Mine detail: Meggen

Previously called ''

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Location

Lat / long: 51.1238, 8.07398

Resource(B)

Primary: Zinc, Lead
Secondary: Sulfur
Other material: Barite, Chalcopyrite, Galena, Marcasite, Pyrite, Sphalerite

Production

Operation type: Underground
Development status: Past Producer
First production started: 1727

Geology

References

MAS4280250001
DEP10182604
Reference{Deposit:: WORLD MINES REGISTER 1976-77 P 91}{Deposit:: WORLD MINING, SEPTEMBER, 1971, P. 49-51.}{Deposit:: BRINCKMANN, J., AND SIEWERS, U., 1980, STRATABOUND SULPHIDE-}{Deposit:: BARITE DEPOSITS IN THE RHENOHERCYNIAN ZONE: ERZMETALL,}{Deposit:: BD. 33, NR.3, P. 137-140.}{Deposit:: GEOLOGY RUNDSCHAU, V. 63, P. 22-73.}{Deposit:: GEOLOGY RUNDSCHAU, 1974, P. 74-93.}{Deposit:: ERZMETALL, 1978, BD.31, H.12, P.560-566.}{Deposit:: ERZMETALL, 1979,BD.32, H.12, P.532-537.}{Deposit:: MINING MAGAZINE, NOVEMBER 1979, P. 426-433.}{Deposit:: METALLGESELLSCHAFT, ANNUAL REPORTS 1978-80.}{Deposit:: ERZMETALL, 1979, BD.32, H.2, P. 90-94.}{Deposit:: ERZMETALL, 1979, BD.32, H.7/8, P. 303-306.}{Deposit:: ENGINEERING/MINING JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL DIRECTORY OF MINING}{Deposit:: 1980, P. 130, 296.}{Deposit:: GLUCKAUF, 1976, 112, NR.10, P. 582-590.}{Deposit:: WORLD MINING, SEPTEMBER 1981, P. 53.}{Deposit:: ZIMMERMANN, R.A., AND AMSTUTZ, G.C., 1971, THE MEGGEN PYRITE}{Deposit:: BARITE DEPOSIT, IN MULLER, GERMAN, ED., SEDIMENTOLOGY}{Deposit:: OF PARTS OF CENTRAL EUROPE. INTER. SEDIMENTOL. CONG.,}{Deposit:: 8TH, HEIDELBERG, GUIDEBOOK, FRANKFURT AM MAIN, VERLAG}{Deposit:: WALDEMAR KRAMER, P. 254-261.}{Reserve-Resource:: E&MJ INTERNATIONAL DIRECTORY OF MINING, 1991}
ReporterDifrancesco, Carl A.