Victoria Pit

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Victoria
General information about the mine
Rare minerals Anglesite , pyrargyrite , linneite , cobaltite , morenosite , tetrahedrite
Information about the mining company
Employees 200
Start of operation 1663
End of operation 1931
Funded raw materials
Degradation of Lead, copper and pale ores / lead ores, spatula and brown iron stone, copper pebbles / galena
Degradation of Lead ores, spatula and brown iron stones, copper pebbles
Degradation of Galena
Greatest depth 720 m
Geographical location
Coordinates 51 ° 0 ′ 41 ″  N , 8 ° 1 ′ 22 ″  E Coordinates: 51 ° 0 ′ 41 ″  N , 8 ° 1 ′ 22 ″  E
Victoria (North Rhine-Westphalia)
Victoria
Location Victoria
Location Burgholdinghausen
local community Kreuztal
District ( NUTS3 ) Siegen-Wittgenstein
country State of North Rhine-Westphalia
Country Germany
District Mountain area Müsen

Victoria was a mine in the Siegerland ore district , in Kreuztal - Burgholdinghausen . Mainly lead and zinc ores were mined in it, but also iron ore and copper pyrites , less often pyrites and mercury . It was one of the highest located mines in the Siegerland .

Aisle means

The main corridor was 430 m long and up to 2 m thick. It contained lead, copper and pale ores. The upper level of the lying corridor was up to 4 m thick and contained lead ore, spar and brown iron stone, as well as white lead and rarely also vitriol lead. The third gear was the diagonal gear . It was 2–4 m thick and contained 1–3 m thick lead galena, the rest consisted of greywacke and slate.

history

You can see ancient pinging trains in the landscape near the former mine site, an ore deposit was first mentioned in writing here in 1663. In 1742 the Upper Victoria Gallery was excavated . This was 125 m long and reached the vein in 1750. The mining operations were interrupted until 1804. Around 1850, the 450 m long Victoria adit in the Old Great Victoria reached the ore 53 m below the upper adit. The mined ores were transported to processing and the smelters by carts. The pit was still quite insignificant for the region. Between 1857 and 59, 103 tons of copper ore were mined. From 1870, lead ore production , which was low in the 1960s, rose from 201 t in 1867 to 937 t in 1885. At the same time, however, the production of fahler ore fell by half to 31 t.

On June 5, 1873, 22 mine fields consolidated to form the Victoria mine , where lead ore, copper ore , zinc ore and iron ore were mined, the latter being reluctant to mine , as iron stone was only found in small quantities. In some cases, pebbles and mercury were also extracted. When the ore deposits in the Tiefen Victoria adit were running out, a Rhenish-Westphalian capital group bought the mine. Rich ore deposits were soon discovered in the area. In 1886 a new, modern processing plant was built 600 m down the valley from the mine. In 1890 a machine shaft was sunk and a two-track towing track was built between the shaft and the processing facility. The embankment on which the train drove can still be seen prominently in the landscape. The double shaft had a depth of 580 m and was 3 × 4 m in size. In addition, there were two remote blind shafts that have a total depth of 720 m. Funding was provided with a steam hoisting machine and a conveyor device from Vetter in Eiserfeld. The steam engine had speeds of

  • 1200 m / min for ore extraction and
  • 300 m / min for passenger travel.

In 1900 a narrow-gauge railway was built from the processing department to the Littfeld train station , which transported the processed ores. In 1909 the Märkisch-Westphalian Mining Association bought the mine for 2.7 million marks. In 1900 Victoria had 201 employees. It had its heyday with more than 500 t of mining per month, the highest levels were in zinc mining in 1911 and in lead mining in 1913. With increasing depth , the iron ore deposits increased, so that this was also mined. In 1909 the mine consolidated with Heinrichssegen about 300 m north.

In 1923 Bergbau-Aktiengesellschaft Lothringen bought the Victoria- Altenberg mine , and in the mid-1920s the mine ran into economic problems. On December 31, 1927, it was shut down, at the end with 179 employees. After the shutdown, all buildings except the office were demolished, and a flotation plant was built in the processing area . Until the mid-1960s it was used to extract ore particles from the sediment of the sludge ponds in the surrounding mines, and from 1954 to process all copper ores in the Siegerland ore district . The following were processed there:

  • 90,340 t of copper ore
  • 7,722 t of copper ore concentrate
  • 1,519 t copper (extracted)

In 1964 the old office building was demolished.

100 kg of lead ore contained 43 g of silver and up to 80% lead. 100 kg of Fahlerz contained approx. 660 g of silver.

Minerals

Millerite from the Victoria Pit

The mine became world-famous for its variety and quality of minerals . Various minerals were found in the mine:

In 1909, Millerite as thick as a fist was found in the corridors of the Victoria Pit , which is very unusual for this mineral.

Consolidations

  • Heinrichssegen : Closed on December 31, 1927 with 40 staff members. Heinrichssegen was first awarded in1737, and again on October 29, 1834. In 1845 an inheritance tunnel was laid out, civil engineering began in 1852, the shaft was built in 1879 and had a depth of 247 m. It was first shut down in April 1918 and moved to Victoria from 1919.
  • Regulus in Müsen ( Hilchenbach ), first awarded on September 1, 1856, belonged to Wilder Mann and Victoria

See also

Web links

Commons : Grube Victoria  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files