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Lower Saxony

St. Andreasberg silver district, Harz

Mineral locality Documented siteGray area

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Coins and tokensCoins and tokens
Crystals and mineralsCrystals and minerals

Also reported: arsenic, proustite, dyscrasite, harmotome, apophyllite on famous dumps.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: West Yorkshire Archaeology Advisory Service, Amy Downes, (CC BY-SA 2.0), Stephanie Clifford from Arlington, VA, USA (CC BY 2.0).

Why this spot

Hydrothermal Ag-As-Sb veins

One of Germany's most celebrated mineral localities for silvers and zeolites.

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