SAG/SDAG Wismut was a uranium mining company in East Germany during the time of the Cold War. It produced a total of 230,400 tonnes of uranium between 1947 and 1990 and made East Germany the fourth la
Head office of Wismut GmbH in Chemnitz-Siegmar
Shaft 371 in Hartenstein (Ore Mountains), former main shaft on the Niederschlema-Alberoda deposit
Uranium ore (pitchblende in dolomite) from the vein-type deposit Niederschlema-Alberoda
Roter Kamm fault in Bad Schlema: The hematite-quartz mineralised fault is the geological boundary between the Schneeberg and Schlema-Alberoda deposits.
The Ore Mountains lie along the Czech–German border, separating the historical regions of Bohemia in the Czech Republic and Saxony in Germany. The highest peaks are the Klínovec in the Czech Republic
Wismut (company)
…restoration and environmental cleanup of the former mining and milling areas. The head office of SDAG Wismut / Wismut GmbH is in Chemnitz-Siegmar. The Ore Mountains (German: Erzgebirge; Czech: Krušné hory) in southern East Germany at the border with the Czech Republic are closely connected to the history of uranium…
View from Mückentürmchen in the Eastern Ore Mountains to the west. Left: the escarpment descending to the Eger Graben; right: the gentle northern dip slope.
The Ore Mountains and adjacent regions
View of Breitenbrunn in the Ore Mountains, from Joachimsthaler Strasse