St Andreasberg, St Andreasberg District, Harz, Lower Saxony, Germany

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St Andreasberg, Revier St Andreasberg, Harz, Niedersachsen, Deutschland

Historical silver mining area, located around 25 km SE of Clausthal-Zellerfeld. Quartz-calcite veins, carrying a suite of lead-copper-silver-arsenic ores, hosted by diabase included devonian schists. Today, all the mines are closed.

References

- Klaproth, M.H. (1797): Untersuchung des Kreuzsteins vom Harz, Beiträge zur chemischen Kenntniss der Mineralkörper, Zweiter Band, Rottmann Berlin, 80-83
- Klaproth, M.H. (1802): Chemische Untersuchung des Spießglanz-Silbers von Andreasberg, Beiträge zur chemischen Kenntniss der Mineralkörper, Dritter Band, Rottmann Berlin, 173-177.
- WILKE, A. (1954): Die Erzgänge von St. Andreasberg. Der Aufschluss 5 (7/8), 159-164.
WILKE, A. (1958): Die Erzgänge von St. Andreasberg. Der Aufschluss 9 (8/9), 193-198.
- Lapis 1986(3)
- Lapis 1989(7/8)
- Gebhard, G. (1988): Harzer Bergbau und Minerale: St. Andreasberg. , xx pp.
- GRUNDMANN, G. & SCHNORRER-KÖHLER, G. (1989): 'reichlich rothgültige Erze nesterweise' Die Mineralien des Bergbaubezirks St. Andreasberg im Harz. Lapis 14 (7), 23-67.
- Gebhard, G. (1990): Harzer Bergbau und Minerale: St. Andreasberg. 2nd edition, Verlag Gebhard-Giesen, xx pp.
- Weiß, S. (1990): Mineralfundstellen, Deutschland West, Weise, Munich

External Links

- http://www.lehrbergwerk.de/alt/main_hist_gruben_im_revier.html

Mineral List

Mineral list contains entries from the region specified including sub-localities

Acanthite Actinolite Adamite var: Cuprian Adamite Adelite Agardite-(La) Albite 'Allemontite' Allophane var: Cupro-Allophane Analcime Anatase Andradite Anglesite Anhydrite Annabergite Antimony 'Apophyllite' Apophyllite-(KF) Aragonite Argentopyrite Arsenic Arseniosiderite Arsenolite (TL) Arsenopyrite 'Axinite' Azurite Bariopharmacosiderite Baryte Bayldonite Beaverite-(Cu) Berthierite Berzelianite Bohdanowiczite Bornite Boulangerite Bournonite Breithauptite (TL) 'Brewsterite' Brianyoungite Brochantite Calcite Caledonite Carminite Cerussite Cervantite 'Chabazite' Chalcocite Chalcopyrite Chalcostibite Chervetite Chlorargyrite 'Chlorite Group' Chrysocolla Claudetite

Clausthalite Clinochlore Cobaltite Conichalcite Copper Covellite Cubanite Cuprite Cuproroméite Datolite Devilline Diaphorite Dickite Dolomite Duftite Dyscrasite Epidote Erythrite Eucairite Ferroselite Fizélyite Fluorite Galena Galenobismutite Gersdorffite Gmelinite-Na Gold Grossular Guanajuatite Guérinite Gypsum Häggite Harmotome (TL) Hematite Hemimorphite Heulandite-Ca Hörnesite Hydrocerussite Hydrozincite Illite Jamesonite Jarosite Johannsenite Kaolinite Karelianite Kermesite 'K Feldspar var: Adularia' Klockmannite Köttigite Langite Laumontite Lautite Lavendulan Lead

Leadhillite Lepidocrocite Limonite Linarite Löllingite Magnetite Malachite Marcasite Maucherite Metastibnite Miargyrite Millerite Mimetite Minium Montmorillonite Mottramite Nacrite Natrolite Naumannite Nickeline Nickelskutterudite Nolanite Nontronite Olivenite Opal Orpiment Osarizawaite Oxyplumboroméite Pararealgar Parasymplesite Pharmacolite Pharmacosiderite Phaunouxite 'Phillipsite' Picropharmacolite Pitticite Polybasite Posnjakite Prehnite Proustite Pyrargyrite Pyrite 'Pyrobitumen var: Thucholite' Pyrolusite Pyromorphite Pyrostilpnite Pyrrhotite Quartz var: Chalcedony Rammelsbergite Ranciéite Rauenthalite Realgar Retgersite

Rhodochrosite Richelsdorfite Romanèchite Roméite Group var: Stetefeldtite var: Stibiconite Rosasite Rösslerite Safflorite Samsonite (TL) Saponite Schulenbergite Schultenite Scolecite Scorodite Segnitite Semseyite Serpierite Siderite Silver var: Amalgam Skutterudite Smithsonite Smythite Sphalerite Stephanite Sternbergite Stibarsen Stibnite 'Stilbite' Stilbite-Ca Stilleite Strontianite Sulphur Talc Tennantite 'Tennantite-Tetrahedrite Series' Tetrahedrite Thomsonite-Ca Tiemannite Titanite 'Tourmaline' Ullmannite Umangite Uraninite var: Pitchblende Valentinite Vanadinite 'Wad' Witherite Wollastonite Xanthoconite Zincselenide Zircon Zoisite

230 entries listed. 193 valid minerals. 4 type localities (valid minerals).

Localities in this Region

Germany Lower Saxony Harz St Andreasberg District St Andreasberg Abendröthe Mine Bergmannstrost Mine Catharina Neufang Mine Claus-Friedrich Mine Felicitas Mine Franz-August Mine Fünf Bücher Mosis Mine Gnade Gottes Mine Jakobsglück Mine

Germany Lower Saxony Harz St Andreasberg District St Andreasberg Juliane-Charlotte Mine (Juliane Mine) Prinz Maximilian Mine Reedensglück Mine Roter Bär Mine Samson Mine Segen Gottes Mine St Andreaskreuz Mine Theuerdank Mine Wennsglückt Mine