General Characteristics

County (administration): Moravia-Silesian Region
District (town): Bruntál
Cadastre: Stará Ves u Rýmařova,Stříbrné Hory
Map 1 : 50 000 (sheet No): 1442, 14424
Geological region: Silesicum and Žulová massif
Accessibility: - passable footpath
Technical object: collapse sink, prospection hole
ID : 894

Geology

Short characteristics of the site: Old pits. Relics of exploitation of a quartz vein within the Devonian quartzites and pre-Devonian blastomylonites. Also native gold was found. 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: metamorphic (general metamorphism)
Rock: phyllite, qurtzite

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

Mixa, P. - Pecina, V. - Koverdynský, B. a kol. (1990): Výsledky prospekce a ložiskového výzkumu v prognozní ploše Dobřečov (Au rudy). - MS Český geol. ústav Jeseník. Valenta, J. et al. (1988): Janovice - ruda. ZZ vyhledávacího průzkumu. - Unigeo Rýmařov.

Elaboration and Updating

Elaborated by: Fojt Bohuslav, 01.11.93
Updated by: Večeřa Josef 24.05.11, Gürtlerová Pavla 15.07.11

Citation

The database Significant geological localities of the Czech Republic: 894 [online]. Prague: Czech Geological Survey, 1998 [cit. 2024-05-03]. Available from: http:// lokality.geology.cz/894.

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