An iron, baryte and lead-zinc mine, working sulphidic orebodies deposited at the boundary between mid-Devonian and upper Devonian limestones, and covered by a layer of dark baryte.

The Meggen Zinc Mine is located in the region of Nordrhein-Westfalen in Germany. It was known for its large-scale production output. The mine primarily extracted a mixture of galena, pyrite, and sphalerite, with calcite and quartz forming the majority of the waste material.

Mining in Meggen was carried out continuously from 1853 to 1992. Sulphur pyrite, lead, zinc and barite were mined. In 140 years of mining history, Meggen mining was one of the most important mines in the world. History. In the 18th and 19th centuries, …

The Meggen mine operated continuously from 1853 to 1992, and produced a total of 56 million metric tons of crude sulfide and 10 million tons of crude barite ore.

This slide presentation of the classic Meggen Sedex deposit is accompanied by explanatory notes, both available free of charge as Adobe pdf-files from the SGA web page, Mineral deposit archives. They are designed as teaching tools for digital projection and for the study on-screen, the printed text explaining each slide.

Mitte des 19.Jh.s gab es in der Region mehrere Schurfstellen auf Brauneisen- und Barytvorkommen, u.a. Halberbracht, Meggen (Baryt, Brauneisen) und Burbecke (Baryt). Auf …

The Meggen mine and the concentrator plant of the Sachtleben Bergbau GmbH are located in the southern part of the Ruhr district of the Federal Republic of Germany. The mine has been in operation for more than 100 years, but the concentrator described …

The Meggen stratabound, sediment hosted zinc-lead deposit is located in the Sauerland region of North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany, around 100 km east of Köln and 60 km WSW of Korbach. The deposit was exploited from 1852 until 1985 when …

Source volume: 51, issue: 2, PDF page: 107. Label: Figure 24. Galena, 8.5 cm, from the Meggen mine near Lennestadt, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Sauerland, Germany. Wendel Minerals specimen; Christi Cramer photo. Origin: Meggen mine near Lennestadt, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Sauerland, Germany

Location The Meggen Mine and the concentrator plant of the "Sachtleben Bergbau G.m.b.H." are located in the southern part of the Ruhr-district of the Federal Republic of Germany. The mine has been in operation for more than 100 years, but the concentrator described in this paper was built in 1962 and started up in January 1963.