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Apollo Mine, Raubach, Neuwied, Wied Iron Spar District, Westerwald, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

Photo: Marcus Vau
Latitude: 50°34'11"N
Longitude: 7°37'50"E
Grube Apollo, Raubach, Neuwied, Wieder Eisenspat-Bezirk, Westerwald, Rheinland-Pfalz, Deutschland

Famous for excellent bournonite crystals.


Mineral List

Acanthite
Anglesite
'Apatite'
Aragonite
Azurite
Beaverite-(Cu)
Berthierite
Boulangerite
Bournonite
Brochantite
Calcite
Cerussite
Chalcopyrite
'Chlorite Group'
Covellite
Cuprite
Dolomite
Erythrite
Fluorapatite
Galena
Goethite
Hematite
'Hydromuscovite'
Jamesonite
Jaskólskiite
Kermesite
Langite
Lepidocrocite
Linarite
Malachite
Manganite
Meneghinite
Metastibnite
Natrojarosite
Oxyplumboroméite
Plagionite
Plumbojarosite
Pyrite
var: Arsenian Pyrite
Quartz
'Roméite Group
var: Stibiconite'

Rosasite
Semseyite
Sénarmontite
Siderite
Sphalerite
Stibnite
Sulphur
Tetrahedrite
Valentinite
Zinkenite


51 entries listed. 46 valid minerals.

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References

- Schnorrer, G. (1993): Die Grube Apollo bei Raubach im Westerwald und ihre Mineralien. Lapis, 18 (3), 13-23.
- Wagner, T., and Cook, N.J. (1996): Bismuth-antimony sulfosalts from the Apollo mine, Siegerland, FRG. Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Abhandlungen 171, 135-153.
- Wagner, T., and Cook, N.J. (1997): Mineral reactions in sulphide systems as indicators of evolving fluid geochemistry; a case study from the Apollo Mine, Siegerland, FRG. Mineralogical Magazine 61, 573-590.
- Wagner, T., and Cook, N.J. (2000): Late-Variscan antimony mineralisation in the Rheinisches Schiefergebirge, NW Germany: evidence for stibnite precipitation by drastic cooling of high-temperature fluid systems. Mineralium Deposita 35, 206-222.
- A. Wittern (2001): "Mineralfundorte in Deutschland", Schweizerbart (Stuttgart)
- Wagner, T., and Schreiber, J. (2002): Lead isotope systematics of vein-type antimony mineralization. Mineralium Deposita 37, 185-197.

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