List of mining areas in Germany
In Germany , the term mining district primarily refers to regions in which lignite , hard coal , potash salt and metals are or have been mined.
Coal fields
- Aachener Revier (North Rhine-Westphalia, Belgium)
- Döhlener mining area (Freital, Saxony)
- Ibbenbürener hard coal district (NRW)
- Lugau-Oelsnitzer coal field (Saxony)
- Rhenish-Westphalian Coal District (North Rhine-Westphalia )
- Saarrevier (Saarland, France)
- Zwickau coal field (Saxony)
Brown coal fields
- Brunswick-Helmstedt Brown Coal District (Lower Saxony)
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Lusatian lignite mining area
- Lower Lusatian lignite district (Brandenburg, Saxony)
- Upper Lusatian mining district (Saxony, Poland)
- Central German lignite area (Saxony-Anhalt, Saxony, Thuringia)
- Upper Palatinate Lignite District (Bavaria)
- Rhenish lignite district (NRW)
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North Hessian lignite district (Hesse)
- Borken brown coal district (Hesse)
Ore mining
There is currently no ore mining in Germany. Only by the Barbara ore mining in Porta Westfalica ores are mined, but not the smelting , but the generation of broken minerals serve
- Aachen Revier (NRW)
- Arnsberg ore district (NRW)
- Bavarian Forest (Bavaria)
- Bensberg ore district (North Rhine-Westphalia / Bergisches Land)
- Diezer Bergrevier (RP)
- Eifel
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Ore Mountains (Saxony)
- Altenberger Zinnrevier
- Annaberg mining district
- Freiberg mountain area
- Marienberg district
- Schlemaer Revier
- Schneeberger Revier
- Harz (Saxony-Anhalt, Lower Saxony)
- Hattingen (North Rhine-Westphalia)
- Oberhausen (North Rhine-Westphalia)
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Lahn-Dill area (Hesse)
- Bergrevier Diez (Hessen / RP (Westerwald) / Taunus)
- Dillenburg mountain area (Hessen / RP (Westerwald))
- Bergrevier Weilburg (Hesse)
- Wetzlar mountain area (Hesse)
- Mansfeld Revier (Saxony-Anhalt)
- Peine-Salzgitter area
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Sauerland (NRW / RP)
- Arnsberg mountain area (North Rhine-Westphalia)
- Brilon mountain area (North Rhine-Westphalia)
- Bergrevier Olpe (North Rhine-Westphalia)
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Siegerland ore district (NRW / RP)
- Burbach mountain area (North Rhine-Westphalia)
- Bergrevier Hamm an der Sieg (RP)
- Bergrevier Daaden-Kirchen (RP)
- Mountain area Müsen (North Rhine-Westphalia)
- Bergrevier Siegen I (North Rhine-Westphalia)
- Bergrevier Siegen II (North Rhine-Westphalia)
- Thuringian Forest (Thuringia)
- Will (NRW)
- Witten (North Rhine-Westphalia)
Salt mining
- Werra potash district (along the Werra river in Thuringia, Hesse)
- Salzgitter (Lower Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt)
- Wendland (Lower Saxony)
