Bleyberg mine, Plombières, Liège, Wallonia, Belgium

Unique galena specimen from the old Bleiberg mine. This specimen was recovered before the closing of the mine in 1885. Ex Gembloux highschool and Gilbert Gauthier specimen. Collection and photo, Paul De Bondt.

© Photo and Collection, Paul De Bondt

White hydrozinkite balls with brown smitsoniet.

© Heyninck A

Pyromorphite on brown smithsonite.

© Michel Blondieau

Typical pale pink pyromorphite from the Bleyberg vein.

© Michel Blondieau

Smithsonite crystals from that old mining area are often brown.

© Michel Blondieau

Pyromorphite on smithsonite matrix.

© Michel Blondieau

Blende with galena from Plombières. A thin cut and polished slab of blende with galena. Collected on the dump of the lead mine in Plombières. Collected and polished by Theo Jans in 1988. Collection and photo François Wouters.

© François Wouters

Collected in the late 1980's.

© Leon Hupperichs

Collected in the late 1980's.

© Leon Hupperichs

Sphalerite "Blende XLS" From the collection Georges Vanacker (1923-1992). https://www.mindat.org/photo-901938.html Collection and photo, François Wouters.

© François Wouters

Collected in the late 1980's.

© Leon Hupperichs

Strickblende from Plombières. Skeletal "knitted" galena crystals (gestrickte Bleiglanze) enclosed in Schalenblende. The dendrites are entirely covered with colloidal fine-grained Sphalerite, with remaining open fissures between the individual branches. Sawn and polished by Charles Grotenclas. Described by Max Braun in 1857, mining engineer ...

© François Wouters

Good specimen of quartz from Bleyberg. The other side of the specimen is covered with smoky quartz. The mineral is quite rare in the district. Collection and photo, Paul De Bondt.

© Collection and Copyright © 2013, Paul De Bondt

Good specimen of smoky quartz from Bleyberg. Collection and photo, Paul De Bondt.

© Collection and Copyright © 2013, Paul De Bondt

Light pink to almost white pyromorphite crystals on a bed of smoky quartz crystals. Very rare for the locality.

© Leon Hupperichs

© Leon Hupperichs

© Leon Hupperichs

© Leon Hupperichs

© Heyninck A

Light pink to almost white pyromorphite crystals on a bed of smoky quartz crystals. Very rare for the locality.

© Leon Hupperichs

© Heyninck A

Quartz on matrix.Var. Smoky Quartz.

© Heyninck A

Nice druse with galena and aragonite.

© Heyninck A

© Heyninck A

© Heyninck A

Some sfalerite crystals on matrix.Pieces of that size where difficult to find in the dump.

© Heyninck A

© Heyninck A

© Heyninck A

Sphalerite "Blende XLS" From the collection Georges Vanacker (1923-1992). Collection and photo, François Wouters.

© François Wouters

Sfalerite with a thin layer of schalenblende at the top.

© Heyninck A

© Heyninck A

A thick piece of galena with some quartz and sphalerite.

© Heyninck A

Smoky quartz on matrix.

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Nice (ferroan)calcite,rare to find on the dump with crystals.

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Light pink to almost white pyromorphite crystals on a bed of smoky quartz crystals. Very rare for the locality.

© Leon Hupperichs

Typical sfalerite ore with some quartz.There are some small sfalerite cristals on this piece.

© Heyninck A

© Heyninck A

Spherical white aggregates and radial-shaped groups of Hydrozincite crystals on matrix. Photo and collection Frank Loman.

Strickblende from Plombières. Skeletal "knitted" galena crystals (gestrickte Bleiglanze) enclosed in Schalenblende. The dendrites are entirely covered with colloidal fine-grained Sphalerite, with remaining open fissures between the individual branches. Sawn and polished by Charly Grooteclaes. Described by Max Braun in 1857, mining engineer ...

© Collection and photo François Wouters

© Heyninck A

Galeniet with a little sphalerite. Found at the dump in Plombiéres.

© Heyninck A

© JariVdd

Sphalerite with a little quartz. Found at the dump in Plombiéres.

© Heyninck A

Dumps of the former Bleyberg Mine and Bleyberg smelter, nowadays a nature reserve. September 2006.

© Leon Hupperichs

The Bleyberg Mine in the 1850's.

Dumps of the former Bleyberg Mine and Bleyberg smelter, nowadays a nature reserve. September 2006.

© Leon Hupperichs

Dumps of the former Bleyberg Mine and Bleyberg smelter, nowadays a nature reserve. September 2006.

© Leon Hupperichs

Plombières, former Bleyberg mine (Pb-Zn), view on dumps (29/10/2013)

© Alan Backaert

On the slag dump from Bleyberg mine there where a lot of new formed minerals to find like hydrozinkite,gypsum,malachite,linarite and other.

© Heyninck A

Dump on the north side from the Bleyberg mine.There was mostly smitsonit,calcite,pyromorfite and siderite to found.

© Heyninck A

The person that you can see on his knees was I there at that time busy to looking for minerals.This dump on the south side was good for quartz,galena,sfalerite,smitsonite and other minerals.

© Heyninck A