FAMOUS GERMAN GOLD MINE.
Reiehenstein, a small German town of 2500 inhabitants near the Silesian-Czech frontier, recently celebrated its 100th birthday. 'Die town’s claim to contemporary fame, lies in its possession of the only gold mine in Germany, where 181 b. of gold per month is produced from a mine which is but 200yds. from the Czech frontier. In the past Reiehenstein gold was famous; many royal rings were made from this precious metal. In the sixteenth century the quantity of gold worked from the Reiehenstein mines was so great that oyer 20,000 ducats could be minted from it. In the seventeenth century the famous Fugger family owned 145 shafts in the town. But although its gold is hardly any more now, Reiehenstein is still rich in arsenic; during the war the town delivered the whole of the arsenic needed by the German army.
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Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 35, 4 November 1933, Page 17
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144FAMOUS GERMAN GOLD MINE. Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 35, 4 November 1933, Page 17
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