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Stříbro (Mies), Plzeň Region, Bohemia (Böhmen; Boehmen), Czech Republic

Photo: A. Tomek
Stříbro, Plzeňský Kraj

Located about 25 km west of Plzeň.
Hydrothermal Pb(-Zn) vein deposit exploited from 12th century. Veins in Upper Proterozoic metamorphic rocks. More than 50 mineralized veins are known, max. length 2.4 km and up to 50 cm thick (extremes over 3 m). Mineralization is very simple - mainly quartz, minor baryte and carbonates, ore minerals are galena and sphalerite, pyrite with marcasite, rare chalcopyrite and arsenopyrite.
Well known is the oxidation zone, which goes about 130 m deep. The most interesting were two generations of abundant cerussite crystals up to 5 cm large (described by J. T. Lindacker in 1791). Pyromorphite is known as green, brown or gray hexagonal crystals and also as an interesting calcium-rich variety, which was desribed as a new mineral "miesite" (botryoidal gray aggregates). Part of the lead is substituted by max. 9 % CaO.

Mineral List

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Acanthite
Anglesite
Ankerite
Aragonite
Arsenopyrite
Azurite
Baryte
Barytocalcite
Beudantite
Brochantite
Calcite
Cassiterite
Cerussite
Chalcopyrite
Chrysocolla
Dolomite
Epsomite
Fluorite
Galena
Gibbsite
Goslarite
Greenockite
Gypsum
Harmotome
Hematite
'Limonite'
Linarite
Malachite
Marcasite
Melanterite
Minium
Opal
Oxyplumboroméite
Palygorskite
Pyrite
Pyromorphite
Pyromorphite
var: Ca-bearing Pyromorphite

Pyrrhotite
Quartz
var: Chalcedony
Scheelite
Siderite
Silver
Sphalerite
Ullmannite
Uraninite


60 entries listed. 43 valid minerals.

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References

- Chrt, Jiri (1999): Barite occurrences in Pernarec and in the Stribro vicinity. Uhli-Rudy-Geologicky Pruzkum 6(12), 26-30.

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