Seifner
A seifner is a miner who mines deposits of soap . Its main gezähe is the vielzinkige soap fork , a kind of rake. The activity is referred to as soaping , and a mine operated in this way is known as a soap factory . Tin and gold soaps are mainly soap made. While tin soaps are largely exploited worldwide today, gold soaping is still common. Colloquially it is referred to as panning for gold .
When soaping pewter, the soap fork made it possible to separate the ore barley from dead rock and earth. This often happened in the form that the Zinnseifner built a clarification basin ("Läuterhobel") in a steep stream or artificially created water ditch, into which the tin-containing material was thrown. The mud dissolved in the water, while the heavy rock remained at the bottom of the basin. After draining the water, this was recovered and sieved. The tin ore ("soap tin" or "tin barley") could then be brought into the tin melt. The sifting resulted in heaps, called "Raithalden".
literature
- Heinrich Veith: German mountain dictionary with evidence . Wilhelm Gottlieb Korn, Breslau 1871, p. 441 ( digitized version ).
- Heinrich Schurtz : The soap mining in the Ore Mountains and the whale legends . Engelhorn, Stuttgart 1890 ( digitized version ).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Moritz Ferdinand Gätzschmann: Collection of mining expressions . Craz & Gerlach (R. Münnich), Freiberg 1859, p. 69 ( digitized version ).
- ↑ a b The mining landscape of Schneeberg and Eibenstock (= values of the German homeland . Volume 11). 1st edition. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1967, p. 169.
- ^ Moritz Ferdinand Gätzschmann: Collection of mining expressions . Craz & Gerlach (R. Münnich), Freiberg 1859, p. 59 ( digitized version ).