| Location: | Germany, Europe |
| Lat / long: | 51.13213, 8.25228 |
| dep_id: | 10073068 |
| mrds_id: | W018878 |
| Commodity type: | metallic and nonmetallic |
| Major mineral: | Zinc |
| Minor mineral: | Lead, Sulfur-Pyrite, Barium-Barite |
| Operation type: | Unknown |
| Production size: | Large ammount of material produced |
| Development status: | Producer |
| ore: | Galena, Pyrite, Sphalerite |
| gangue: | Calcite, Quartz |
| orebody_fm: | CONCORDANT, LENTICULAR ELLIPSE |
| ore_ctrl: | Nearly Perfectly Concordant With The Bedding. Probably Precipitated From The Sea. |
| Reporter: | Schruben, Paul G. |
| hrock_unit: | Pharciceraskalk (Lagerkalk) Limestone;Stringocephalen Ore Beds;Lenneschieffer Slates And Shales |
| hrock_type: | Limestone |
| Structure: | Hercynian Massif., Ore Bed In The Elspe Syncline. Markhan, Halberbracht And Natheller Faults Cross It At Right Angles |
| Year first produced: | 1850 |
| References: |
- Deposit:: MOORE, J. M., 1971, FOLD STYLES IN THE OREBODIES OF MEGGEN AND RAMMELSBERG, GERMANY; INST. MIN. AND METALL. V 80 P B 108 - 115
- Deposit:: RIDGE, J. D., 1963, SUGGESTED VOLCANIC - SYNGENETIC ORIGIN FOR CERTAIN EUROPEAN MASSIVE SULPHIDE DEPOSITS; TRANS. AM. INST. MIN. ENGIN V 226 P. 30, 31
- Production:: RAUSCH, D. O., MARIACHER, B. C., 1970, AIME SYMP PB - ZN, V. 1 P 948-9.
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