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Hühnerkobel Mt., Rabenstein, Zwiesel, Bavarian Forest, Lower Bavaria, Bavaria, Germany

(Hühnerkobel, Rabenstein, Zwiesel, Bayerischer Wald, Niederbayern, Bayern, Deutschland)

Ancient quartz quarry, abandoned in 1924, exploring a phosphate pegmatite hosted in the contact zone of two-micas granite and garnet gneiss. Located on the northeast slope of Hühnerkobel Mt., 2.5 km NW of Rabenstein and about 6 km NW of Zwiesel.



References:
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: 960, 977, 998.

- Der Aufschluss, special edition 1971, 61-74

- Der Aufschluss 1974(11), 596-603

- Der Aufschluss 1979(3), 93-99

- Der Aufschluss 1980, special edition no. 31, 55-58

- Weiß, S. (1990) "Mineralfundstellen, Deutschland West", Weise (Munich).





Mineral List:
Albite
Alluaudite
Anatase
'Apatite'
Arrojadite-(KFe)
Arsenopyrite
Autunite
Beraunite
Bertrandite
Beryl
Biotite
Cacoxenite
Chalcopyrite
Columbite
Diadochite
Dufrénite
Eosphorite
Fairfieldite
Ferrisicklerite
Frondelite
Graftonite
Hagendorfite
Heterosite
Hureaulite
Kaolinite
Keckite
Kingsmountite
Laueite
Limonite
Löllingite
Ludlamite
Meta-autunite
Mitridatite
Montgomeryite
Muscovite
Orthoclase
Oxiberaunite
Phosphoferrite (TL)
Phosphosiderite
Pyrite
Pyrolusite
Pyrrhotite
Quartz
var: Rose Quartz
Quartz
var: Smoky Quartz

Rittmannite
Robertsite
Rockbridgeite
Spessartine
Sphalerite
Stewartite
Strengite
Strunzite
Torbernite
'Tourmaline'
Triphylite (TL)
Uraninite
var: Pitchblende

Uranophane
Vivianite
Whitmoreite
Wolfeite
Xanthoxenite (TL)
Zodacite
Zwieselite


64 entries listed. 55 valid minerals. 3 type localities (valid minerals).

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