(Steinbruch am Glasberg, Nieder-Beerbach, Nieder-Ramstadt, Odenwald, Hessen, Deutschland)
Gabbro with sulphide lenses, cut by a barite vein carrying silver and mercury ores.
Located on Glasberg hill, 1 km NE of Nieder-Beerbach (near Nieder-Ramstadt) and about 9.5 km SSE of Darmstadt.
Refs.:
- S. Weiss: "Mineralfundstellen, Deutschland West", Weise (Munich), 1990
- Min. Rec. 17:7
- Neues Jahrbuch Min. Mon.: 1996:313-320
- Am. Min.: 81:1513-1518
- Mineral News (Sep, 1997)
- E. Nickel, M. Fettel: "Odenwald", Sammlung geologischer Führer Bd. 65, 2nd ed., Bornträger (Berlin, Stuttgart), 1985
- Schmetzer, K. & Medenbach, O. (1986): "Kaatialaite from Nieder-Beerbach, Odenwald - a second occurrence", Neues Jahrbuch fuer Mineralogie, Monatshefte 1986, 337-342
- Belendorff, K. (1986): Erze und Sekundärmineralien von Nieder-Beerbach/Odenwald. LAPIS 11 (10), 25-28 +58.
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Map Reference: 49°47'50"N , 8°41'40"E
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