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Sophie von Fromm (left) and Caroline Schröder (right) determine soil respiration in a Amazonas forest

in Brazil using the dynamic closed chamber system SEMACH-FG, EcoRespira-Amazon project

Annual Report 2016 (the 10th for the 100th)

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Things to discover in our 10th Report:

Institute, University and City .......................................................................................... 3 100 years Werner-Bau ........................................................................................................... 3 Ottmar Edenhofer and the 20th Krüger Colloquium ................................................................ 4 It’s the Twenty that counts ..................................................................................................... 5 Freiberg receives Chile-House: Founder Dr. Erika Krüger‘s engagement ... ......................... 6 Looking back in history .......................................................................................................... 7

Institute, Working groups and Laboratories .............................................................. 8 New Brains ............................................................................................................................. 8 Progress in BMHZ Krüger-Kolleg ........................................................................................... 9 The little deluge .................................................................................................................... 13 Master Geoscience study plan revised; Double degree agreement signed with St. Petersburg partner university ........................... 13 WG General and Applied Mineralogy .................................................................................. 14 WG Geochemistry and Geoecology .................................................................................... 16 WG Economic Geology and Petrology ................................................................................ 19 News from our Labs ............................................................................................................. 22 WG Geoscientific Collections ............................................................................................... 24 Our team (permanent staff and the reinforcements) ............................................................ 31 Post festum 2016 and Outlook towards 2017 ...................................................................... 32

Annex ................................................................................................................................. 32 Publications in refereed journals and book contributions 2016 ............................................ 32 Other publications 2016 ....................................................................................................... 35 Exhibits of our collections .................................................................................................... 39 Research projects and contracts 2016 ................................................................................ 40 Qualification works 2016 (PhD, M.Sc., B.Sc., Trainees) ....................................................... 41 Event organisation 2016 ...................................................................................................... 44 Public talks 2016 .................................................................................................................. 45 Miscellaneous 2016 (Excursions, guest scientists, Our additions, etc.) .............................. 46

Jointly with heartfelt greetings “Glückauf!”, this annual report is, as always, a big Thankyou to all friends of our institute and for those who accompany and support it.

Impressum. The working groups of our institute are solely responsible for the content. Contact: Director of the Institute of Mineralogy, Prof. Dr. Gerhard Heide. Brennhausgasse 14, D-09599 Freiberg; Tel: 03731 – 39 2628, Fax: 03731 – 39 3129; E-Mail: [email protected]; http://tu-freiberg.de/fakultaet3/mineralogie

Sources: Diverse press releases of the press department of TU Bergakademie Freiberg (Thanks!) and for the historical dates: Wagenbreth O, Pohl N, Kaden H, Volkmer R (2008) Die Technische Uni-versität Bergakademie Freiberg und ihre Geschichte. 2nd ed. 345 p.

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Institute of Mineralogy 2016 Institute, University and City “Freiberg becomes more and more beautiful with every visit” is voiced by many of our guests. And it is true – at least optically. In Germany and Europa the year 2016 has been partly ill fated. While Freiberg is not left untouched, it is very comforting to hear the joint and outspoken position of City Hall and University Rectorate supports an open-minded city. To-gether with many engaged and no less open-minded Freiberg citizens, they could success-fully contribute to a fine quality of life for everyone. People from all over the world feel com-fortable here in Freiberg, independent of whether they are citizens, students and academic teachers, guests or even refugees from anywhere.

100 years Werner-Bau. Amidst World War I, the Abraham-Gottlob Werner Building was inaugurated in 1916. Our house with its impressive architecture enticed more than 100 visi-tors on the ‘Day of the Open Door’ (September 11) to visit our building with its famous collec-tion rooms. The steel-concrete construction was built between 1912 and 1916.

Our Werner-Bau shining in new splendour, which is hopefully sustainable.

“Jointly maintain cultural heritage” is the motto of the countrywide ‘Day of the open monument’ that took place for the 24th time. All across Germany, castles and palaces, city halls, technical monuments, historical gardens, museums and many private homes open their doors to the general public. So did our Werner-Bau, celebrating its 100th anniversary this year. Prof. Ger-hard Heide not only explained the background of investing back then into this marvellous building, but the architectural and technical challenges that were faced to meet the modern


demands of the Institute. Guests were interested in the nearly completely fire protection tech-nologies and the presentday usage of our rooms from basement to rooftop. “I was surprised to see that people wished to see lecture halls and seminar rooms. The microscopy training room and the X-ray diffractometry labs were of particular interest for the youngest visitors”, reported Prof. Gerhard Heide.

The Saxon King Friedrich August III visited the Royal Saxon Bergakademie Freiberg on the occasion of its 150th anniversary on July 29, 1916. He inaugurated Abraham Gottlob Werner-Bau the same day. Today, our building again shines in new splendour and is modernized de-spite its timeless beauty. The construction stands for the unity of science and collections that are indispensable for the geosciences. With its architecture and location, Werner-Bau is at an interface between the historical city centre and campus.

Started early in 2014, the so far latest fire protection measures were carried out in the build-ing, together with complete renovations of its façade and the construction of a brand-new and optically attractive elevator with additional access from the back side of the premises. It is finally possible for physically handicapped people to appreciate and enter the building without serious constraints. Less pleasurable was the fact that even in December 2016 not all work was finished and not all work was done to our satisfaction. However, the house appears bright and friendlier again, the corridors are more open and comply with the geometry of the construction.

Modified press release 12.09.2016; see Rosetz & Heide (2016) Acamonta 23: 111–116

Ottmar Edenhofer and the 20th Krüger Colloquium. “After Paris: Challenges for cli-mate politics” was the theme of Edenhofers brilliant presentation that fascinated everyone – and triggered the exciting and inspiring discussion that followed. Prof. Ottmar Edenhofer is Director of the Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change, Berlin, and Deputy Director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Change Research (PIK).

Mineral coal, being almost a taboo topic in Saxony, was the focus of his talk. Edenhofer pre-sented his hypotheses with great clarity and convincing logic. These ran the gamut of issues on German, European to global scales. The diplomatic results of COP 21 are political guard-rails, which will change our world. With these lie significant opportunities that are on par with the risks involved in doing nothing. Amazingly enough, these opportunities in technology de-velopment and economics are cur-rently underexplored. Even Germany and the European Union do not con-structively make use of their potential.

Prof. Ottmar Edenhofer (left) with Prof. Jörg Matschullat (right) © Media centre TU Bergakademie Freiberg

The event became a worthy 20th anniversary of the Krüger-Kolloquium. Founder Dr. Erika Krüger honoured it with her presence and all participants expressed their respect and grati-tude for her initiative, which enriches academic and intellectual life at TU Bergakademie Freiberg together with the various other activities of the Krüger-Foundation.


It’s the Twenty that counts. Now “20 years young” are also the degree program Geoecol-ogy and the Interdisciplinary Environmental Research Centre (IÖZ), the office of which is located in the Mineralogical Institute. The Geoecology program augmented dwindling student numbers at TU Bergakademie Freiberg right after German Reunification in the mid 1990s and still is one of the more sought-after study areas at our university.

Be it local anthropogenic contamination or global change topics, environmental issues de-mand specialists that speak various professional languages and have gained a deep under-standing for related environmental complexity: Geoecologists. The capacity to recognize processes and interactions in and between the atmosphere, hydrosphere, pedosphere, bio-sphere, cryosphere, anthroposphere and lithosphere, and to find feasible solutions, stands in the foreground of education and research activities.

Freiberg educates such specialists since 1996. It is proud of its many successful alumni, who contribute to keeping our country fit for future challenges at high-ranking research institu-tions, universities, state authorities, and in companies both in Germany and abroad.

Freiberg hosted the conference “Geoecology: Dialogue of Research and Practice” from No-vember 18 to 20. The forum offered plenty of ideas with more than 120 participants from across Germany and some European countries, with excellent invited talks and vivid discus-sions. The diversity of geoecologists’ activities was impressive. A substantial and informal alumni meeting and various special excursions rounded off the programme.

Glimpses from the annual conference “Geoecology: Dialogue of Research and Practice”

The Interdisciplinary Environmental Research Centre (IÖZ) was from its start in 1996 the nexus for this course of study. In addition, the Centre combines the environmental expertise from the entire university. At present the following working groups are allocated to the Centre: Biology and Ecology (Prof. Dr. Hermann Heilmeier), Soil protection (Prof. Dr. Jürgen Schmidt), Geochemistry and Geoecology (Prof. Dr. Jörg Matschullat), Hydrogeology (Prof. Dr. Broder Merkel), Environmental History, History of Technologies and Industrial Archaeology (Prof. Dr. Helmuth Albrecht), Environmental and Resource Management (Prof. Dr. Jan Bongaerts and Prof. Dr. Dirk Rübbelke), and Environmental Microbiology (Prof. Dr. Michael Schlömann).

Current projects amongst others: • 2003–2020 World Heritage Project Montanregion Erzgebirge (UNESCO) • 2016–2019 Rohrglanzgras as bioenergy grass – Optimising biomass usage and

bioaccumulation of valuables (PPP) • 2013–2018 Biohydrometallurgical Centre (BHMZ), a Krüger Kolleg • 2015–2017 EcoRespira-Amazon (BMZ)

With various partners, IÖZ regularly organizes conferences, symposia and lecture series: • Annaberg Climate Days (http://tu-freiberg.de/en/ioez/tasks-and-expertise/events/annaberg-climate-days) • BMHZ Colloquia (http://tu-freiberg.de/forschung/bhmz) • IÖZ Forum / Studium Generale (http://tu-freiberg.de/en/ioez/tasks-and-expertise/events/ioez-forum) • Freiberg Innovations Symposia (http://tu-freiberg.de/en/freiberg-innovations).

Publications often emerge as a result of these activities (u p. 6).


Examples of IÖZ book publications

Freiberg receives Chile House: Founder Dr. Erika Krüger engaged in interna-tional student house (from Birgit Seidel-Bachmann, TU Bergakademie Freiberg). Chile is an important partner for TU Bergakademie Freiberg. Contacts to several Chilenean universi-ties were refreshed and partly established over the last years. Various university institutes collaborate with Chilean partners. All six faculties host Chilean Master and PhD students. Internships and study experience in Chile are sought after by Freiberg students. For this rea-son, founder Dr. Erika Krüger decided to support such collaboration through a special project to build a Chile House in Freiberg. Foundations were laid on August 5, 2016.

The Chile House Freiberg is currently under construction in Brennhausgasse street, in im-mediate proximity to Schlossplatz, our institute and the Krüger House. The latter has devel-oped beautifully and again thanks to the engagement of Dr. Erika Krüger. Today it houses the ‘Mineralogical Collection of Germany’. The Chile House will become temporary home to Chilean Master and PhD students, postdocs and guest scientists. In addition to apartments for short- or longer-term stays, there will be a larger room for seminars and exercises as well as events. A small garden is planned for behind the house. Dr. Erika Krüger personally pro-vides more than one million Euro for this effort. The building shall be ready in mid 2017.

