General Characteristics

County (administration): Olomouc Region
District (town): Jeseník
Cadastre: Horní Údolí
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 1511,1513, 15113,15131
Geological region: Silesicum and Žulová massif
Accessibility: - passable footpath
Technical object: mine
Excursion locality: yes
ID : 853

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: Complex of medieval mines. Pits, subsidence holes, adits and dumps partly preserved. Disseminated pyrite, chalcopyrite, sphalerite and galenite were exploited. Also gold mineralizaion associated with quartz veins. Historically interesting locality.
Regional geologic unit: Bohemian Massif - crystalline complex and pre-Variscian Palaeozoic - Moravosilesian region - Silezicum
Stratigraphy: paleozoikum - devon
Subject: mining and mining impacts, mineralogy, economic geology
Geological phenomenon: ore mineralization
Genesis: anthropogenic (anthropogenic activity)
Rock: slate, schist, qurtzite, alkali-feldspar-trachyandesite

Territorial conservation

Level of protection: Technical or cultural monument
Protection of a geol. phenomenon: A - Protected Area (declared as Geological Locality)
Conflicts of interests: exploitation, reclamation

References

Večeřa, J. (1991): Taponomie dolů ve Zlatých Horách. In.: Historie dolování ve Slezsku a na severní Moravě. Zlaté Hory. Zachař, Z. (1991): Současný stav hornických děl ve Zlatých Horách. In.: Historie dolování ve Slezsku a na severní Moravě. Zlaté Hory.; Večeřa Josef; Večeřová Viera (2007): Hornická osada ve Zlatohorském rudním revíru – „Erlitz“ nebo Altenberg. – Archeologia technica 18/2007, s. 60-63. Technické muzeum v Brně.; Večeřa, J.; Večeřová, V. (2010): Historie zlatohorských dolů (History of mining in Zlaté Hory). – PINKA, 98 s. Jeseník

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Večeřa Josef, 24.11.93
Updated by: Večeřa Josef 07.04.11

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 853 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-05-05]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/853.

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