Grube Maffei, Nitzlbuch (Nitzelbuch), Auerbach, Oberpfalz, Bayern, Deutschland
Ancient iron mine.
Located at Nitzlbuch, about 2 km SE of Auerbach.
NOTE: "Nitzelbuch" and "Nitzelbuch Mine" are misnomers.
References
- von Gehlen, K., and Harder, H. (1956): Zur Genese der kretazischen Eisenerze von Auerbach (0berpfalz). Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 5, 118-138 (in German).
- Palache, C., Berman, H., & Frondel, C. (1951), The System of Mineralogy of James Dwight Dana and Edward Salisbury Dana, Yale University 1837-1892, Volume II: 772, 803, 960.
- Pfeufer, J. (1983): Genesis of the Auerbach-Sulzbach-Rosenberg-Amberg iron ore deposits (Upper Palatinate). Geol. Jahrb., Reihe D, 64, 3-69 (in German).
- Stanjek, H. (1983): Auerbach/Oberpfalz. Phosphatmineralien aus der Grube Leonie. Lapis 8 (3), 9-18; 42. (in German)
- Weiß, S. (1990): Mineralfundstellenatlas, Deutschland West. Weise Verlag (Munich).
- Dill, H. G., Weber, B. & Kaufhold, S. (2009): The origin of siderite-goethite-phosphate mineralization in the karst-related faultbound iron ore deposit Auerbach, Germany, a clue to the timing of hypogene and supergene Fe-Al phosphates in NE Bavaria. Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie - Abhandlungen 186, 283-307.
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