In her welcome speech, Erika Krüger described her motivation for buying the old previous building and property in the historical city of Freiberg to develop the Chile House at that fine location. Her contacts with professors Gerhard Heide and Michael Schlömann especially triggered her commitment. The mineralogist and the microbiologist started four years ago the ‘Domeyko-Initiative’ (u our Annual Report 2014). The Chilean partner universities in the Domeyko Network are Universidad de Concepción (UdeC), Universidad Católica del Norte (UCN) in Antofagasta and Universidad de Atacama (UDA) in Copiapó, a mining town with a history similar to Freiberg. Further well-established contacts exist with other Chilean universi-ties, particularly Universidad de Santiago de Chile (USACH).

Greetings by Minister of State Prof. Georg Unland, Rector Prof. Klaus-Dieter Barbknecht and Mayor Sven Krüger as well as a small reception rounded off the symbolic start of the founda-tion — with Chilean Master and PhD students, and other international guests, e.g. from Rus-sia and the USA as witnesses. Copies of the immatriculation document of the first Chilean student in Freiberg, Casimiro Domeyko, copper minerals from our collections and from cur-rent research projects in Chile, modern coins (supplied by Minister Georg Unland) and a special memorial coin with a magazine on the occasion of the 250th anniversary of Bergakademie, copies of the honorary doctorate of Chilean President Michelle Bachelet and Dr. Erika Krüger, a copy of the “Freie Presse” from August 5, the latest Amtsblatt of the City of Freiberg as well as information on city finances and a copy of the construction permit were buried in the foundation.


Festive cornerstone ceremony for the Chile House on August 5, 2016. Left: Founder Dr. Erika Krüger with the capsule, surrounded by Lord Mayor Sven Krüger, the Saxon Finance Minister Prof. Georg Unland, curator Andreas Massanek, Rector Prof. Klaus-Dieter Barbknecht, GRAFA Director Dr. Kristi-na Wopat and Prof. Carsten Drebenstedt. Right: Dr. Erika Krüger and our Rector sink the capsule into the foundations (Photos: Ekhardt Mildner)

Looking back in history (in decadal steps as always). 1156: Regency of Otto the Rich as Margrave of Meissen commences. Settlers cut down the forest on what is now Freiberg in the same year and build the Waldhufendorf Christiansdorf. 1296: War between the German King and the Wettiners also about Freiberg – Stabilization of power for the Wettiners. 1346: Second document of Freiberg Mining Law. 1436: Start of tin mining in Altenberg. The hand-book of montane science ‘De Re Metallica’ by Georgius Agricola is published in 1556 (pic-ture right). 1676: Abraham von Schönberg becomes Chief Mining Officer Freiberg. 1706: The Swedish Army occupies Kurfürstentum Saxony. 1716 sees the foundation of a mining school in Joachimstal, Austria (today Jáchymov, Czech Republic). 1726: The priest, Christian Ehrenfried Seyffert, suggests to the Kurfürst to estab-lish a ‘Schola metallica’ in Bräunsdorf near Freiberg. 1746: Carl Frie-drich Zimmermann publishes a memorandum on the foundation of a Mining Academy (Upper Saxon Berg-Academie). The Seven-Year War starts in 1756 with the economic collapse of Saxony and the final end of the Saxon-Polish Union. First lectures commence in 1766 at our Bergakademie with 19 students in the first year. Mathematics and Ge-ometry (Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Charpentier), Metallurgic Chemistry (Christlieb Ehregott Gellert), Mineralogy (Christian Hieronymus Lom-mer), Practical Underground Surveying (Carl Ernst Richter), Drawing and Sketching (Charpentier), and Chemical Analysis (Johann Andreas Klotzsch) were taught. 1776: American Declaration of Independence. Start of the regular education of “Scheide- and Wäscheknaben“ (Mineral separation and beneficiation boys) in the Freiberg mining district – predecessor of the later Freiberg Mining School, today Tech-nical Gymnasium Julius Weißbach. 1786: First German steam engine, type Watt) in the Prussian city of Hettstedt. 1796: Wilhelm A. Lampadius discovers carbon disulfide (CS2). Napoleon’s troops triumph over Prussia and Saxony at Jena and Auerstedt in 1806; Saxony becomes member of the Rheinbund and turns into a Kingdom; the end of the Holy Empire of German Nation is set. In the same year bituminous coal mining in Freital is nationalized; the

first coking oven commence working in Saxony. 1816: The Mining Academies in Kielce (Poland) and St. Étienne (France) are founded. The first Elbe River steamboat is launched 1836 in Dresden and the first long-distance train connection of Germany is under construction: Leipzig – Dresden. The Mining Academy of Jülich (Liège, Belgium) and the later TH Darmstadt are founded. 1866: Saxony drowns in political irrelevance as a result of the Prussian-Austrian War and the defeat at Königgrätz (today Hradec Králové in Bohemia). 1886: Saxony buys and modernis-es the most important mines in the Freiberg district to safeguard their existence and the related jobs. Clemens A. Winkler (picture left) detects


the element germanium (GE). 1916: Our Abraham-Gottlob Werner Bau, one of the first com-plex reinforced-concrete buildings of Germany, becomes the new home of Freiberg Geosci-ences. 1946: Official re-opening of the Bergakademie and start of uranium production through the German-Soviet Wismut AG. Businesses of war criminals and Nazis are being nationalized. The first state elections do not supply a majority to the Social Unity Party (SED); this result is annulled. 1986: 800-year celebration in Freiberg and rediscovery of the famous Miner’s Parade (pictures below).

Freiberg Miner’s Parade – an impressive spectacle

Institute, Working Groups and Laboratories New brains. The most relevant element in university education and research is the brains. We are happy to see further support and engagement through our additional staff: Dr. Alex-andra Käßner and Dr. Mathias Burisch.

Alexandra (picture right) works as scientific staff member since Sep-tember 1 in the Isotope Lab. She defended her PhD 2014 in the work-ing group of Prof. Lothar Ratschbacher (Institute of Geology, TUBAF) on tectonic development of Tien Shan and the Tajikistan Basin. She applied various dating methods, e.g., fission track, Ar-Ar, U/Th-He und U-Pb-dating in combination with geomorphological and structural-geological methods. High precision U-Pb dating shall be her focus in our Isotope lab.

Mathias' center of scientific gravity lies in the geochemistry of hydrothermal ore deposits, trace elements and halogenes in crustal fluids with fluid inclusion studies, investigations of gangue mineral alteration and rock–fluid, fluid–fluid and fluid–gas-interactions as well as related thermodynamic modelling. Mathias (left, in front of Matterhorn) finished his B.Sc. in 2010 with colleagues Kurt Bucher and Ingrid Stober in Freiburg, working on fluoride prospection in the Swiss Göscheneralp. His M.Sc. thesis with the same supervisors on “Host rock al-teration and fissure mineral formation of Planggenstock Crys-

tal Cave, Uri, CH”, was defended in 2012. From 2013 to 2016 Mathias worked on his PhD dissertation on “Ore-forming processes in hydrothermal gangue deposits in southwestern Germany” under the wings of Gregor Markl and Thomas Wenzel, Tübingen University.

We are happy about the reinforcement and wish for fine collaboration and high impact.


Progress in BHMZ Krüger-Kolleg Excursion to Spain (March 07–11). A springtime excursion to southern Spain allowed 20 BHMZ collaborators to flee dreary March weather in Freiberg. Yet, for 13 BHMZ-doctoral students, an associate PhD student, four PhDs and two professors, this was not to be trans-lated into holidays. The aim of the journey was to explore mining sites at Rio Tinto and the Iberian Pyrite Belt. This region is characterized by particularly rich mineralizations of volcanic origin and centuries of mining tradition. The pictures below show various destinations around Seville.

Highlights of the BHMZ excursion to Spain

Until today, many aboveground and underground mines are active, with a process chain from ore winning and beneficiation to the final raw material product – an ideal study object for the related philosophy of the Biohydrometallurgical Centre (BHMZ). Next to those primary aims, the historical mining and smelting sites, and interesting industries invited our attention. A whiff of the cultural richness could be perceived during an afternoon in Seville and a short visit to the Atlantic. The cold ocean did everything but invite a single PhD student to take a dip. The excursion ended with a barbeque with Spanish students and their supervisor – our guide and local organisor, Prof. Domingo Carvajal – Thank you!

Internal meeting in Holzhau. May 20th offered another opportunity to escape offices, labs and lecture halls in Freiberg. Many of us set off to Holzhau, a small and cosy village on top of the eastern Erzgebirge. There, doctoral students presented the latest developments and insights from the 13 subprojects. Further progress and future plans were vividly discussed jointly with professors, other scientists and the BHMZ Advisory Committee members.


Participants at the internal BHMZ meeting in Holzhau

Subproject 1 (Matthias Bauer, Prof. Thomas Seifert). Drilling activities at the underground in-situ bioleaching test site in Reiche Zeche are largely over. Several drill holes were in-stalled in the same angle as the slope of the ore vein Wilhelm Stehender Nord in collabora-tion with subproject 2 (Dipl.-Ing. Ralf Schlüter, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Helmut Mischo; Photos below). The obtained drill cores were documented and will be used in forthcoming studies. Indium and tin mineralisations in the skarn deposit Hämmerlein are being studied in two M.Sc. the-ses (Kästner, Richter). Indium concentrations of up to 20 wt.-% were detected in some sphalerites (EPMA). Element mapping with the electron beam microprobe of the Helmholtz-Institute Freiberg (Dr. Joachim Krause) impressively show the coupled substitution of Cu+ + In3+ ↔ Zn2+ in sphalerite (figures on p. 11).

Subproject 1: Top left: Drilling activities; Top right: Breakthrough of the first 8 m long core drill in the foot wall drift; Bottom: Winning (left) and documentation (right) of core samples


EPMA X-ray element mapping of an In and Cu-rich sphalerite, surrounded by chalkopyrite and mag-

netite; Resolution 1 pixel ≅ 3 µm; (d) Cu Kα X-ray signal, (e) In Lα X-ray signal, (f) Zn EDS signal

Subproject 4 (Judith Heinrich, Prof. Gerhard Heide). The synthesis of chemically pure and doted sphalerite via gas phase transport and high-pressure – high-temperature treatment was expanded this year, – was in collaboration with the Institute of Inorganic Chemistry and the first Krüger-Research Kolleg, the Freiberg High-Pressure Research Centre. The coupled substitution of zinc by indium and copper is now in the planning. By adding iron, the material shall become more analogous to natural environments. The results were presented and viv-idly discussed during the annual meeting of the German Crystallographic Society in Stuttgart and during a Summer School of the European Mineralogical Union in Vienna.

Left: SEM image of undated, high-pressure-high-temperature-treated Zn-Sulfide with crystallite grain sizes of up to 20 µm. Right: Typical crystallographically-oriented, pyramidal etching structures

in Fe-rich sphalerite, SEM image (BSE)

Antonia Korda defended her Bachelor thesis on the comparative biological and chemical leaching of sample material from the ore gangue Wilhelm Stehender Nord, Reiche Zeche. In addition to the formation of typical, pyramidal etching structures in the Fe-rich sphalerite (photos above), we could observe suppressed formation of precipitates in the biological vari-ant. Antonia Korda could present her results not just during her defence but also at the Inter-national Conference of Young Scientists at the St. Petersburg Mining University.


Subproject 5 (Christine Pilz, Stephanie Uhlig, Alexander Pleßow, Prof. Jörg Matschullat).

