From the Winterberg quarry comes an extraordinary calcite stalagtite. This specimen looks like coming from the mouth of a sabertooth tiger.
Ex Gerd Seggelke Collection, the quarry foreman over decades.
Size: 7.5 x 1.7 x 1.7 cm
Locality: Winterberg Quarry, Iberg, Bad Grund, Lower Saxony, Germany
The Winterberg quarry in Iberg, Harz Mts is famous for calcite. The quarry lies on the Winterberg Mt, which is home for one of the largest cave systems in Germany, the Iberg dripstone cave. Miners of the quarry, which is active since 600 B.C., found the cave in the 16th century. To this day new smaller and larger vugs with calcite and caves are continously discovered.
