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 ©2010
Minerals of
the lead and zinc ore deposit Mežica
The book is printed in
Slovene, English and German!
112 pages · book size 17 x 22 cm
240 photos and 30 drawings
price: 19.50 EUR
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e-mail: aleksander.recnik@ijs.si
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The
book 'Minerals of the lead and zinc ore deposit Mežica' is a first
comprehensive overview of mining history, geology and mineralogy of the Mežica
mine (Carinthia, Slovenia), where during 350 years of mining, over 1000 km
of tunnels, used for ore tracking and transportation, were excavated
together with several hundred kilometers of stopes and mine workings on the
existing ore bodies. Nowadays, a large number of surface pits and over 300
mine adits are still visible in the upper sections of the Meža-valley ore deposit. The most abundant
mineral of more than 2000 m deep oxidation zone is wulfenite, which has been
mined as a molybdenum ore. According to the available data over 80.000 tons
of wulfenite in form of well crystallized specimens were
smelted! The Mežica mine became famous for the unusual pyramidal and bipyramidal
wulfenite crystals. On this material two types of
wulfenite twins were identified and named after their localities as the Igrčevo- and
the Doroteja-Law
of twinning. Today, Mežica is known as one of the world's richest wulfenite
deposits and one can barely find a major mineralogical collections or museums that does not have at least one specimen from this
classic Slovenian locality. This richly illustrated monograph has over 240
high-quality photographs of superb older and also new specimens collected
during 2005-2010 in the frame of a research project guided by the author.
Dr. Aleksander
Rečnik, the author
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