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Historic Fuchsbau Quarry

Historic Fuchsbau Quarry

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Historic Fuchsbau Quarry

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Naturpark Fichtelgebirge

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Location: Upper Franconia, Bavaria, Germany

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Andrea und Huskys 🐺

May 3, 2024

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Here you can discover all sorts of things and see how people worked in a quarry. An educational trail provides information about this.

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Andrea und Huskys 🐺

July 1, 2022

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Here you can discover all sorts of things and see how work was done in a quarry.

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September 4, 2022

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To the west of the village of Leupoldsdorf, several quarries were in operation until the late 1960s. The so-called tin granite was mined here, a very pure orthoclase granite with a lot of muscovite and little biotite.

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Elevation 690 m

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Wednesday 13 May

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