This list contains an overview of the mines in the
Harz Mountains
The Harz () is a highland area in northern Germany. It has the highest elevations for that region, and its rugged terrain extends across parts of Lower Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, and Thuringia. The name ''Harz'' derives from the Middle High German ...
of central
Germany
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, formerly one of the most productive mining regions in the world.
Bad Grund
Bad Grund (Harz) is a town in the district of Göttingen, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated in the western Harz, approx. 7 km west of Clausthal-Zellerfeld, and 10 km north of Osterode am Harz.
Bad Grund is also the name of the ...
Bad Lauterberg
Bad Lauterberg is a town in the district of Göttingen, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated in the southern Harz, approx. 15 km southwest of Braunlage, and 20 km southeast of Osterode am Harz.
Bad Lauterberg is known ''inter alia' ...
pinge
A ''Pinge'' (pronounced "pinger", plural: ''Pingen'') or ''Binge'' ("binger") is the name given in German-speaking Europe to a wedge-, ditch- or funnel-shaped depression in the terrain caused by mining activity. This depression or sink-hole is fr ...
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* ''Erbtiefster Shaft''
* '' Brauner Hirsch Pit '', 1690 - 1755, 70 m depth, silver and copper ores
* '' Grüne Linde Pit '', 1693 - 1724, probably silver ore
* ''Grüne Tanne and Kahlebergsglück Pit ''
* ''Elisabeth Julians Pit ''
* ''Haus Hannover Pit '', 1718 - 1721, probably silver ore
* ''Haus Wolfenbüttel Pit '', 1718 - 1760, 60 m depth, probably silver ore
* ''Hermann Pit '', 1681 - 1696, probably silver ore
* ''Herzog Anton Ulcontaining Pit '', 1673 - 1807, 210 m depth, silver-containing galena
* ''Herzog August Wilhelm Pit '', 1672 - 1738, probably silver ore
* Herzog August Pit, 1663 - 1681 (1931), 75 m depth, silver-containing galena
* Herzog August and Johann Friedcontaining Pit, 1681 - 1931, 430 m depth, silver-containing galena
* Johann Friedcontaining Pit, 1670 - 1681 (1931), 40 m depth, silver-containing galena
* ''Herzog Georg Wilhelm Pit '', 1664 - 1718, probably silver ore
* ''Landes Herrn Pit ''
* ''Neue Gesellschaft Pit '', 1670 - 1745, 135 m depth, probably silver ore
* ''Neuer Edmund Pit '', 1718 - 1755, kein Erzfund
* ''Neues Zellerfeld Pit '', 1703 - 1745, 110 m depth, probably silver-containing galena
* ''Prinzen Pit '', 1691 - 1705, 40 m depth, probably silver ore
* ''Silberner Bock Pit ''
* ''Silberner Georg Pit '', 1692 - 1696, probably silver ore
* ''Stadt Braunschweig Pit '', 1673 - 1686, probably silver ore
* ''Zellerfelder Hoffnung Pit'', 1716 - 1866, 40 m depth, probably silver-containing galena
* ''Grumbacher Gallery'', built 1719 - 1730, length 1.8 km
* Kahlenberg Shaft, 1922 - 1929, prospecting shaft
* 1st Lichtloch Shaft
* 3rd Lichtloch Shaft
* Drei Bäre Shaft'
* Haus Braunschweig Shaft
* Kahlenbergsglück Shaft
* Neues Lichtloch Shaft
Clausthal-Zellerfeld
Clausthal-Zellerfeld is a town in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is located in the southwestern part of the Harz mountains. Its population is approximately 15,000. The City is the location of the Clausthal University of Technology. The health resort ...
Rosenhof Pit
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Demographics
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Goslar
Goslar (; Eastphalian: ''Goslär'') is a historic town in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is the administrative centre of the district of Goslar and located on the northwestern slopes of the Harz mountain range. The Old Town of Goslar and the Mines ...
Lautenthal
The formerly free mining town ('' Bergstadt'') of Lautenthal in Germany is a state-recognised, climatic spa with around 1,570 inhabitants and has been part of the borough of Langelsheim since 1972.
Geography
Lautenthal lies in the Innerst ...
