General Characteristics

County (administration): Olomouc Region
District (town): Šumperk
Cadastre: Vermířovice
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 1442, 14421
Geological region: Silesicum and Žulová massif
Accessibility: - access without footpath
Technical object: waste dump, gallery, old mine workings
ID : 845

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: Old mine works, dumps and adit entrances, mostly caved in. Stratiform banded magnetite ores of Sydvaranger type were exploited. They are embedded in pre-Devonian biotitic gneisses of the Desná Group. Mineralogically and historically significant locality.
Regional geologic unit: Bohemian Massif - crystalline complex and pre-Variscian Palaeozoic - Moravosilesian region - Silezicum
Stratigraphy: paleozoikum
Subject: mining and mining impacts, economic geology, mineralogy
Geological phenomenon: ore mineralization
Genesis: metamorphic (general metamorphism)
Rock: gneiss

Territorial conservation

Level of protection: Interesting geological localities in Protected landscape area
Protection of a geol. phenomenon: C - Geological phenomenon is the reason for a registration in the database of CGS
Part of LEPA (Large-size especially protected areas): CHKO (Protected landscape area) - Jeseníky
Conflicts of interests: without conflicts

References

Kruťa, T. - Paděra, K. - Pouba, Z. - Sládek, R. (1968): Die Mineralienparagenese in dem mittleren Teile des Altvatergebirges (Hrubý Jeseník, Hohes Gesenke, ČSSR. Fortsetzung. - Acta Mus. Mor., 53, 5-80. Brno. Pouba, Z. (1970): Pre-Cambrian banded magnetite ores of the Desná Dome. - Sbor. geol. věd, lož. geol., 12, 7-64. Praha.

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Fojt Bohuslav, 01.11.93
Updated by: Večeřa Josef 23.05.11

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 845 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-04-28]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/845.

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