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Germany, Saxony

Freiberg District, Germany

Mineral locality Inferred from historyGray area

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Crystals and mineralsCrystals and minerals

Also reported: galena, pyrargyrite, barite.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Stephanie Clifford from Arlington, VA, USA (CC BY 2.0).

Why this spot

Rockhounding locality: Ag-Pb-Zn hydrothermal veins

Historic silver mining center of Saxony, extensively documented mineralogically.

Before you go

Hazards noted for this site.

Historic workings, dumps

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