Sankt Andreasberg
Sankt Andreasberg is a former town in the Goslar (district), district of Goslar, in Lower Saxony, Germany. Since 1 November 2011, it is part of the town Braunlage. It is situated in the Harz, approximately 7 km west of Braunlage proper, and 2 ...
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Roter Bär Pit
The Roter Bär Pit (german: Grube Roter Bär) in Sankt Andreasberg in the Upper Harz is an iron ore mine that was worked from about 1800 until the 1860s. Today it is operated as a show mine under the name of Roter Bär Pit Educational Mine by the ...
Educational Mine
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Samson Pit
The Samson Pit or Samson Mine (german: Grube Samson) is an historic silver mine in Sankt Andreasberg in the Upper Harz region of central Germany.Wennsglückt Pit
Schulenberg im Harz (Upper and Middle Schulenberg)
including Festenburg im Harz
Bockswiese Field (eastern section), formerly ''Bockswiese-Schulenberg-Festenburg Field''
* ''Altenauer Hoffnung Gallery''
* ''Festenburg Gallery'', mentioned in 1720
* ''Gelbe Lilie Pit / Neue Gelbe Lilie Pit '', 1669 - 1817, 250 m depth, silver ore, chalcopyrite
* Glücksrad Pit, 1666 - 1824, 250 m depth, silver ore, chalcopyrite
* ''Gnade Gottes Pit '', 1673 - 1769, 270 m depth, probably silver ore, chalcopyrite
* ''Haus Kronenburg Pit'', 1691 - 1705 (1795), 145 m depth, probably silver ore
* ''Herzog August Wilhelm Pit'', 1703 - 1754, 125 m depth, probably silver-containing galena
* Juliane Sophia Pit, 1776 - 1904, 400 m depth, silver-containing galena
* '' König Karl Pit'', 1711 -1716, probably silver-containing galena
* '' Kronenburgs Glück Pit'', 1705 - 1795, 292 m depth, silver-containing galena
* '' Kron Festenburg Pit''
* '' Königin Elisabeth Pit'', 1713 - 1803, probably silver-containing galena
* '' Neue Gelbe Lilie Pit '', siehe ''Gelbe Lilie''
* '' Neuer Engel Pit '', 1710 - 1736, probably silver-containing galena
* '' Neues Schulenbergs Glück Pit '', see ''St. Martins Mine''
* '' Prinzen Pit '', 1705 - 1737, 190 m depth, probably silver-containing galena
* '' Schulenbergs Glück Pit '', 1690 - 1705 (1795), silver-containing galena
* '' St. Anna am Schulenberge Pit ''
* ''St. Urban Pit '', 1692 - 1814, 253 m depth, silver-containing galena, chalcopyrite
* ''Unvergängliche Gabe and Reiche Gesellschaft am Schulenberge Pit''
* ''Weißer Schwan Pit'', 1691 - 1799, 290 m depth, probably silver-containing galena
* ''Kleine Mertens Zeche'', 1691 - 1738 (1803), probably silver ore
* ''Caroline Shaft ''
* '' Grüne Tanne Shaft''
* ''Schulenberger Gallery''
* ''St. Martins Mine'' (Mertens Mine), 1697 -1791, probably silver-containing galena
* ''Tiefer Schulenberger Gallery'', built vor 1600 - 1745, length 2,9 km
* ''Kaiser Heinreich Mine''
* ''St. Johannes über Kaiser Heincontaining am Schulenberge Mine''
baryte
Baryte, barite or barytes ( or ) is a mineral consisting of barium sulfate ( Ba S O4). Baryte is generally white or colorless, and is the main source of the element barium. The ''baryte group'' consists of baryte, celestine (strontium sulfate), ...
Glasebach Pit
The Glasebach Pit (german: Grube Glasebach) is a mining museum and former pit in the Harz fluorspar mining area near Straßberg in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt. It is run by the East Harz Mining Society (''Montanverein Ostharz e. V.''). ...
Röhrigschacht
The Röhrigschacht ("Röhrig Shaft") is an old copper slate mine which is now is a mining museum and show mine in the village of Wettelrode in the county of Mansfeld-Südharz in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt.
Location
The ''Röhrigschacht' ...