Locality
14°22´53" east longitude, 51°34´22" north latitiude   [ map ]

Name
Spremberg, Spremberg drilling, Niederlausitz, Brandenburg, Germany, Europa

Historical relevance of location
This region is important for open pit mining of Tertiary brown coal. However the drilling from which the sample stems was cored for copper exploration. But, there was no copper exploitation - \"only\" salt.

Classification of the earth

Structure	halite
Colour	white-grey
Age	Permian, Zechstein

Donor

Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources,
 Office Berlin,
 Germany