General Characteristics

County (administration): Olomouc Region
District (town): Jeseník
Cadastre: Žulová
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 1422, 14223
Geological region: Orlice-Sněžník, Nové Město and Staré Město crystalline complexes
Technical object: old mine workings, waste dump, collapse sink, prospection hole, gallery
ID : 601

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: Old mining works, pits and dumps. Quartz vein follows a fracture zone a cuts hydrothermally altered amfibolite, gneiss and micaschist. Mineralization in the form of chalcopyrite and galenite occurrences. Also baryte present. Mineralogically important locality.
Regional geologic unit: Bohemian Massif - crystalline complex and pre-Variscian Palaeozoic - Lugicum - Orlice-Sněžník crystalline complex
Stratigraphy: paleozoikum
Subject: economic geology, mining and mining impacts, mineralogy

Territorial conservation

Level of protection: Registered interesting geological localities
Conflicts of interests: without conflicts

References

Fojt,B.,Durišová,J.,Hladíková,J.,Kopa,D.,Skácel,J.,Šmejkal,V.,Zimák,J./1986/: Paragenetická studie měďnorudného výskytu Stříbrník u Nýznerova.-Čas.Slez.Muz.,A,35,143-169.Opava. Skácel,J./1989/: Rudní indicie a perspektivy styčné oblasti lugika a silezika.-Scripta Fac.Sci.Nat.Univ.Purk.Brun.,19,3,99-112.Brno.

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Fojt Bohuslav, Zimák Jiří, 01.11.93

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 601 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-04-23]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/601.

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