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Krunkelbach Valley Uranium deposit, Menzenschwand, Black Forest, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

(Uranlagerstätte im Krunkelbachtal, Menzenschwand, Schwarzwald, Baden-Württemberg, Deutschland)

Uranium-bearing barite-fluorite veins, hosted by granite.
The deposit, famous for a wealth of secondary uranium minerals, was worked until 1990. The dumps are now removed and the area has been landscaped.
Located in the Krunkelbach valley, about 3 km NW of Menzenschwand.

Refs.:
- Bültemann (1965): Die Uranvorkommen Ellweiler in Rheinland-Pfalz und Menzenschwand im Schwarzwald. Erzmetall 18, 79-83
- Der Aufschluss 1967(3), 98-101
- Der Aufschluss 1967(5), 158-161
- Bültemann (1979): Das Uranvorkommen im Krunkelbachtal bei Menzenschwand.- Lapis 4 (7/8), 27-30
- Bültemann (1979) Uranlagerstätte "Krunkelbach" bei Menzenschwand, Hochschwarzwald, und ihr geologisch-lagerstätenkundlicher Rahmen. Z. dtsch. geol. Ges. 130, 597-618
- Lapis 1982(10), 22
- Lapis 1989(9), 24-26
- S. Weiß: "Mineralfundstellen, Deutschland West", Weise (Munich), 1990
- K. Walenta: "Die Mineralien des Schwarzwaldes", Weise (Munich), 1992
- http://www.mineralien-basel.ch/menzenschwand.htm
- http://mitglied.lycos.de/radioaktiv2/rad-standorte.htm#Uranmine%20Menzenschwand%A0
- http://www.mineralien-basel.ch/Div.%20Beitraege/Uran%20CD/mineralien_von_menzenschwand.htm





Map Reference: 47°50'20"N , 8°2'56"E

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Mineral List:
  • Acanthite
  • 'Agardite'
  • Arsenopyrite
  • Arsenovanmeersscheite (TL)
  • Arsenuranospathite
  • Arsenuranylite
  • Autunite
  • Bariopharmacosiderite
  • 'Barium-Uranophane' ?
  • Baryte
  • Bassetite
  • Beidellite
  • Bergenite
  • Billietite
  • Bismuth
  • Bornite
  • Brochantite
  • β-Uranophane
  • Cacoxenite
  • Calcite
  • Chalcocite
  • Chalcopyrite
  • Chistyakovaite ?
  • Chrysocolla
  • Churchite-(Dy)
  • Clausthalite
  • Coffinite
  • Compreignacite
  • Cookeite
  • Covellite
  • Cuprosklodowskite
  • Curite
  • Dewindtite
  • Digenite
  • Dolomite
  • Endellite
  • Fluorite
  • Galena
  • Goethite
  • Gold
    var: Electrum
  • Gorceixite
  • Gypsum
       var: Selenite
  • Heinrichite
  • Hematite
  • Ianthinite
  • Idaite
  • Johannite
  • Joliotite (TL)
  • Kaňkite
  • Kaolinite
  • Kasolite
  • Klockmannite
  • Langite
  • Lepidocrocite
  • Löllingite
  • Luzonite
  • Malachite
  • Marcasite
  • Meta-autunite
  • Metaheinrichite
  • Metakahlerite
  • Metatorbernite
  • Metauranocircite (TL)
  • Meta-uranopilite ?
  • Metazeunerite
  • Naumannite
  • Nickeline
  • Nontronite
  • Nováčekite
  • Phosphuranylite
  • Proustite ?
  • Pyrite
  • Pyrolusite
  • Pyrrhotite
  • Quartz
  • Rammelsbergite
  • Rutherfordine
  • Safflorite
  • Saléeite
  • Schoepite
  • Segnitite
  • Selenium
  • Silver
  • Sklodowskite ?
  • Soddyite
  • Spionkopite
  • Studtite
  • Tennantite
  • Torbernite
  • Umangite
  • Uraninite
  • Uranocircite
  • Uranophane
  • Uranopilite
  • Uranosilite (TL)
  • Uranospathite
  • Uranotungstite (TL)
  • Vandendriesscheite
  • Vanmeersscheite
  • Vyacheslavite
  • Weeksite
  • Wölsendorfite
  • Yarrowite
  • Zeunerite
  • Zippeite


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