Lengenbach quarry, Binntal, Wallis, Switzerland.

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Lengenbach between 1986-2001:



Lengenbach in august 2004:

(text and pictures by Frank de Wit)

Pfff, what's to tell about the Lengenbach-deposit cq quarry...

euhhh, very much, too much for this site.
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We wrote an article on Lengenbach in 1994. You can download it: here (3.601 Kb)...

Pdf-ed articles on Lengenbach:
Well, there are a lot of articles on this locality... Lucky for you, we tried to collect them all :-)
At the moment we have about 700 articles, not all scanned yet...

A complete list of Binntal and Lengenbach related articles can be downloaded here...
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A few very interesting articles for reference reading are below:
the first article I have on Lengenbach:
- 'Realgar aus dem Binnenthal' - Hessenberg, 1856 (554 Kb)

And on the Binntal:
- 'Adular-Vierling aus dem Binnenthal' - Hessenberg, 1856 (227 Kb)

and some other nice (!) publications:
- 'Sulpharsenites of Lead from the Binnenthal-I' - Solly, 1900 (2.880 Kb)
- 'Sulpharsenites of Lead from the Binnenthal-II' - Solly, 1901 (1.450 Kb)
- 'Sulpharsenites of Lead from the Binnenthal-III' - Solly, 1902 (3.526 Kb)
- 'Sulpharsenites of Lead from the Binnenthal-IV' - Solly, 1903 (896 Kb)
- 'Bleisulfarsenite aus dem Binnenthal-I/II - Solly, 1902 (4.385 Kb)
- 'Bleisulfarsenite aus dem Binnenthal-III - Solly, 1903 (3.659 Kb)

(pictures & specimen by Frank de Wit, Ate van der Burgt & Paul Bongaerts)

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