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60000 Project partners: 60000 56 56 Geochemical Atlas – Erzgebirge and Vogtland

Silver in stream sediments

Silver (Ag) in stream sediments shows a slightly district and . The latter, a zone extending right skewed log distribution, with a maximum of 6 km NNE-SSW, coincides with slightly Sn- bearing Hainichen 55 mg/kg and a minimum below the detection limit Cambro-Ordovician metapelites that crop out with of 0.005 mg/kg. The arithmetic average is NW dip along flat ridges in the strike of the anoma ly . 0.35 mg/kg versus a median of 0.10 mg/kg. The These crests include areas with several collapsed Project supported by: area of highest contents (Ag > 2.5 mg/kg) coincides shafts and other remnants of historical mining with the central Freiberg mining district. The activity. To the SW, the Sn and W districts of Laut er- Ag > 1 mg/kg zone surrounds the district following Elterlein, Aue-Bärengrund and the BiCoNi deposits Freiberg the extension of hydrothermal veins historically of Schneeberg show elevated Ag, as well as some mined for Ag. Similar concentrations occur in the spots along the Gera-Jachymov fault zone. In Dippoldiswalde districts of Annaberg-Buchholz and Marienberg- contrast, the westernmost Erzgebirge and the of the central Erzgebirge. Lower Vogtland region are dominated by lower Ag concentrations of Ag > 0.4 mg/kg cover a large concentrations, visible in the gr anites of , WNW-ESE elongated area crossing the Freiberg Kirchberg, Bergen and most of the surrounding mining district and extending eastward up to the Sn lower Phanerozoic metasediments. T he only occurrence of Sadisdorf. Similar concentrations important area with Ag > 0.4 mg/kg in this part is the mark the northwestern Tharandt Volcanic Complex Gottesberg Sn-greisen deposit. and an area between the mining

Altenberg Zschopau

Stollberg Sayda 20000 20000 Scale: 1 : 400,000 Localities 56 56 Kilometres River 05 10 20 Analysed fraction: < 0.18 mm Major fault Analysed by: ALS Minerals Marienberg Analytical method: ME-MS41 Border D / CZ Kirchberg (Ultra Trace Aqua Regia ICP-MS) Silver Schneeberg [mg / kg]

Annaberg-Buchholz < 0.040 ¯ 0.040 - 0.063 Schwarzenberg 0.063 - 0.10 0.10 - 0.16 Auerbach 0.16 - 0.25

Bergen 0.25 - 0.40 0.40 - 0.63 0.63 - 1,0 Number of samples: 4732 Oelsnitz Min: < 0.005 mg/kg 1,0 - 1.6 Max: 55.4 mg/kg Important Mineral Occurrences Arithmetic Mean: 0.3 mg/kg 1.6 - 2.5 W, ± Mo Geometric Mean: 0.1 mg/kg a1 Median: 0.1 mg/kg > 2.5 7 Sn, ± W, ± Cu, ± F, ± Li, ± Rb, ± Bi Sn, ± Zn, ± W, ± F, ± Cu, ± In, ± Au a2 a7 b 12 c Ag, Pb, Zn, ± Cu, ± Sn, ± In a3 a6 11 a4 d Sb, Ag, ± Au, ± Pb, ± Zn, ± Mo e a5 g f 80000 80000 8 Bi, Co, Ni, U, ± Ag j2 j1 55 55 Adorf 1 h i1 1a Cu, ± Co, ± Au, ± Sb j3 k1 i4 m3 Barite, Fluorite m2 m4 Project: Prediction of Strategic High Technology k2 i3 i2 6 p l1 Metals in the Erzgebirge (WISTAMERZ) 13 o2 m1 o1 k3 10 q - Silver in stream sediments - o3 m5 l2 v1 n1 v2 r1 n2 9 s 2 n3 3 Main Geological Units w r2 x t Cretaceous and Tertiary rocks z y u Permo-Carboniferous sediments a1 - Freiberg north district, a2 - Felsite zone, a3 - Langenstriegis, Upper Carboniferous igneous rocks FKZ: 033R133A Date: May 2019 4 a4 - Oberschöna, a5 - Freiberg central district & Brand-E., a6 - Mulden- Devonian sediments and volcanics hütten, a7 - Halsbrücke, b - Mohorn, c - Edle Krone - Klingenberg, 5 Ordovician metapelites, metacarbonates and gneisses d - Dippoldiswalde, e - Schlottwitz, f - Berggießhübel, g - Sadisdorf, Map compilation A. Barth, St. Schaefer, E. Kallmeier, h - Frauenstein, i1 - Altenberg, i2 - Zinnwald-Cinovec, i3 - Moldava, Ordovician to Silurian pelites and psammites P. Bock, C. Legler i4 - Rehefeld, j1 - Grünberg, j2 - Augustusburg, j3 - Zschopau Cambrian to Ordovician metasediments k1 - Lengefeld, k2 - Marienberg - Wolkenstein, k3 - Pobershau, l1 - , l2 - St. Katharinaberg, Cartography & Layout St. Schaefer, C. Repper Neoproterozoic and Lower Paleozoic gneisses m1 - , m2 - Hormersdorf, m3 - , m4 - Ehrenfriedersdorf, m5 - Annaberg-B., n1 - Lauter- Elterlein, n2 - Westerzgebirge complex deposit, n3 - Niederschlag-Bärenstein, o1 - Aue-Bärengrund, Map projection Transverse mercator (UTM Zone 33N) 1 – Altenberg-Teplice-Caldera (incl. 1a - Schellerhau granite), 2 – Bergen Pluton 3 – Eibenstock Pluton, o2 - Bad Schlema-Alberoda, o3 - Schneeberg, p - Neumark (U), q - Pechtelsgrün, r1 - Sn Deposits of Reference system 4 – Eichigt Pluton (concealed), 5 – Fichtelgebirge Pluton, 6 – Flöha Fault Zone, 7 – Frankenberg Crystalline the Eibenstock Granite, r2 - Gottesberg-Mühlleiten, s - , t - Brunndöbra & Spheroid: GRS 1989 Complex, 8 – Markersbach Pluton, 9 – Gera-Jachymov Fault Zone, 10 – Kirchberg Pluton, 11 – Niederbobritzsch Schneckenstein, u - Klingenthal-Kraslice, v1 - Zobes, v2 - Bergen, w - Tirpersdorf, x - Oelsnitz, Datum: D_ETRS_1989 Pluton, 12 – Tharandt Volcanic Complex, 13 – Lößnitz-Zwönitz Syncline y - Schönbrunn, z - Wiedersberg ISBN 978-3-948423-01-8

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