Alt & Neu Bescheert Glück Mines (incl. Dorschenmühle), Lichtenberg Copper mines, Lichtenberg, Bad Steben, Franconian Forest, Franconia, Bavaria, Germany

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Gruben Alt & Neu Bescheert Glück (einschl. Dorschenmühle), Lichtenberger Kupfergruben, Lichtenberg, Bad Steben, Frankenwald, Franken, Bayern, Deutschland

Copper-bearing quartz-fluorite veins near the contact of devonian schists and diabase, once worked for copper and, later, for fluorite by the mines "Alt Bescheert Glück" and "Neu Bescheert Glück", of which some dumps still remain. The host rocks are disseminated by mineralized clefts from which nice micromounts were collected in the past. Outcrops and loose boulders bearing a similar mineralization also occur in the area east and west of Dorschenmühle, and around the nearby Motocross course.

Located about 1.5 km north of Lichtenberg.

References

- F. Müller: "Bayerns steinreiche Ecke", 2nd ed., Oberfränkische Verlagsanstalt und Druckerei GmbH (Hof), 1984
- A. Wittern: "Mineralfundorte in Deutschland", Schweizerbart (Stuttgart), 2001, 197
- Lapis 1988(11), 32
- Meier, S. and Dünkel, B. (2010): Mineralien von der Dorschenmühle bei Lichtenberg, Franken. Lapis, 35 (10), 60-64; 90.

Mineral List

Actinolite Albite Analcime Anatase Andradite Ankerite 'Apatite' Aragonite var: Flos Ferri Arsenopyrite Aurichalcite Azurite Baryte Bismuth Bismuthinite

Bismutite Bismutoferrite Brochantite Brookite Calcite Chalcopyrite Chamosite var: Thuringite 'Chlorite Group' Chrysocolla Connellite Copper Cuprite Diopside Epidote

Fluorite Galena Gersdorffite Goethite Grossular Gypsum Hematite var: Iron Rose 'Hydromuscovite' Langite Limonite Malachite Microcline Neustädtelite

Preisingerite Pseudomalachite Pyrite Quartz Siderite Silver Sphalerite 'Stilbite' Stilpnomelane Tetrahedrite ? Titanite Vivianite 'Wad'

55 entries listed. 46 valid minerals.