite Nadorite Natrojarosite Nickelskutterudite var: Chloanthite Olivenite Oxyplumboroméite Pattersonite Perroudite Pharmacosiderite Phosgenite Plagionite Plumbogummite Plumbojarosite Polydymite 'Psilomelane'

Pyrite var: Arsenian Pyrite Pyrolusite Pyromorphite Quartz var: Rock Crystal Rhodochrosite Rockbridgeite 'Roméite Group var: Stibiconite' Rosasite Rosickýite Scorodite Semseyite Sénarmontite Siderite Silver var: Amalgam Skutterudite Sphalerite Stibnite Sulphur Tetrahedrite Todorokite Ullmannite Valentinite Variscite Violarite 'Wad' Zinkenite

124 entries listed. 105 valid minerals. 2 type localities (valid minerals).

Localities in this Region

Germany Rhineland-Palatinate Westerwald Wied Iron Spar District Altenkirchen Bürdenbach Lammerichskaule Mine Louise Mine Güllesheim Nöchelchen Mine Horhausen Friedrich-Wilhelm Mine Oberlahr Harzberg Mine Silberwiese Mine Willroth Georg Mine Neuwied Bendorf Sayn Gute Hoffnung Mine Werner Mine

Germany Rhineland-Palatinate Westerwald Wied Iron Spar District Neuwied Dernbach Schöne Aussicht Mine Funkenhausen Ferdinand Mine Isenburg Benignus Mine Hausenborn Mine Ludwig Mine Lorscheid Anxbach Mine Oskar Mine Niederhonnefeld Louisenglück Mine Puderbach Reichensteinerberg Mine Roßbach Mine (Rossbach Mine) Raubach Apollo Mine Waldbreitbach Katzenschleife Mine

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