Grube Christa, Großschloppen, Weißenstadt, Fichtelgebirge, Franken, Bayern, Deutschland
A uranium mine, operated from 1980 to 1988. The area is now landscaped, the dumps have been completely removed.
Located near Großschloppen, around 5 km NE of Weißenstadt.
References
- Dill, H. G. and KOLB, S.G. (1986): The Großschloppen-Hebanz uranium occurrences. A prototype of mineralized structure zones associated with desilification and silification processes (F.R. Germany/N Bavaria). - In: Uranium Vein-Type Deposits (Ed. H.D. Fuchs), International Atomic Energy Agency, 287-303
- S. Weiß: "Mineralfundstellen, Deutschland West", Weise (Munich), 1990
- Age and mineralogy of supergene uranium minerals — Tools to unravel geomorphological and palaeohydrological processes in granitic terrains (Bohemian Massif, SE Germany), H.G. Dill, A. Gerdes, B. Weber, Geomorphology 117 (2010) 44–65
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