Round Robin Tests. Our doctoral students Christine Pilz and Stephanie Uhlig were large-ly busy this year with characterising our new In-House reference material ‘TUBAF-KB’ and organising two related round robin tests. This included time-consuming homogeneity testing (DIN ISO 13528) and various investigations on long-term oxidation behaviour of the material. Sample aliquots were sent around the world in late 2015 to eight renowned laboratories: 1) Bundesanstalt für Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe (BGR – German Geological Survey), 2) Geoscience Australia, 3) Norges Geologiske Undersøkelse (NGU – Geological Survey of Norway), 4) United States Geological Survey (USGS), as well as universities 5) UNICAMP Brazil, 6) KIT Karlsruhe, Germany, 7) TU Bergakademie Freiberg, and 8) University of Queensland, Australia). Additional aliquots were sent in 2016 to three commercial labs: 9) ActLabs, 10) Acmelab and 11) ALS global.

The analysis of the future refence material TUBAF-KB was rather demanding due to its com-plex matrix. The analytical characterisation took all participants considerably longer than an-ticipated. Accordingly, subsequent professional evaluation of the tests could be triggered in the third quarter of 2016 only. Results are expected after the editorial closing of this report.

Parallel to the international round robin test, where various analytical techniques including X-ray fluorescence analysis (WD-XRF) were applied, a second round robin test was organized within the German community of ICP-MS laboratories. Here, we sent ready-made blind and sample solutions after digestion to all participants. Few labs prepared their own digestions in addition and worked according to our suggested procedure. The evaluation of this test series was generously taken on by the Thuringian State Agency for Agriculture (TLL).

Left: Comparison of preliminary results of the worldwide round-robin test with the German ICP-MS community ring test. Right: Zu score of the analytical results of the ICP-MS ring test of the geochemi-

cal labs of TU Bergakademie Freiberg (large) and another lab (small inset)

A first comparison of the ICPMS round robin test with preliminary results of the international round robin trial shows fine agreement of results (Figure top left). The figure at right stands for our score in the round robin test (large picture) in comparison with scoring of another par-ticipating lab. The Zu-score is a measure for the deviation of a measured value of one lab from the average value of all labs; deviations of up to ±2 are seen as acceptable.


The little deluge. Of course something like this happens on a Sunday. Very strong and highly localized precipitation fell on parts of Freiberg on May 27th. It flooded major parts of our basement (Werner-Bau) and all laboratories. Thanks to the very fast and extremely help-ful voluntary Freiberg fire brigade, alarmed by our janitor Michael Müller, as well as Christine Pilz, Jörg Matschullat, Kamal Zurba, Matthias Bauer, Stephanie Uhlig, Raghid Sabri, and Tom Járóka, who thanks to a telephone chain were quickly on location, the water masses could rapidly be pumped out and wiped up. This certainly prevented much larger damage. Most harmed were our gas chromatograph and the pump of one of our mass spectrometers. We are very thankful to our chancellor Jens Then for enabling us to regulate the damage quickly. All systems go!

From left to right: Freiberg firefighter engaged for us. Several centimetres of dirty rainwater flooded

into the cellar entrance. Christine takes up a chemical substance that turned out to be harmless potassium permanganate. Fire brigade truck; one team member is a Freiberg geoecologist

Master Geoscience study plan revised; Double degree signed with Petersburg Partner University. Ready for the new winter term 2016/17, the Master course Geosci-ence could be renovated. This took care of recent experience and personell changes amongst teaching staff.

Starting this winter term, a double-degree contract was signed with the St. Petersburg Mining University. This contract allows mineralogy students within the geoscience course to receive credit points for work successfully done in St. Petersburg. The future certificates at the end of their studies yields a related remark that their diploma is being recognized in both countries. The same applies for St. Petersburg students of geology taking courses with us.

Left to right: Vladimir Tichonowitsch Borzenkov (Director of International Affairs), Prof. Irina Talovina (Historical and Dynamic Geology), Prof. Gerhard Heide (General and Applied Mineralogy) and Rector Prof. Klaus-Dieter Barbknecht signing the contract during the 4th Annual Meeting of the World Forum of Universities of Resources on Sustainability (WFURS) September 28th in Saint Petersburg


WG General and Applied Mineralogy

Cooperation contract between the State Art Collections Dresden and TU Bergakademie Freiberg. Since the opening the historic museum ‘Neues Grünes Gewölbe’, contacts have been established between our institute’s staff and the Dresden State Art Collections involving expertise in geological objects used in art and architecture, as well as in museum work. These have intensified over recent years, particularly in the research on the origin and preservation of objects. At the same time several students have deepened their knowledge in mineralogy while doing internship and qualification works in this partnership.

Right (left to right): Prof. Gerhard Heide, Rector Prof. Klaus-Dieter Barbknecht, Andreas Frauendorf (Rüst-kammer Dresden), Prof. Dirk Syndram (Deputy Di-rector General of the State Art Collections Dresden) und Rainer Richter (Head of the Restauration Department, Grünes Gewölbe) while signing the cooperation contract (© Detlev Müller)

A new level of collaboration has been reached with the signatures on the cooperation contract by Prof. Dirk Syndram, Deputy Director General of the State Art Collections Dresden, and Prof. Klaus-Dieter Barbknecht, Rector of the TU Bergakademie Freiberg, on September 13th. Intensified research efforts in museums while incorporating new partners is the distinct aim of this effort. Already now, the partners made surprising discoveries, e.g. on the use and source of the ‘Zabeltitz diamonds” (below) in the armory and the precious stone collection of the ‘Grünes Gewölbe’.

Of diamonds and gravel. ‘Zabeltitz diamonds’ are a rarity and used to be a pride of the Saxon Electors. What are they worth? (Reprint of an article by Susanne Plecher in Säch-sische Zeitung from 14.04.2016). Right: Here is how the Zabeltitz diamond looks like. This exemplar, owned by Volker Wilhelms from Treugeböhla, is almost colourless and rounded like a pebble. The reference site? It, of course, remains a secret (© Klaus-Dieter Brühl)

Zabeltitz. A crowd assembles around Dr. Ulf Kempe, rummaging pockets and bags. This evening the people from Zabeltitz reveal well-protected treasures – to be released from their own hands only under the greatest care. “Is that one?” young and old are asking. Whistling through the teeth can be heard, and “Whow, that one looks hot” sounds from another direction.

Ulf Kempe takes every one of the treasures between his fingers, scrutinizes carefully the transparency, gloss, weight. After proper evaluation, he may confirm: “Yes, that is one”. The finder cannot withhold joy and pride.

Now he knows for sure that he owns one of those rare stones carrying the name ‘Zabeltitz’. The so-called ‘Zabeltitz diamonds’ were especially sought-after in the 18th Century. They were found on fields to the east of the village, somewhere between Nasseböhla and the peat holes. Nothing more specific is known and those that find one indeed, will keep quiet about its origin. People neither wish to generate a gold rush mood, nor do they intend to attract unwanted touirists with spades and pickaxes. “I realized quickly that the Zabeltitz people know more


about their ‘diamonds’ than they wish to reveal”, says the scientist. The mineralogist re-searches and teaches at the TU Bergakademie Freiberg. He studied those stones intensively, investigated inclusions, bombarded them with electrons and studied them with laser beams. He came to Zabeltitz to give a talk about the milky-white gems together with Dietmar Enge from the association ‘Heimatpflege Röderaue’.

The people in the village know well that these rare stones are no real diamonds. “Those con-sist of pure carbon, show the highest known hardness and burn”, confirms the expert. The ‘Zabeltitz diamonds’ on the other hand are clear quartz, ideally as clear as water. These silici-um dioxide (SiO2) minerals came through glacial deposits into the region. “There were glacier tongues around here that pushed the gravel in front of them. Upon melting, they left heaps with the material”, Kempe explains.

Their true source lies likely in pegmatitic rocks of magmatic origin that were transported here from the North during the last ice ages. Similar stones have been detected particularly in the gravel deposits in front of end moranes. Drawing the conclusion that ice transported them here can be derived from their mostly round and abraded form. Other gem gravel pieces can sometimes be found in the fields around Zabeltitz: there is evidence of agates, jaspis, silicified wood.

What does that say about the material value of the alleged diamonds? “Whether they are val-uable, cannot be answered unequivocally”, Kempe says. Historically, “precious stones grown in our lands” as Johann Abraham Schneider called them, were certainly of material value. The Meissen goldsmith himself cut at least 927 of them and used them as diamond imitations in horse tack for Elector Johann Georg IV. This valuable horse tack made in 1694 later dressed the horse of August the Strong as he rode into Warsaw for his coronation.

Prince Xaver and Princess Elisabeth had many precious things made with this gravel, such as boxes, ear rings, shoe decorations and tobacco containers, as Dietmar Enge figured out from studying the old accounting books. In 1773, a necklace with Zabeltitz stones has been regis-tered for 11 Thaler, a substantial sum. As of the early 19th Century, clear quartzes could be imported for relatively low costs from overseas. That reduced the ‘Zabeltitz diamonds’ to pure ornamental stones and they lost their material value. Their spiritual value remains.

BMBF joint research project: Secondary Mining (SecMinStratEl). Final analyses on tailings material from the two Chilean locations El Teniente and El Toqui were performed this year with particular focus on X-ray microtomography (RµCT) jointly with the working group of professor Irina Talovina at the State University for Mining St. Petersburg, Gornií (picture p. 16). Topic and first results were presented during the “World Forum of Universities of Resources on Sustainability” in St. Petersburg, Russia. Tailing samples from El Toqui un-derwent flotation experiments in cooperation with the Helmholtz Institute Freiberg for Re-source Technology to regain sphalerite. Previous studies had shown that is occurs without intergrowth. The SecMinStratEl project ends on März 1st, 2017.

RCOB – a new project of Applied Mineralogy. A new project to grow and characterize oxoborates, type RCOB [RCa4O(BO3)3 mit R = Y, La-Lu] in the past two years between three groups from Bochum and Freiberg. Foundations were laid in Freiberg for the synthesis, single-crystal growth and characterisation (structure, thermal characteristics) of RCOB. Many questions related to structural characteristics remain unanswered. Also, many inconsistencies related to electromechanical characteristics demand further research. Together with Prof. Jürgen Schreuer (Crystal physics, Bochum), Prof. DC Meyer / Dr. H Stöcker (Experimental Physics, Freiberg) we (Prof. Götze, Prof. Heide, Dr. C Reuther) received three DFG-grants on “Structure-characteritics correlations and structural instabilities in high-temperature piezoelec-trika of the oxoborate family RX2Z2O(BO3)3 (X, Z = Ca, R = La, Y, Gd, Pr, Nd, Er)”.

Under the subtitle “Synthesis, single crystal structure and lattice constants” Freiberg’s miner-alogy will perform work on synthesis with variations of the cation positions R, X and Z as well as growth of the crystal types RCa4O(BO3)3 (R= La, Y, Gd, Nd, Er; eventually Pr) over the


next three years. Parallel to this, there are further investigations on structural details and thermal characteristics.

