In the area around Ober-Ostern, baryte was mined from a swarm of SE-trending baryte veins from around 1850 until the second world war. The veins are hosted in gneiss, are up to 500 m long, and carry minor amounts of iron and manganese ores. Along with the deposits at Klein-Umstadt and Ober-Kainsbach, it was one of the economically most important baryte mining districts in the Odenwald range.
References
- Aufschluss 1977(6), 222
- Lapis 1980 (7/8), 19-20
- Nickel, E., and Fettel, M. (1985): Odenwald. Sammlung geologischer Führer Vol. 65, 2nd ed., Bornträger (Berlin, Stuttgart), 231 pp.
- Weiß, S. (1990): Mineralfundstellenatlas, Deutschland West. Weise (Munich), 320 pp.
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