Best Hope Gear
The Beste-Hope-Gang is a geological fault with a very short, trending extension near Wolfshagen in the Harz Mountains . It systematically belongs to the Upper Harz veins . On the best hope corridor, rather unsuccessful small-scale mining attempts were carried out.
Course (projected onto the surface of the day)
The course west of the former Sülteberg quarry is unknown. Sülteberg quarry - Alexanderplatz - Westerberg - Dittmarsberg - Granetalsperre - encroachment on the Todberger Gangzug on the Lost Mountain .
Paragenesis, peculiarities
The best hope corridor has some chalcopyrite , pyrite and goethite . The gaits are made of quartz and calcite .
Outcrops
There are no clear indications of the existence of a passage.
Overview of mining history
Around 1865 a trial mining took place on the summit of the Westerberg.
literature
- Torsten Schröpfer: Treasure trove: Interesting facts about the West Harz mining and metallurgy . 1st edition. Pieper, Clausthal-Zellerfeld 2000, ISBN 3-923605-08-0 .
- Dieter Stoppel: Course map of the Upper Harz . Federal Institute for Geosciences and Raw Materials, 1981, ISSN 0540-679X .