Qualla: Rammelsberg https://qualla.com/rammelsberg en-us © 2026 Bendyline Tue, 11 Aug 2026 13:49:15 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/u/1/p/r/rammelsberg-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Rammelsberg https://qualla.com/rammelsberg Rammelsberg: Introduction https://qualla.com/rammelsberg/ Photo credit Hannes Grobe/AWI, CC BY-SA 4.0. The last ore came out of the Rammelsberg on 30 June 1988. Miners had been cutting into this hillside above Goslar since the late seventh century — the proof is unsmelted ore and slag excavated at Düna in the South Harz, and Anglo-Saxon grave goods in England made from Harz metal. When it stopped, it had been the only mine still working continuously after more than a thousand years, and some thirty million tonnes of ore had come out of the mountain. That metal paid for most of the history of this corner of Germany.

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]]> Mon, 03 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/1/p/r/rammelsberg-wp/u1pr-rammelsberg-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Rammelsberg: Ore from a Devonian Seabed https://qualla.com/rammelsberg/ Photo credit Kassandro, CC BY-SA 3.0. The Rammelsberg is a 635-metre hill on the northern rim of the Harz, and its wealth was laid down on a seabed. In the Devonian, hot metal-bearing water vented from springs on the seabed and precipitated two enormous lenses of massive sulphide — a sedimentary exhalative deposit, q...

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]]> Mon, 03 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/1/p/r/rammelsberg-wp/u1pr-rammelsberg-ore-from-a-devonian-seabed.mp3 0:06 2 full Rammelsberg: The Mountain That Made an Emperor's Town https://qualla.com/rammelsberg/ Photo credit Tobias Helfrich (Dionysos), CC BY-SA 3.0. The Saxon chronicler Widukind of Corvey put the mine in writing around 968, recording that Emperor Otto the Great had the silver deposits opened. Goslar itself does not appear until 979: the mine came first, and the town grew because of it. Silver of that quality made the place ...

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]]> Mon, 03 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/1/p/r/rammelsberg-wp/u1pr-rammelsberg-the-mountain-that-made-an-emperors-town.mp3 0:06 3 full Rammelsberg: Water, Wood and the Master Malter https://qualla.com/rammelsberg/ Photo credit Rabanus Flavus, CC0. A medieval mine is a water problem. Drainage, hoisting and ore dressing all depended on getting water onto wheels and keeping it there, which is why the Herzberg Pond was dug in 1561 as a reserve against drought. The Roeder Gallery still carries its wheels and the flatrod linkage...

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]]> Mon, 03 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/1/p/r/rammelsberg-wp/u1pr-rammelsberg-water-wood-and-the-master-malter.mp3 0:06 4 full Rammelsberg: 1936, and Who Dug It https://qualla.com/rammelsberg/ Photo credit Andreas Caputo (Goseteufel), CC BY-SA 3.0. The Nazi state wanted the Rammelsberg's non-ferrous metals for rearmament, and froth flotation had just made it possible to process ore earlier generations would have discarded. The Rammelsbergprojekt of 1936 and 1937 rebuilt the whole surface plant. Fritz Schupp and Martin Kremm...

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]]> Mon, 03 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/1/p/r/rammelsberg-wp/u1pr-rammelsberg-1936-and-who-dug-it.mp3 0:06 5 full Rammelsberg: The Last Shift https://qualla.com/rammelsberg/ Photo credit User Andreas Caputo on de.wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0. After the war the mine found one more life. Lead and zinc prices climbed in 1950, and low-grade banding ore left in the ground suddenly repaid processing, at around 25 percent recoverable metal. A new dressing plant went up on the Bollrich above Oker in 1953, Schupp planning it o...

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