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Tarnowskie Gory lead-silver-zinc mine

Tarnowskie Gory lead-silver-zinc mine, Poland. Heritage site, mining lead, silver, zinc.

Why Tarnowskie Gory lead-silver-zinc mine is famous

Silesian lead-silver-zinc mining site with an underground water management system, on the World Heritage List since 2017. Dates and output are not verified from an opened page.1,2

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What kind of deposit

Mississippi Valley-type (MVT) lead-zinc

Tarnowskie Gory lead-silver-zinc mine today

Where lead is mined todayWhere silver is mined todayWhere zinc is mined todayMining in Poland

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People

Founded byGeorg von GiescheFounder of modern calamine digging in Upper Silesia.4Worked hereFriedrich Wilhelm von RedenThe Prussian mining chief who put the first steam engine into Silesian lead mining.3

Mines

Same kind of depositPicher (Tri-State district)Lead-zinc in limestone: Silesia's heritage site and Picher, where jobs peaked at 11,187 in 1924.1

Places

Located inTarnowskie Gory Lead-Silver-Zinc MineTarnowskie Gory lead-silver-zinc mine sits at Tarnowskie Gory Lead-Silver-Zinc Mine.1

Deposit types

An example ofMississippi Valley-type (MVT) lead-zincTarnowskie Gory lead-silver-zinc mine belongs to the mississippi valley-type family of deposits.5

Sources

  1. Wikidata item Q48841031 (Tarnowskie Gory WHS) Wikidata (CC0)
  2. Wikidata item Q329833 (Tarnowskie Gory) Wikidata (CC0)
  3. Reden, Friedrich Wilhelm Graf von Neue Deutsche Biographie / Deutsche Biographie
  4. Giesche, Georg von Neue Deutsche Biographie / Deutsche Biographie
  5. Mineral Deposit Models for Resource Assessment, Chapter A: A Deposit Model for Mississippi Valley-Type Lead-Zinc Ores (SIR 2010-5070-A) US Geological Survey

Pictures on this page: Friedrich Wilhelm von Reden.jpg, not recorded on the file page (Public domain).

From the Prospector Trails mining history dataset: each fact links to the source it was checked against. Figures are as the source gives them, in the money of their day. Not investment advice.

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