We are happy to report that our crystal growth system Oxypuller 05-03 (Cyberstar) receives an upgrade for its computer and steering technology (DFG support). This increases our hope to be able to pursue the growing of oxidic materials in years to come – rarely done in Germa-ny. The demand is there, both in respect to researching various materials and to industry. This is well known in Asian countries, where much larger capacities exist for the parallel in-vestigation of crystal species and their characterisation. To keep up certain fields of research and competence in crystal physics and material science without such materials from the oxic realm is limited since electromechanical characteristics can be studied best in single crystals. ... The next interesting group of substances is already waiting ...

The State University for Mining St. Petersburg, Gornií (Photo Maike Penz)

Last but not least: The “Friends of Mineralogy” (USA) selected our contribution “The Freiberg mining district, Saxony, Germany” by Andreas Massanek, Dirk Sandmann and Gün-ther Neumeier (2015) to be the best article of the year in “The Mineralogical Record”.

WG Geochemistry and Geoecology The year 2016 was highly moving. We lost great people and mentors, we gained new friends and colleagues and a dream is about to come true.

The dream: EcoRespira-Amazon. The acceptance for this project came in late 2015; first investments could be initiated. The first field campaign took place in February and March 2016 (rainy season); the second field campaign was successfully done in July and August this year (dry season). Momentarily, we prepare for the third field campaign in 2017. Our understanding of the biogeochemistry of the humid tropics is largely based on specific work at selective exemplary localities. This is certainly true for the Amazon basin. As such, area representative data for many parameters are missing. We help to fill this gap (http://blogs.hrz.tu-freiberg.de/ecorespira/).

Soil and ecosystem respiration, soil chemistry and physics are studied in EcoRespira-Amazon (Cover page) with a high spatial resolution at 13 locations in Amazonas state. Each location provides nearby areas with different land cover, always forest and various types of


post-forest land use. All areas represent ‘terra firme’, land that is not being flooded even in the rainy season. Ferralsols are the dominating soil type. This allows for a comparability of locations and sites and their data, covering Central Amazonia (Amazonas graben) and the slightly higher flanks of the basin along a transect from Boca do Acre to Apuí.

Left: Secondary forest near Lábrea at the western end of the Transamazônica Highway.

Right: Relief after each successful soil sample drilling exercise

Our junior lab technician, Claudia Malz, underwent several-days of practical lab training thanks to the hospitality of the Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research at KIT in Garmisch Partenkirchen (WG Atmospheric Environmental Research, Prof. Klaus Butterbach-Bahl). This has helped us to considerably improve the trace gas analysis on methane, ni-trous oxide and carbon dioxide with gas chromatography once again. It was significant sup-port not only for EcoRespira-Amazon but other parallel projects on soil respiration.

The project results contribute to our understanding of the key questions in global change research. At the same time we hope to obtain robust arguments for more sustainable land uses in this sensitive biome, which is considered one of the global tipping points.

The 100th, The 10th and The First. GOAL Workshop meeting and excursion in Colombia. The 10th GOAL workshop symposium with excursion took place from September 26 to October 01 – for the first time in Colombia. GOAL is a network of Latin American geo-science alumni, who have studied in Germany. The Geological Service in Bogotá hosted 38 participants from 13 Latin American countries and Germany. The proud survey celebrated its 100th anniversary and showed enormous hospitality and foreward-looking attitude.

Left to right: Salt offering in Zipaquirá; Mazico-de-Iguaque Mountains; Gold figurine in Museum in Bogotá

Inspiring talks and discussion, garnished with visits to the Gold and Emerald museums in Bogotá laid the knowledge foundations for the subsequent excursion into the region around Villa da Leyva. The salt city Zipaquirá attracted us with a visit to its active underground salt


mine. Villa de Leyva in the Boyocá district once was the seat of the Spanish Vice-Kings. The region offers today a broad spectrum of gripping Andean geology (fossil-rich mesozoic to cenozoic sequences), cultural-anthropological highlights (astronomical observatory Muisca), in addition to the extraordinary natural, cultural and biological diversity.

Tritium(3H)-Monitoring Saxony. In the 1960s already, Prof. Detlef Hebert (Institute of Ap-plied Physics) started monitoring tritium on our campus in Freiberg. The Chair of hydrogeology supported this effort by weekly sampling (Prof. Gerald Milde, 1967–1977, then Prof. Hanspeter Jordan, 1977–1992). From January 1, 1993 until 2015, Prof. Broder Merkel (same Chair) led and further developed 3H monitoring of local precipitation. In 2012 the related physics laborato-ry was dissolved. A former collaborator, Dr. Detlev Degering (VKTA – Strahlenschutz, Analytik & Entsorgung Rossendorf e. V.), took over the analytical challenge, now in the underground laboratory Felsenkeller in Dresden. Since 2015 our group continues to carry on the valuable monitoring with the support of Dr. Degering.

The first new data are now available: With 3H activities of 5.0 to 12.3 TU (tritium units; July 2015 to July 2016), the values lie withing the range if previous data (3.7 to 11.4 TU from September 2011 to May 2015). Compared with even older data (here as of 1985), current data are much lower (January 1985 to December 1999: 7.5 to 31 TU).

With mixed feelings. Dr. Stephanie Hänsel (picture left @ left) began geo-ecology courses in the winter term 2000/01 in Freiberg. She became a member of our group with her master’s work (Diploma) and would be shaping our group through her subsequent PhD and post-doctoral period. Since July 2016 Stephanie heads an interministerial work-ing group at the German Weather Ser-vice (DWD). We miss her.

The European Meteorological Society (EMS) awards its Young Scientist Travel Award every year. Junior scientists can

apply for this prestigious award. The prize includes travel costs to actively partake at any EMS (or partners’) conference. A selection committee decides about the awardee, based on the quality of the suggested contribution. For DACH 2016 conference in Berlin, Stefanie was honoured for her work “Evaluating the impact relevance of draught indices” (photo left with EMS treasurer Prof. Heinke Schlünzen presenting her the certificate).

UNEP GEO-6. Working for the United Nations cer-tainly was one of the more honourable tasks. Jörg Matschullat (Coordinating Lead Author) and Frank Zimmermann (Lead Author) were engaged by UNEP and UNECE for the sixth “Global Environmental Out-look” (GEO). Jointly with a team of colleagues, they took on responsibility to write the chapter on air quality in the Pan European realm (Eurasia). The 363-page report (picture right) offers complex insights into the current environmental status involving the key topics: Climate Change, Air Quality, Biodiversity and Ecosys-tems, Chemicals and Waste, Freshwater Resources, Coastal and Marine Environment, and Land and Soils. The report is available online at no charge on the web-site: http://web.unep.org/geo/.


Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Bernhard Ulrich (*17.03.1926, †14.10.2015) is dead. There are people that imprint the life of every scientist. The for-est/soil scientist and ecosystems researcher Bernhard Ulrich was such a person for Jörg Matschullat. Bernhard has not only been an impressive mentor during Jörg’s doctoral work, but became a role model, both from the human and scientific perspective. We learned rather late about the death of this inquisitive spirit. This man, who looked far into the future, followed what he deemed right despite many loud and unfair voices, and consistently succeeded to formulate relevant questions. The World is poorer without him.

Dr. Stefan Fachmann, the Freiberg geologist and Head of the Environment Section of Arcadis Deutschland GmbH, died unexpectedly on 12.01.2016. Since 2005 he led our Association of PracticePartners of the Interdisciplinary Environmental Research Centre (IÖZ) of the TU Bergakademie Freiberg. We became acquainted with him through this engagement and highly appreciated his activities. Cleverly evaluating, thinking ahead, highly engaged, and at the same time sympathetic and equipped with a fine sense of humour, he was an initiator, organisor and pioneer. Together with the members in the Association of PracticePartners of IÖZ e.V., we mourn his absence.

With Professor Roberto Cerrini Villas-Bôas (1943–2016) another unswerving, witty and ingeneous researcher left the stage. He led the Brazilian Centre for Technological Minerals (CETEM) in Rio de Janeiro. His enormous en-gagement, not only for Brazil and Latin America, but equally for the rights of Indigenous People in his country, his smart advice and incessant input for environmentally benign techniques and behavior remain unforgotten.

WG Economic Geology and Petrology New joint research projects were started up this year – all supported by BMBF. They are part of the funding priority “r4 – Innovative technologies for resource efficiency – Research to supply strategic raw materials” in the framework programme “Research for sustainable de-velopment (FONA3)”.

Monazite dating in Freiberg gneiss, location: elevator in Wernerbau building. Anyone who uses our new elevator in the Werner-Bau building steps on it, the Freiberg gneiss. The floor of our fancy elevator cabin is covered with gneiss slices, cut perpendicular to foliation. The material stems from large gneiss slabs that were encountered when the foundation of Werner-Bau needed to be excavated for the renovation works under the eleva-tor shaft. We got hold of one hand-sized piece from these fresh gneiss plates, which ended up as sample FGGN15 in the SAXMON project materials. Andreas Bartzsch and Roland Würkert prepared the thin section in the preparation lab of Helmholtz Institute Freiberg (HIF). The polished thin section of the garnetfree biotite-plagioklase-gneiss was subsequently searched for monazite under the scanning electron microscope in automatic mode (Mineral Liberation Analysis, Spare Phase Liberation Mode). Several up to 20 x 40 µm large monazite grains were found next to about 40 smaller ones. Using the electron beam microprobe JEOL-JXA8530 of HIF, Dr. Joachim Krause dated these monazites with the Th-U-Pb method. Most of the results define a forced isochron with a weighted average age of 350 ± 7 million years. A small group of analyses represents an isochron of 429 ± 22 Ma. The isochron of 350 Ma can be interpreted as the age of metamorphosis of this gneiss material during Variscan oro-genesis.


Left: Monazite and xenotime in Freiberg gneiss FGGN15 in an EDX-classified BSE image by SEM-MLA.

Right: Age dating of monazite with electron beam microprobe

1. GOOD Meeting – Graduate conference on “Geology Of Ore Deposits”. Following an idea of the Working Group for resource research of the German Mineralog-ical Society (DMG) to establish a conference for junior re-searchers in the area of mineral resource science in Germany, a first GOOD meeting took pace in Freiberg from March 15 to 17. Organised by young academics of TU Bergakademie Freiberg and the Helmholtz Institute Freiberg for Resource Technology (Oliver Frei, Marius Kern, Tom Járóka, Jörg Neßler and Doreen Fischer), the event enabled master and doctoral students as well as postdocs an opportunity to pre-sent and discuss their results. Contributions from about 40 participants covered a broad spectrum of mineral resource topics, from the mineralogical characterisation of individual deposits via fluid inclusion studies to the application of uncon-ventional isotopic systems. Two keynotes by Dr. Uta Alisch (Fugro Consult GmbH) and Prof. Hartwig Frimmel (University Würzburg) enriched the programme of the 2-day event. At the end, participants used the oppportunity to visit our research and teaching mine ‘Reiche Zeche’ in the Freiberg mining district.

Following this successful start of the format, the GOOD Meeting shall become an annual event at different scientific institutions in German-speaking countries. Next year (2017) the young scientists shall meet at Leibniz University Hannover, supported by the Federal Insti-tute for Geosciences and Natural Resources (Bundesanstalt für Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe). More information is available at: www.dmg-home.org/dmg-home/sektionen-arbeitskreise-kommissionen-und-projektgruppen/ak-rohstoffforschung/aktuelles/.

