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Diabase quarry, Biberg (Bieberg), Saalfelden, Salzburg, Austria

Photo: Alfred Passath

Latitude: 47°25'31"N
Longitude: 12°48'47"E

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Diabasbruch, Biberg (Bieberg), Saalfelden, Salzburg, Österreich

Located SW of Saalfelden.
In the 1980s collecting was forbidden.

Owned by STRABAG company.
Currently (2009) a tunnel is driven (at an inclination of about 28°) up the mountain to gain underground access to two large diabase lenses higher up on the mountain. These lenses, and additionally metasandstones and metagreywackes, will be exploited in a large open-pit quarrying operation and the rock material will be transported through the tunnel down to the processing plant.
The quarry will be closed and backfilled starting sometime in 2010.

Mineral List

51 entries listed. 38 valid minerals.

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References

- Strasser, A. (1966): Axinit und andere Mineralien vom Diabasbruch bei Saalfelden, Salzburg. Der Aufschluss, 17 (4), 99-101.
- Meixner, H. (1971): Zur "Salzburg"-Exkursion der Österr.Mineralogischen Gesellschaft Oktober 1971 - 7) Zum "Diabas"(Proterobasspilit) vom Piberg bei Saalfelden; Der Karinthin, vol.65, p.244-246.
- Fischer, T. (1978): Der Diabasbruch Saalfelden. Lapis, 3 (8), 15.
- Lechler, A. (1985): Forum: Aktuelle MM-Fundstellen in Österreich (Biberg). Emser Hefte, Nr.2, 22.
- Berg, I. (1985): Neue Mineralien vom Biberg bei Saalfelden. Lapis, 10 (3), 35.
- Lapis Redaktion (1985): Lapis Aktuell: Sammelverbot am Biberg bei Saalfelden, Österreich. Lapis, 10 (7), 5.
- Hochleitner, R. (1986): Lapis Aktuell: Sammelverbot am Biberg bei Saalfelden. Lapis, 11 (3), 4.
- A. Strasser: Die Minerale Salzburgs (1989)

External Links

- http://www.diabas.at/
- http://www.geologie.ac.at/filestore/download/AL0005_105_A.pdf

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