General Characteristics

County (administration): Karlovy Vary Region
District (town): Karlovy Vary
Cadastre: Jelení u Nových Hamrů
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 0143, 01433
Geological region: Krušné hory Mts. crystalline complex; Karlovy Vary Massif (SW part)
Technical object: old mine workings
Excursion locality: yes
ID : 2529

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: A former quarry for tin ore on Hirschkopf Hill at Jelení near Nové Hamry. The quarry is 100 m long and 8 m deep and is surrounded by other mine workings like a shaft, two galleries and shallow pits. These workings follow a series of intersecting bodies of tin-bearing greisens in granites of the Karlovy Vary pluton.
Regional geologic unit: Bohemian Massif - crystalline complex and pre-Variscian Palaeozoic - Saxothuringicum - Krušné hory Mts. Pluton
Stratigraphy: variské (hercynské) stáří vyvřelin
Subject: mining and mining impacts, geology, structural geology
Geological phenomenon: outcrop
Genesis: magmatic, anthropogenic (anthropogenic activity)
Rock: granite

Territorial conservation

Level of protection: Registered geological localities suggested for protection
Protection of a geol. phenomenon: B - Geological phenomenon is the reason for a recommendation to the protection
Part of the Geopark: Egeria
Conflicts of interests: tourism, forestry

References

Rojík, P. (2000): Historie cínového hornictví v západním Krušnohoří. - Okresní muzeum a knihovna Sokolov.

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Rojík Petr, 17.03.06
Updated by: Mlčoch Bedřich 07.10.09

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 2529 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-05-04]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/2529.

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