In 2018, the Geosciences Collections received a collection of more than 400 pieces from the Mansfeld-Sangerhausen mining district from the honorary citizen of the TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Mr Siegfried Flach from Damme. In addition to a large number of copper slate samples with ore rulers made of bornite, chalcopyrite or chalcocite from various shafts and often with exact location details, there are also some rare pieces in the collection.

On the occasion of the opening of the special exhibition "Treasures of Mansfeld Mining", a colloquium was held on 10 April at 17:00 in the large lecture hall of the A. G. Werner Building.Werner Building

Welcome address
Prof. Dr Klaus-Dieter Barbknecht, Rector of the TU Bergakademie Freiberg

News
Dipl.-Min. Andreas Massanek, Geosciences Collections

Short outline of the history of Mansfeld copper slate mining
Dipl.Geol. Sven Bauer, Geoconsult Deutschland GmbH, Berlin

A question of time - the metallogenesis of European copper slate
Prof. Dr Gregor Borg, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg

Copper slate in the Mansfeld and Sangerhausen mining districts - structural change and new impulses for raw materials research
M.Sc. Nico Kropp, M.Sc. Christian Lohmann, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg

After the presentations, Dr Christin Kehrer and Dr Birgit Gaitzsch gave a guided tour of the special exhibition.