Juliane Sophia Pit
| Juliane Sophia | |||
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| Mining technology | Civil engineering | ||
| Rare minerals | Galena | ||
| Information about the mining company | |||
| Employees | 47 (1841) | ||
| Start of operation | 1776 | ||
| End of operation | 1904 | ||
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| Degradation of | Silver ore | ||
| Greatest depth | 400 m | ||
| Geographical location | |||
| Coordinates | 51 ° 49 '39.7 " N , 10 ° 25' 28.5" E | ||
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| local community | Clausthal-Zellerfeld | ||
| District ( NUTS3 ) | Goslar | ||
| country | State of Lower Saxony | ||
| Country | Germany | ||
| District | Upper Harz | ||
The Juliane Sophia mine was a silver mine near Schulenberg in the Upper Harz (mountain and university town of Clausthal-Zellerfeld ). It is located directly on the L517 road at the Oker reservoir. Silver-bearing galena , mineralogically called galena , was extracted from the pit . The pit was the most productive of the Schulenberg pits.
history
The mine started operations in 1776. From the beginning a water lifting machine was used for drainage. In the first two years, 60 tons of ore were mined. Two years later (1780) it was already 230 tons. Between 1796 and 1809, 700 to 1400 tons per year were mined. In 1841 a total of 47 miners were employed in the mine. After the discovery of new deposits, the pit was expanded to a maximum depth of 400 meters. After these deposits were mined, the mine was closed in 1904 and mining in the Schulenberg Revier ended.
Today some closed tunnel mouth holes are still visible. The heaps of the Schulenberg pits can still be seen from the road.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Mineralienatlas - Juliane Sophia mine
- ↑ Christoph Bartels: From the early modern mining industry to the mining industry . Ore mining in the Upper Harz 1635-1866. Publication No. 54. German Mining Museum, Bochum 1992, ISBN 3-921533-53-8 .