DESMEX (r4 project). Early this year, fluid-inclusion data were established for several samples of an antimony deposit in eastern Thuringia near the Bergaer Sattel; first tempera-ture and salinity constraints could be calculated. The samples were gathered already last year from our collections and from BGR. In late autumn, additional material was encountered at the Thuringian State Agency for Environment and Geology (TLUG) and prepared for anal-ysis. Microscopic and SEM-EDS (MLA) analyses detected various antimony-lead ore miner-als; their paragenesis could be identified. The chemical composition of these Sb ores shall be analysed with high spatial resolution with the electron microprobe by the end of the year.


Numerous Sb-concentrates were sepa-rated from the samples and prepared for geochemical and various isotopic analyses. The geochemistry concen-trates will be sent for analysis to Actlabs in Canada.

The DESMEX project saw a change in personnel in midyear; from Lisa Rich-ter to Patrick Krolop. Lisa delivered all obtained results to enable a smooth transition. Right: The DESMEX joint research team visits the open-pit site Dörtendorf

ResErVar (r4 project). The sampling in the tin chambers of Pöhla that started in 2015, continued. Our project partner Saxore Bergbau GmbH shot about 55 tons of sample material into the tin chambers. We jointly scutinized the material and loaded it over several days. Last year’s slit samples were documented in detail and sent to ALS in Rumania for analysis. The results were used to drive further sampling. Additional microscopic and SEM-EDS (MLA) analysis showed various ore types and their paragenesis. Isotope geochemical analyses (Rb-Sr and Pb-Pb) were done on Pöhla sphalerites. These investigations could be carried out during a short research stay of Jörg Ostendorf from Münster University.

One part of the deposit was “outsourced” as a sub project to be worked on in a Master the-sis. Here, Martin Miehlbradt mapped the tunnels and sampled for subsequent analysis. The samples underwent microscopic and SEM studies. Current results show distinct differences to other ore types are are now being studied geochemically and for fluid inclusions.

Large sample (55 t) in front of the tunnel opening in Pöhla

WISTAMERZ (r4 project). The delayed sampling of stream sediments in late 2015 in the Erzgebirge could be compensated for in 2016. More than 80 % of the study area has been covered, including the eastern, central and western Erzgebirge. Samples were sent regularly to ALS in Rumania. The obtained results already allow pinpointing anomaly areas. Next year, parts of Saxony’s Vogtland region will have to be sampled in order to gather a complete database for a complex metalogenetic analysis of the region.

Regular project partner meetings and exchange of expertise safeguarded the successful collaboration of the project partners: Institute of Mineralogy, Institute of Geology, Helmholtz Institute Freiberg for Resource Technology and Beak Consultants GmbH Freiberg. Jointly with colleagues from the related projects, ResErVar and AFK, regular meetings on the status and progress were possible.


The Vogtlandish ore district Oelsnitz-Schönbrunn serves as one of the areas to be studied in greater detail within WISTAMERZ – to be realised by Tobias Petermann within his PhD dis-sertation. The project partner, Beak Consultants, holds the exploration licence in this disc-trict. Anomalies of rare elements such as indium were encountered. Since the last detailed metalogenetic investigations in the area were made more than 25 years ago and many pre-liminary results obtained during the GDR period are lost, this disctrict leaned itself to detailed studies with the latest analytical methods. Plenty of sample material was gathered that is presently being processed for detailed studies. The fieldwork was enhanced by sampling of partly available deep-reaching core material at the Saxon State Agency for Agruiculture, En-vironment and Geology (LfLUG) and sampling completed through research of unpublished reports found in the LfULG archives.

News from our Labs

Analytical Geochemistry (Dr. Alexander Pleßow). Also in 2016, renovation and recon-struction works in our institute hampered the progress of work in our labs. The flooding of the labs after a torrential rain on May 27 (u p. 13) did not help either. We wish to thank all help-ing hands very warmly. The material damage to some instruments, particularly the gas chromatograph, could quickly be fixed thanks to the rapid response of our chancellor, Jens Then.

A modern water purification unit to produce ultraclean water for our lab (electrical conductivity <0.055 µS cm-1), an analytical balance, both from Sartorius, and an ultrasonic bath from Ban-delin could replace much older models that started to fail. At the end of the year, we were lucky to be able to buy a second-hand quadrupole ICP mass spectrometer DRC II from Perkin Elmer. Installation is scheduled for January 2017. For the first time, we shall be able to further improve detection limits for some critical elements, such as iron and arsenic, since the reaction cell eliminates various otherwise non-correctable mass interferences.

After Cornelius Oertel completed his lab work for his PhD the-sis, the GC-FID/ECD system (gas chromatograph) that he started up some years ago was taken over by Heidrun Kodym and Claudia Malz, who will oversee this technique in the fu-ture. Claudia Malz had a chance to learn for some days from very kind collagues at KIT in Garmisch-Partenkirchen. She became much more familiar with the system and learned a lot about quality control details. In the meantime, all gas samples from the EcoRespira-Amazon project are analzed successfully

with the upgraded system – thanks to DAAD and BMZ (see p. 16f).

In the heat of summer, 45 kg of Freiberg ore were crushed, ground and milled to analytical grade poweder (<63 µm) that will serve as in-house reference material as of 2017 (see p. 11f). The preceding photo (p. 22) shows Claudia Malz (left) and Christine Pilz (right) at the rotating disc mill. Prior to using the sample as a standard reference material, highly tedious and complex analytical work is needed, including round robin tests with other high-end la-boratories worldwide (p. 12).

The fire protection measures in the Werner-Bau forced us to move our CNS elemental ana-lyser down into the basement. This wonderful machine (El Cube) was successfully running after a short break. In addition to a huge amount of samples from the GEMAS project, Elvira Rüdiger diligently and partly with the help of dedicated students analysed mainly soil sam-ples from the Amazon, Brazil (EcoRespira-Amazon). Apart from the Elemental Analyzer, our Total Reflection X-Ray Fluorescence Spectrometre (PicoFox, Bruker AXS) found a new home on the ground floor.


In continuation of work performed by retired professor Werner Klemm, a master student, Marie Kreuseler, tries to improve the quantitative determination of fluoride using ion sensitive electrodes in digestion liquids. The defense of her thesis, which is part of the BHMZ activities (p. 9ff), is expected in 2017.

Specialist teacher, Ingo Pezold, and participants in his chemistry honours course from the Geschwister-Scholl-Gymnasium (higher secondary school) visited our labs on November 4th to obtain a deeper insight into the practice of instrumental analysis.

Geometallurgy Lab and Electron beam microprobe (Prof. Bernhard Schulz). Sig-nificant news can be reported from the Geometallurgy Lab (also referred to as MLA Lab for Scanning electron microscopy-based Mineral Liberation Analysis). After seven years of per-manent use, the two EDX detectors of the TUBAF-owned scanning electron microscope (MLA1) collapsed. Instead of repair, an upgrade to new and much more powerful EDX detec-tors from Bruker was done with the latest Bruker-Esprit software installed on a new PC with Windows 7. The more powerful automatic mode shall partly compensate for the forthcoming move of the other SEM MLA2 into the HIF-Lab on Chemnitzer street.

Both SEM machines served an extensive programme of research tasks again in 2016. Meth-odological emphasis lay on REE ores and their beneficiation products, on PGM ores and related slags. Increasing numbers of MLA analyses supported research in the Biohydro-metalurgical Centre (BHMZ) and the Institute of Technical Chemistry (TC) at our university. Many measuremwents were made in cooperation with Stavanger University (Norway) follow-ing fluid experiment on chalks. These more petrological tasks used the automated search for monazite (SAXMON project) and the creation of element distribution maps of garnet blasts in mica shales as well as amphibole blasts in blue schists and eclogites. Increasingly, vul-canites of all sorts, including Saxon specimens were studied jointly with the group of Prof. Christoph Breitkreuz (Institute of Geology, TUBAF). Our scanning electron microscopes were also used to support numerous third-party financed Bachelor and Master work, also from other TUBAF institutes, such as TC, IAM, MVTAT and GI.

By now 20 years old, the electron beam microprobe JEOL JXA-8900RL of TU Bergakademie is run by the Institute of Material Sciences. The Chair of Economic Geology and Petrology covered 50% of the sales price in 1996 and is entitled to use the instrument in the Institute of Material Sciences. Thirty extended measuring campaigns on mineral chemical analysis for the petrology of metamorphites and magmatites were done in 2016. We wish to express our gratitude to Dr. Dietrich Heger, the person in charge for the instrument. A replacement pur-chase for the electron beam microprobe is currently in preparation.

Research guests in the Geometallurgy Lab. The lab serves numerous colleagues and guests for investi-gations on their samples. We welcomed among others: Dr. Anna Pietranik (Warszawa University, Poland, in Au-gust), M.Sc. Mona Minde and M.Sc. Wenxia Wang (both Stavanger University, Norway, in April) as well as M.Sc. Ida Roisi (Trondheim University, Norway, in February). Left: Guest researcher M.Sc. Ida Roisi from the Department of Geology and Mineral Resources Engineering of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology Trondheim at the Scannning Electron Microscope in our Geometallurgy Lab

Isotope Lab (Prof. Marion Tichomirowa). 2016 was the year of repairs and change in per-sonnel in our lab (p. 8). After waving Klaus Bombach goodbye in late 2015 – he retired and well deserved – one part after the other of the aging mass spectrometer broke down. We had to exchange or repair the getter pump, turbo molecular pump, secondary electron multiplier, high voltage unit, to name but a few. The result was several months of down time of the in-strument. Dr. Bastian Wauschkuhn (01.02.–31.08.) was a great help during those repairs.


And we received offspring: Jennifer Schlicke delivered her son Jonathan in August 2016. Our lab now holds a top position in the performance figure children (or babies) per fulltime posi-tion (= ca. 2). As of August 1, Madlen Müller and Karin Drees replaced Jenny. Both have adapted very well to the new tasks in the lab. The student practical training was a challenge, but we did manage quite well. As of September 1, Dr. Alexandra Kässner completes our team as senior scientific staff. She does extremely well carrying out measurements at the mass spectrometer. As in the previous year, Angelika Braun supported us with sample prep-aration and zircone separation.

Despite such sub-optimal boundary conditions in the lab, we managed some truly nice re-search results. These included analyses of archaeological digs from the 11th to 13th Century at Petriplatz, Berlin, reflecting the likely first settlements of our capital. We discovered that those first settlers likely belonged to two different local groups that imported meat. Neither the investigated pigs, nor cows were raised near Berlin. We are curious if we can figure out that riddle. In addition, we worked on several samples with high-precision U-Pb single zir-cone dating. This delivered first precise ages for tuffs that were studied in detail by palaeon-tologists. This enabled a fine correlation now with other stratigraphic profiles (cooperation with WG Prof. Jörg Schneider).

X-ray diffractometry (Dr. Reinhard Kleeberg). Lab development in 2016 was based on a series of activities. In June the Empyrean diffractometer was moved from room 33 into the HIF building on Chemnitzer Street, thus released from our responsibility. We received as a gift a 1993-built XRD-7 by the Hamburg customs authority; the preparation of this machine for its use in practical student training is not yet finished. No progress yet in modernizing the XRD3000TT and no money yet for a new detector. An improvement of sample preparation has been realized by building a ventilation-aeration system for spray-dry powdered samples.

