General Characteristics

County (administration): Olomouc Region
District (town): Jeseník
Cadastre: Horní Údolí
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 1511, 15113
Geological region: Silesicum and Žulová massif
Accessibility: - entry permit for car necessary
Technical object: mine, gallery
ID : 856

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: Medieval mine with preserved adit entrance, dumps, galleries, subsidences and another workings. Interesting example of historical mining methods. Part of galleries and other workings are accessible but not open for public.
Regional geologic unit: Bohemian Massif - crystalline complex and pre-Variscian Palaeozoic - Moravosilesian region - Silezicum
Stratigraphy: paleozoikum - devon
Subject: mining and mining impacts, economic geology
Geological phenomenon: ore mineralization
Genesis: anthropogenic (anthropogenic activity)
Rock: slate, schist

Territorial conservation

Level of protection: Technical or cultural monument
Protection of a geol. phenomenon: A - Protected Area (declared as Geological Locality)
Conflicts of interests: 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, 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, Kukal Zdeněk 07.12.17

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 856 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-05-05]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/856.

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