Counter center

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In geology, a counter-center is understood to be the continuation of a corridor on the opposite side of a cut river valley .

If an ore turned out to be worth mining, this was also to be expected in the mountains on the other side of the valley. For this reason, the location of the opposing center was digged if this was not yet known. Deposits intersected by a main or heritage valley were considered to be two different in the sense of mining law; thus separate assumptions for the line and counter-center became necessary.

Examples of opposites are the Lorenz Gegentrum in Halsbrücke as a continuation of the Halsbrücker Spat on the opposite bank of the Freiberg Mulde . The Andreas-Gegentrum near Steinbach not far from Jöhstadt is also a well-known Gegentrum.

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