Through a series of various repairs, the old diffractometers could work almost undisturbed. We could exchange three used-up X-ray tubes and a defective high voltage cable without paying for service. More recent models replaced two old control computers.

Research. All X-ray diffractometrc works in various projects in the institute were safeguard-ed. Our lab has prepared the 8th Reynolds-Cup in the first months of this year; samples were mailed out and results evaluated. With 83 registrations and 69 returns, we could finalize the round. Results were presented at the CMS meeting in Atlanta on June 7th. Organizing and running this round robin test was an enormous achievement by our lab team that brought us quite some international acclaim.

WG Geoscientific Collections Development of our Collections. Lots of new specimen could be registered this year in the Geoscience Collections. Next to 115 newcomers in the Mineralogical Collections, 466 in the Mineral Deposits Collection and 81 in the Petrological Collction, two entire private collec-tion takeovers deserve mentioning.

One is a collection of natural ashlar and natural stone plates from Dr. Hans-Joachim Bell-mann, Markkleeberg. Since May 2004 already, our Collections regularly received polished rock plates from Dr. Bellmann, amassing by now to 802 such plates in the Petrological Col-lection. Various formats of the natural stone plates are available, with 24 x 15 x 2 cm being the most common size. Each is accompanied by a list describing the rock name, natural ash-lar or natural stone names, country/location of origin, geological formation, as well as com-ments on size and shape of each plate. The collection covers rocks from all over the world, but mostly from Germany, Brazil, India and Italy. The relative share of magmatites, sediment-ites and metamorphites is roughly balanced. This new addition will soon be shown in one of the next special exhibits of our Collections.


We are very happy and thankful for his large commitment and the cost-free provisioning of the stones. Until 1965, Dr. Bellmann studied geology at TU Bergakademie Freiberg and Martin-Luther-University Halle/Wittenberg. He defended his PhD with Prof. Hans-Jürgen Rösler in 1976. Later Hans-Joachim Bell-mann worked as geologist in the lignite districts to the south of Leipzig. All the time, he collaborated closely with our Mineralogi-cal Institute. In parallel, he organized numerous interships and supervised master theses. From 1979 to 1990 he taught part-time lignite exploration and coal geology at Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University in Greifswald. Right: Polished rock plates from the collections of Dr. Bellmann (Photo: Dr. Christin Kehrer)

The other is a private collection from Diploma-Mineralogist Ulrich Lipp, Schneeberg (photo below). Particular thanks go to the Board of Directors of the Stuttgart Friends of Minerals and Fossils, which were offered the collection for a price. They felt sorry that the collection of a mineralogist would be split into parts and asked us, if we would be interested to take it over. Although the specimens were numbered, labels were often missing and there was no cata-logue. Andreas Massanek did not know the collection at this point, but he knew about it through the long-term contacts to Siegfried Flach, collector and Honorary Citizen of TU Bergakademie Freiberg. His extensive mineral deposit colelctions were taken over last year as a donation. So it made sense to contact Siegfried Flach to ask for his opinion on the Lipp collection.

Siegfried Flach reacted immediately, since he knew the collection of his friend Ulrich Lipp (*1929–†1996; Photo left from Barbara Dewald, Stuttgart) very well. He had even made an expertise on its material val-ue for the family. During the phone conversation Andreas Massanek learnt that Siegfried Flach had found substantial accompanying materi-als in the meantime. These were from Ulrich Lipp and were missing after some basement fire event. This information supported hope that it could be possible to relate an exact location to those many specimens without label. A few days later, Siegfried Flach called. He had kept him-self busy day and night with the resurfaced Lipp Collection and simply

rejoiced in the idea that both the Lipp Collection and his own could be united in Freiberg for generations to come and for scientific evaluation.

Custos Andreas Massanek reported about the still not available budget for acquisition of specimens, let alone entire collections. Siegfried Flach interrupted him saying: “Andreas, I will buy the collection and donate them to you!” Shortly thereafter the custos could pick up the collection from Stuttgart. The Stuttgart Friends of Minerals again gave a helping hand: their chairman, Thomas Jachmann, helped to pack the items and deserves a very heartfelt Thank you. Massanek immediately drove with all specimens to Siegfried Flach in Damme. The subsequent two days were most successful, since jointly with the notes from Ulrich Lipp and the numbers on the specimens their locations could largely be reconstructed. Those with labels were checked and could be confirmed. As of this point, the collections had a com-pletely different value. Most specimens were pieces of evidence with highly precise provi-dence information. Most specimens from the Schlema-Hartenstein district in the Erzgebirge, for instance, information on shaft, precise gangue, depth and mining location – making the collection highly valuable for scientific exploitation. How did Ulrich Lipp obtain such precise providence information? That is easy to understand when looking at his vita: Ulrich Lipp was born on August 17, 1929. At 17 years of age, he started in October 1946 as miner at the former SAG Wismut. He successfully passed a six-month training at the former Bergtechnikum in Freiberg and worked as a foreman. After another training course in Freiberg from June 1950 to July 1951, he passed the high school exam at Bergakademie


Freiberg and registered there as an external student in the winter term 1951/52 in mining engineering. He changed direction in summer 1952 and took up full-time studies as of au-tumn 1952 at our Mineralogical Institute. Lipp graduated in autumn 1957 as Diploma-Mineralogist. Following four months of assistantship, Ulrich Lipp worked as Head of Mineral-ogy in the Aue mining district of SDAG WISMUT. He was responsible e.g., for registration and investigation of accompanying components such as bismuth, cobalt, nickel and silver ores in the uranium deposit Schlema-Alberoda.

In the spring of 1958, he became extracurricular aspirant at Bergakademie Freiberg and took up systematic studies of those Bi-Co-Ni-Ag mineralisations in Schlema-Alberoda. The com-plex study kept him busy until late 1967. Thereafter, he started his PhD dissertation. Ulrich Lipp not only registered all uranium ore gangues under active exploitation, but identified whether other processing-relevant amounts of accompanying minerals were present. In par-allel he thoroughly studied older archival materials from the early years of uranium mining to test if ores of the Bi-Co-Ni-Ag formation were still present that might not have been mined due to lacking uranium in their neighborhood and that might still be worthy of exploitation. With enormous effort in time and work, he studied the genetical boundary conditions of these ores and their distance from the underlying contact with the granitic massiv to reveal secrets of the mineralisation.

Ulrich Lipp could not crown his efforts with a PhD degree, however. The four copies of his work that were submitted in 1971 were confiscated by his employer SDAG WISMUT and declared classified. This professional secrecy ended only in 1988.

Left: Hematite on siderite, -720 m level, Southern flank, II. Zone, track 13, Field treck 1135 E at 88.0 on-site, Schlema-Hartenstein, Erzgebirge, Saxony, 9 x 7 cm (Gift from Siegfried Flach, Damme; former collection Ulrich Lipp, Schneeberg; Photo: A. Massanek)

Due to a fatal occupational disease, Ulrich Lipp died on July 19, 1996. His dissertation sur-vived. It is again thanks to Siegfried Flach that this work could be published as a monograph on mining in the series “Mining in Saxony” as volume 10 in January 2003 by the Saxon State Agency for Agriculture, Environment and Geology (LfULG).

The Ulrich Lipp Collection can roughly be subdivided into three parts. The most important part certainly is his specialized mineralogical-mineral deposit collection with specimens from Alberoda-Schlema-Hartenstein with roughly 300 specimens and precise information. A se-cond part encompasses minerals from his time in Freiberg, collected during excursions or traded in. These are typical Freiberg district minerals, with some very special smokey quartz specimens from the granite quarry Naundorf near Freiberg from the 1950s. The third part consists of minerals from all over the world, which were partly gifts from other students who had worked in other mining districts. This includes some filigrane gypsum specimens from the Eisleben copper shale mines.

Work for “terra mineralia” in Freudenstein Castle and for the “Mineralogical Collection Germany” in the Krüger House. The success in 2016 of the permanent exhibits “terra min-eralia” in Freudenstein Castle and in the Krüger House was largely assured by the staff members of the Geoscience Collections. All display cases in the America and Europa halls were thoroughly cleaned from the inside and specimens freed from fine dust where needed – all during the one week of museum closure in January. To do this, all display cabinets need-ed to be completely emptied and after cleaning, carefully reassembled. The same procedure was necessary in the Krüger House during its four-day closure. More than 700 work hours for ‘terra mineralia’ plus more than 600 hours for the ‘Mineralogical Collection Germany’ in Krüger House were needed. To compensate somewhat for this extreme strain, the Dr.-Erich-


Krüger-Foundation financed a half-time scientist’s position, which was filled in June by Mi-chael Gäbelein. Several loan contracts expired in 2016 for the exhibit ‘Mineralogical Collec-tion Germany’, which posed a significant challenge for the custos to find suitable replace-ments.

Many presentations at collectors meetings, personal talks and fair participations helped us to encounter new doners and lenders, or convince former lenders to extend their contracts. In 2016, the ‘Mineralogical Collection Germany’ developed continuously in this way: Seven people donated specimens, two of them “repeat offenders”. In the meantime, 78 donors and 77 lenders (10 museums amongst these) support this national collection. The donated ob-jects alone represent a material value of 220,000 Euro. We exchanged specimens in eight showcases, so that repeat visitors will always discover something new.

Particularly noteworthy are a number of new specimens such as agates from Felsenschlag in the Thuringian Forest and from Mammendorf in Flechtingen Hills, multiface pyrites from the mine Bayerland (Oberpfalz) and a pure quartz specimen that is partially crystalized as ame-thyst. The former institute lab technician, Regina Blüthig, donated crystal models made of glass. A large druse was opened in January 2016 in the fluorspar mine Niederschlag with exquisitely shaped specimens. Dr. Erika Krüger and Mr. Pönitz donated one specimen each for the Mineralogical Collection Germany. The largest one weighs 207 kg and is roughly 110 cm wide. Named “The pearl of Saxony”, it currently sits in the Krüger House on loan.

Left: Agate with hematite, Cronenberger quarry, 1st level, Mammendorf, Hohe Börde, Saxony-Anhaltina, 11 x 7 cm (donated by Family Grobelny, Wolfenbüttel). Right: Fluorite with baryte, Nieder-schlag near Bärenstein, Erzgebirgskreis, Erzgebirge, Saxony, 43 x 33 cm (donated by Dr. Erika Krüger, Ammerland; Photos: Andreas Massanek)

Work for and with the Pohl-Ströher-Minerals Foundation in 2016 intensified the collaboration with Swiss institutions. The most intense cooperation focused on the Museum for Natural History in Berne. Dr. Beda Hofmann, curator of the museum’s Earth Science Collections, is now engaged as member of the Founders Council of the Pohl-Ströher Mineral Foundation. Since Andreas Massanek’s presentation in Switzerland caused excitement in many Swiss collectors about the Krüger House, there are now two lenders and one donor from there.

