Grube Arme Hilfe, Ullersreuth, Hirschberg, Vogtland, Thüringen, Deutschland
Ancient iron and copper Mine, closed in 1899.
Located 3 km N of Hirschberg.
Note: Ullersreuth is not in Saxony (as given in many references).
Note on the "liroconite" reported in the old literature:
It was originally reported by Breithaupt, A. (1841): Vollständiges Handbuch der Mineralogie, Bd. 2, Dresden und Leipzig, p. 158, who later, however, noted that this was a wrong identification and that the sample was in fact "Tagilite" (= Pseudomalachite): Breithaupt, A. (1865): Mineralogische Studien. 3. Tagilit.- Berg- und hüttenmännische Zeitung 24, 309-312
A SXRD study of an old sample in the collection of the Natural History Museum Vienna has confirmed this (U. Kolitsch).
References
- Dana 6 (1892): 837.
- 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: 931, 1051.
- Thomas Witzke, Fritz Rüger, Mirko Martin, Jürgen Graf and Mario Baum (2001): Ullersreuth, ein traditionelles thüringisches Bergbaugebiet. Lapis 26 (12), 13-27.
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