General Characteristics

County (administration): Plzeň Region
District (town): Tachov
Cadastre: Bezdružice
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 1141, 11414
Geological region: Teplá, Tachov, Smrčiny, Svatava, Cheb-Dyleň a Slavkov crystalline complexes, Thüringen - Vogtland Palaeozoic; Karlovy Vary Massif (SE part)
Accessibility: - no traffic restriction ( by car)
Technical object: placer
ID : 367

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: Pits, relics of a medieval gold panning. Basement is formed of gold -bearing Carboniferous sandstones and conglomerates which overlie crystalline rocks of the Teplá Crystalline Complex. Geologically and historically significant.
Regional geologic unit: Bohemian Massif - superficial deposits and post-Variscian magmatites - Upper Carboniferous and Permian - Central and Western Bohemian Late Palaeozoicum
Stratigraphy: paleozoikum - karbon
Subject: mining and mining impacts, archeology, mineralogy
Geological phenomenon: ore mineralization, mineral
Genesis: sedimentary
Rock: arkose, sandstone

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
Conflicts of interests: reclamation, forestry

References

Morávek, P. et al. (1992): Zlato v Českém masivu. - 248 p., ČGÚ Praha. Klomínský, J. - Pacovský, J. (1988): Historie psaná zlatem. - Svoboda, 154-155, Praha. Waldhauser, J. (1983): Užití zlata v pravěku zejména na Moravě a v Čechách, Moravské Muzeum Brno. 14-15 Mikulov. Klomínský, J. (1991): Atlas nerostných surovin ČR: Ložiska zlata. - ČGÚ Praha.

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Vrána P., 27.10.93
Updated by: Žáček Vladimír 14.06.10, Kukal Zdeněk 27.11.17

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 367 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-04-20]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/367.

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