Research in the Collections. After a three-year period, three DFG projects (HE 3015/5-1, HE 3015/6-1, VO 902/2-1) successfully ended. This involved building a web-based system to explore, digitise and visualise the historical mineralogical characteristics collection of Abra-ham Gottlob Werner, the fuel-geological collection and the thin section of TU Bergakademie Freiberg. Within these projects that are part of a joint proposal of the mining and geoscience collections in Freiberg and Dresden (HE 3015/7-1), related tools were developed and the aforementioned collections were catalogued. The framework project that concerns the de-velopment of the database ‘Aquila’ runs until 2017. During this time, the database shall be tested inside out. In the future, all items in the collections of TU Bergakademie Freiberg shall be entered in this database system and made available for a wide circle of interested sicentists online. All work was and will be performed jointly with the Senckenberg Natural History Collections in Dresden and Frankfurt.


A sub-project to digitise and explore resource-geological data of the scientific collections of the Institutes of Mineralogy and Geology was started within the project ROHSA 3 together with the Saxon State Agency for Agriculture, Environment and Geology. The geologist, Peter Tschernay, and mineralogist, Susanne Eberspächer, are responsible for these tasks.

Shijia Gao, gemologist (M.Sc.) and scholarship holder, has obtained her degree at the Chi-nese University for Geosciences in Beijing. Shija now works on the historical collections of gems from Abraham Gottlob Werner.

The collections were intensively used by scientists of TU Bergakademie Freiberg and by other institutions within and outside of Germany. The Paleontological and Stratigraphical Collections were integrated in diverse research projects. The following guest researchers stayed with us for their investigations: Dr. Martin Machalsky, Poland, specialist for mandibles of Ammonoidea; Dr. Jiri Kvacek, Czech Republic, specialist for Cretaceous flora and Dr. Lorenzo Marchetti, Italy, specialist for trace fossils. Material from the main collections was also loaned out for scientific work: Material of the Pfeiffer collection ‘Bohlen’ was loaned to Dr. D. Weyer in Berlin, and permineralised wood to Steffen Trümper (M.Sc.), Museum for Natural History Chemnitz. Material from the Fuel Geological Collection was sent to the German Museum in Munich.

In 2016, 34 scientific requests for materials from the Geoscience Coleections could be granted and the material made available. This related mostly to minerals and repository doc-uments, and also rock samples. Most requests came from Bergakademie colleagues this year: 11 from our institute, 8 from the Institute of Technical Chemistry, one each from: Inter-disciplinary Environmental Research Centre, Institute of Biosciences, and Institute of Ceram-ics, Glass and Construction Technology. External requests came from the Helmholtz-Centre Dresden-Rossendorf and Freiberg (8), Geoforschungszentrum Potsdam (1) and from the Federal Institute for Material Research and Testing Berlin (1). Additional requests came from individuals and associations.

Invited by collector groups in Weserbergland and Fichtelgebirge, the custos of our collections took part in two research excavations. The first journey led to Taubenberg in Weserbergland. The area is long known for so-called Schaumburg diamonds. These are rock crystals and smoky quartz in small druse hollows in quartzitic horizons of Keupermarl, with some minerals occurring in szepter prisms. The excavation was very successful; numerous samples were taken for research purposes. A big thank you to the adminstration of the Lower Saxony State Forestry Agency for their uncomplicated digging permit and to the two collectors, Martin Hubrig and Bernd Dormke, who dedicated the all material found to Bergakademie.

Left: Excavation work in Grafenreuth, Fichtelgebirge (Foto: A. Massanek)

The second dig in Grafenreuth in Fichtelgebirge was triggered by an invi-tation to our curator by the organisers of the mineral fair in Marktleuthen. In a field near town, artichoke-like quartz crystals were encountered at about two meters depth. After the clean-up work, the collectors group around Thomas Müller will provide a representative specimen for the Krüger House.

Team members supervised five high-school interns, who each worked for two weeks in our collections. They came from the sec-ondary high schools in Hartha, Freiberg and Brand-Erbisdorf. For the first time, we could jointly with terra mineralia recruit a young volunteer, Anne Fischer (from Voluntary Ecological Year program). Anne is a valuable support for Dr. Birgit Gaitzsch. In her first weeks, Anne


revised the type designations of the Palaeontological Collection. That is the original material from first descriptions; about 800 in the collection.

‘Digitalisation and access to resource geological data of the Institute of Mineralogy and the geoscientific collections of TU Bergakademie Freiberg’ is a new project, since September 2016 part of the mega project ROHSA 3 (Resources Saxony), financed until November 2017 through the Saxon State Agency for Environment, Agriculture and Geology.

Mineralogist Susanne Eberspächer (Diplom) and geologist Peter Tschernay (Diplom) are involved in this third-party project as scientific staff. They search resource-related old databases (printed documents, sample specimens) with relevance for Saxony, digitise them and thereby, protect them from physical de-cay. Such digitized geo-data are a unique base for many scientific works on geo and resource science.

Qualification works (B.Sc., M.Sc., PhD) from TU Bergakademie Freiberg students

Public relations/Special exhibits. Quite some active PR work was performed again in 2016. Dr. Birgit Gaitzsch cared for the Geo-WG of the 4th grade of Georg-Agricola School in Freiberg. On ‘Girlsday’ she led the programme “You want to be stinking rich?” for school girls (stinky rich is ‘stone rich’ in German). The ‘School Kids University’ attracted many – the key topic was ‘sand’. On September 11, the Day of the Open Monument lured many people into the Werner-Bau collections and related guided trours though our house (p. 3).

Most of our related work was dedicated to the many exhibition activities: 18 special and per-manent exhibits were designed with pieces from our geoscience collections. Unfortunately, we could not realize any new special exhibits in our own building due to the intense renovation and recon-struction work that simply led to vast delays. In the meantime, however, the showcases in the foyer, on the ‘Werner wall’ and outside of the building have new light-ing and partly have objects already on exhibit again.

At TU Bergakademie Freiberg, the Mineralogical Col-lection was active designing the special exhibit ‘Magic of crystals – the mystic of black tourmalines’ in terra mineralia. For this exhibit, 39 turmaline specimens were supplied; amongst them is the largest Saxon black tourmaline ‘Schörl’ with a weight of more than 40 kg. The exhibit, together with loans from the Museum of Mineralogy and Geology Dresden (Senckenberg), the Museum of Natural History Chemnitz and private lenders was conceptualized by Dr. Paul Rustemeyer and Luisa Dietrich and designed from the team of terra mineralia and our collections. Right: Exhibit poster ‘Magic of crystals – the mystic of black tourmalines’ (Graphics: Ungermeyer, Berlin)

The exhibit “Secret Lights – the secret of glowing stones” was opened in January in the Ame-thyst World at Maissau (Amethystwelt Maissau), Austria. We provided large numbers of lu-minescend minerals. Due to the great response, that exhibit will be extended into 2017.


We could enliven the exhibit on the life and impact of Lorenz von Pansner with a total of 97 objects

(Photo: Dr. Christin Kehrer)

The special exhibit ‘Invented. Researched. Built.’ was opened on November 11 in the Arnstadt Palace Museum. The exhibit presents three centuries of scientists from natural sciences and humanities that are closely connected to Arnstadt. The exhibit idea came from Prof. Heide, who also conceived part of the exhibit jointly with our collections and the Palace Museum. This part was about Lorenz von Pansner (photos above). Pansner, born 1777 in Arnstadt, went to Russia after his studies at Jena University. From 1818 to 1822, he served as profes-sor for mineralogy at the University of St. Petersburger. He was made responsible for sur-veying the Russian-Chinese border. His impact as mineralogist in Russia, his scientific work and his correspondence was meticulously evaluated in the PhD dissertation of Lidia Stokratskaya. Our Geoscientific Collections enriched this special exhibit with minerals, de-posit examples and fossils from locations where Lorenz von Pansner lived and worked. Dr. Birgit Kreher-Hartmann, custos of the Mineralogical Collection of Jena University lent original specimens from Russia, which Pansner had personally sent to Jena.

Several museums received objects for their special exhibits: the museums for natural history in Chemnitz, Magdeburg and Gera, the Geoskop Thallichtenberg and the Rhenish State Mu-seum in Trier. We presented special exhibits during mineral fairs (Marktleuthen, Freiberg, Munich, Hamburg), whereby the Geoscientific Collection and terra mineralia exhibited to-gether with other museums in Munich and Hamburg (e.g., in Munich’s museums of natural history, in university collections in London, Milan, Harvard, Cambridge, Rome, Baia Mare, Munich, Vienna, Dublin, Paris, Florence, Zagreb, Graz, Stockholm, and in Hamburg with the Mineralogical Museum of Marburg University).

A joint exhibit with terra mineralia at Europe’s largest mineral show in Munich (Photo left, Andreas Massanek) again was completely overrun by visitors on every single day. Visitors wanted to partake in the ‘Geo Ralley’ and at an interactive pro-gramme ‘Quarz’. The presentation of a new volume of ‘Edition Krüger Foundation’ became a particular highlight. Authors, Ludi von Bezing and Rainer Bode, signed the first copies of the second volume on minerals and mineral sites in Namibia.

In Hamburg, 45 showcases were designed on “The Andes hosted in Hamburg”. This exhibit was organised jointly with Dr. Jaroslav Hyršl, Rainer Bode and Dr. Olaf Medenbach. Again together with ‘terra mineralia’, we looked after an interactive stand on ‘Vulcanism’. It is this collaboration between our Geoscientific Collections and terra mineralia that makes the TU Bergakademie Freiberg the only university these days that can actively take part in such fairs and shows. Young people interested in studies in Freiberg are actively addressed and receive information and advice on the entire spectrum of our university.


Obituary for Johannes Gulich. The former mining fore-man of the Gottesehre mine near Urberg, Black Forest, and long-term friend and supporter of our Freiberg collections passed away on August 17th after a short but terminal ill-ness. The former miner, born in the eastern Erzgebirge (Pho-to right taken at a Freiberg mineral show in 2011 with a torbernite-quartz specimen from Assunção, Portugal) has made himself immortal with some of his specimens and a video portrait in the ‘Gallery of Collectors’ exhibited in the Mineralogical Collection Germany in the Krüger House. Some of his specimens are on display in the Mineralogical Collection in Werner-Bau, e.g., mimetesite and baryte from the Black Forest and copper minerals from Lavrion, Greece. Recently he donated a torbernite-quartz specimen from Por-tugal, similar to the one in the picture. We wish to pay tribute to him for all his support and engagement.

Our team, including Collections (C) Permanent staff Christine Anders – Angelika Braun – Doreen Fischer – Ulrike Fischer, ehem. Krause – Oliver Frei – Birgit Gaitzsch (C) – Jens Götze – Jens Gutzmer – Sabine Haser – Gerhard Heide (+C) – Margitta Hengst – Kurt Herklotz – Tobias Höfig – Katja Horota – Alexandra Käßner – Christin Kehrer (C) – Ulf Kempe – Heidrun Kodym – Reinhard Kleeberg – Andreas Mas-sanek (C) – Jörg Matschullat – Sabine Karbautzki, ehem. Mühlberg – Jörg Ostendorf – Alex-ander Pleßow – Elvira Rüdiger – Jennifer Schlicke, ehem. Glanz – Bernhard Schulz – Thomas Seifert – Marion Tichomirowa – Katrin Treptow (C) – Thurit Tschöpe – Steffi Ungar (C) – Kristin Unger – Karin Volkmann – Roswitha Wald (C) – Ina Wichmann – Frank Zim-mermann

… and the reinforcements (Postdocs, guest scientists, doctoral students, appren-tices, interns) Yasser Abd El-Rahman – Juan Alcalde – Matthias Bauer – Falk Böttcher – Arturo Bravo – Dominique Brising – Mathias Burisch – Anja Dabrowski – Diego Delegado – Thomas Dittrich – Karin Drees – Susanne Eberspächer (C) – Anne Engler – Anne Fischer (C) – Björn Fritzke (C) – Sophie von Fromm (I) – Michael Gäbelein (C) – Asija Gaifutdinova – Kristin Galonska – Shijia Gao (C) – Björn Goldberg (C) – Artem Gusev – Stephanie Hänsel – Beata Heide (C) – Judith Heinrich – Thomas Höfig – Michael Hohf – Tom Járóka – Tilman Jeske – Alexandra Kässner – Ilya Kogan (C) – Linda Krahé – Jan-Michael Lange – Daniel Leistner – Carolina Lopez – René Luhmer – Elena Malevanik – Claudia Malz (A) – Laura Medeiros Braga (I) – Sabine Meissner, ehem. Tesch – Przemyslaw Michalak (Slavo) – Deusdedit Monteiro-Menesez – Gustavo Miranda – Madlen Müller – Jörg Neßler – Viktoria Nikiforova – Wilhelm Nikonow – Stefan Norra – Cornelius Oertel – Jorge Luis de Oliveira Pinto Filho – Jörg Os-tendorf – Susanne Paskoff (C) – Maike Penz – Tobias Petermann – Christine Irene Pilz – Špela Preradović Hlede (I) – Joanna Pszonka – Yamna Ramdani – Martin Reiber (C) – Christoph Reuther – Lisa Richter – Erin Ritchie (I) – Carl Scherdel – Thomas Schlothauer – Daniel Schrader – Jonas Schulze (C) – Silke Sekora – Daniel Sepulveda – Anna Serova – Lidia Stokratskaya – Anke Tietz – Peter Tschernay – Stephanie Uhlig – Diego Vergara – Raphael de Vicq Ferreira da Costa – Xiaoli Wang – Marcus Wolf (C) – Kamal Zurba


Post festum 2016 and Outlook towards 2017 u 2016 was the UN International Year of Global Understanding. The year did not do justice to this initiative – at least not in respect to socio-political activity – independent on whether we look at Germany, Europe or the entire world. That certainly provided a fine opportunity for all of us to communicate our engagement for the understanding of global processes even stronger. For us, this meant communication at the science–policy interface. In that respect, 2016 can be seen as rather successful from our perspective.

On the 2017 calendar, there will be quite some things to reflect upon. The Protestant Refor-mation took place 500 years ago. At least from the position of geoecology, the 200th birthday of the American naturalist and philosopher Henry David Thoreau deserves mentioning. With his works “Walden” and “Faith in a seed”, he delivered substantial food for thought on the Human–Nature feedback system.

2017 will be the German–Mexican Year of Science. For this reason, Jörg Matschullat and Klaus Stanek jointly with their colleagues across Latin America are presently organizing the upcoming GOAL colloquium with workshop and excursion in and around Monterrey, Mexico (May 8–14). GOAL is the Latin American–German Alumni Network of Geoscientists. The event in Mexico is generously supported by DAAD.

Annex Publications in refereed journals and book contributions 2016 (n = 55) Abd El-Rahman Y, Seifert T, Gutzmer J, Said A, Hofmann M, Gärtner A, Linnemann U (2017) The

South Um Mongul Cu-Mo-Au prospect in the Eastern Desert of Egypt: From a mid-Cryogenian continental arc to Ediacaran post-collisional appinite-high Ba-Sr monzogranite. Ore Geol Rev 80: 250-266 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.oregeorev.2016.06.004)

Barakos G, Gutzmer J, Mischo H (2016) Strategic evaluations and mining process optimization to-wards a strong global REE supply chain. J Sustainable Mining 15: 26-35

Biedermann N, Speziale S, Winkler B, Reichmann HJ, Koch-Müller M, Heide G (2016) High-pressure phase behavior of SrCO3: an experimental and computational Raman scattering study. Phys Chem Min 43: 1-9. doi:10.1007/s00269-016-0861-2

Burisch M, Gerdes A, Walter BF, Neumann U, Fettel M, Markl G (2017) Methane and the origin of five-element veins: mineralogy, age, fluid inclusion chemistry and ore forming processes – a case study of the Odenwald, SW Germany. Ore Geol Rev 81, 1: 42-61

Burisch M, Marks MAW, Nowak M, Markl G (2016) The effect of temperature and cataclastic defor-mation on the composition of upper crustal fluids – An experimental approach. Chem Geol 433: 24-35

Burisch M Walter BF, Wälle M, Markl G (2016) Tracing fluid migration pathways in the root zone below unconformity-related hydrothermal veins: Insights from trace element systematics of individual fluid inclusions. Chem Geol 429: 44-50

Eckner R, Krüger L, Ullrich C, Rafaja D, Schlothauer T, Heide G (2016) Microstructure and mechani-cal properties after shock-wave loading of cast CrMnNi TRIP steel. Met Mat Trans A: Phys Met Mat Sci 47: 4922-4932. doi: 10.1007/s11661-016-3688-z

Finger F, Krenn E, Schulz B, Harlov DE, Schiller D (2016) Satellite monazites in polymetamorphic basement rocks of the Alps: their origin and petrological significance. Am Mineral 101: 1094-1103

Frenzel M, Hirsch T, Gutzmer J (2016) Gallium, germanium, indium, and other trace and minor ele-ments in sphalerite as a function of deposit type—A meta-analysis. Ore Geol Rev 76: 52-78

Frenzel M, Ketris PM, Seifert T, Gutzmer J (2016) On the current and future availability of gallium. Resources Policy 47: 38-50

Götze J, Möckel R, Vennemann T, Müller A (2016) Origin and geochemistry of agates from Permian volcanic rocks of the Sub-Erzgebirge basin (Saxony, Germany). Chem Geol 428: 77-91


González-Acebrón L, Pérez-Garrido C, Mas R, Arribas J, Götze J (2016) Provenance signatures rec-orded in transgressive sandstones of the Upper Cretaceous Iberian Seaway. J Sedimentary Res (in press)

Greb VG, Guhl A, Weigand H, Schulz B, Bertau M (2016) Understanding phosphorous phases in sewage sludge ashes: A wet-process investigation coupled with automated mineralogy analysis. Minerals Engineering 99: 30-39

Gros K, Słaby E, Förster H-J, Michalak PP, Munnik F, Götze J, Rhede D (2016) Visualization of trace-element zoning in apatite using BSE and CL imaging, and EPMA and µPIXE/µPIGE mapping. Mineral Petrol doi: 10.1007/s00710-016-0452-4

Gutzmer J, Klossek A, Schulz T (2016) EIT RawMaterials: Einführung in eine neue Wissens-und In-novationsgemeinschaft. In Kausch P, Matschullat J, Bertau M, Mischo H (eds) Rohstoffwirtschaft und gesellschaftliche Entwicklung. Springer Berlin Heidelberg: 159-163

Hänsel S, Monteiro Medeiros D, Matschullat J, Petta RA, de Mendonça Silva I (2016) Assessing ho-mogeneity and climate variability of temperature and precipitation series in the capitals of north-eastern Brazil. Frontiers March 2016, 4: 29: 21 p.; http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/feart.2016.00029

Heide G, Massanek A (2016) Eine mineralogische Weltreise: Die Sammlung der Pohl-Ströher-Mineralienstiftung im Schloss Freudenstein und im Krüger-Haus. In: Heß V, Rascher J, Zellmer H (Hrsg) Kultur.Wert.Stein. Verantwortung und Chancen für Geoparks. Schriftenr Dt Ges Geowiss 88: 45-50

Heide B, Paskoff S, Massanek A, Heide G (2016) 249 coloured plates of Meissen porcelain: A part of the Mineral Collections of Abraham Gottlob Werner. In: Wolfschmidt G (ed) Enhancing University Heritage-Based Research. Proceedings XV Universeum Network Meeting, Hamburg, 12.–14.06.2014. Nuncius Hamburgensis 33: 58-71

Heide G, Massanek A, Heide B (2016) Die Farbe Blau in der Kennzeichensammlung von Abraham Gottlob Werner – Eine Bestandsaufnahme blauer Minerale um 1800. In: Rommel G (Hrsg) Blüten-staub. Jahrbuch der Frühromantik, Bd. 3, Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg

Hoy A, Hänsel S, Skalak P, Ustrnul Z, Bochníček O (2016) The extreme European summer of 2015 in a long-term perspective. Int J Climatol. doi: 10.1002/joc.4751

Karykowski BT, Polito PA, Maier WD, Gutzmer J, Krause J (2016) New insights into the petrogenesis of the Jameson Range layered intrusion and associated Fe-Ti-P-V-PGE-Au mineralisation, West Musgrave Province, Western Australia – Mineralium Deposita doi:10.1007/s00126-016-0655-y

Kausch P, Matschullat J, Bertau M, Mischo H (Hrsg, 2016) Rohstoffwirtschaft und gesellschaftliche Entwicklung. Springer/Spektrum Verlag, ISBN 978-3-662-48854-6 Matschullat J (2016) Mittel- und langfristige Energie- und Rohstoff-Herausforderungen – die nächsten 50 Jahre. S. 209–223 In: Kausch P, Matschullat J, Bertau M, Mischo H (Hrsg, 2016) Rohstoffwirtschaft und gesellschaftliche Entwicklung. Springer/Spektrum Verlag, ISBN 978-3-662-48854-6

Kempe U, Graupner T, Seltmann R, de Boorder H, Dolgopolova A, van Emmichoven MZ (2016) The Muruntau gold deposit (Uzbekistan) – A unique ancient hydrothermal system in the southern Tien Shan. Geosci Frontiers 7: 495-528

Kogan I (2016) Acidorhynchus Stensiö, 1925 or Saurorhynchus Reis, 1892: how to call the Jurassic saurichthyid? N Jb Geol Paläontol – Abh 279, 1: 123-126, doi: 10.1127/njgpa/2016/0545

Kogan I, Romano C (2016) Redescription of Saurichthys madagascariensis Piveteau, 1945 (Actinop-terygii, Early Triassic), with implications for the early saurichthyid morphotype. J Vertebrate Pale-ontol 36, 4: e1151886, doi: 10.1080/02724634.2016.1151886.

Kuchařová A, Götze J, Šachlová S, Pertold Z, Přikryl R (2016) Microscopic and cathodoluminescence spectroscopic characterization of quartz exhibiting different alkali-silica reaction potential. Micros-copy Microanal 22: 189-198

Leißner T, Bachmann K, Gutzmer J, Peuker UA (2016) MLA-based partition curves for magnetic sep-aration. Minerals Engineering 94: 94-103

Machado dos Santos N, Araújo do Nascimento CW, Matschullat J, Alves de Olinda R (2016) Assess-ment of the spatial distribution of metal(oid)s in soils around an abandoned Pb-smelter plant. Envi-ron Manage DOI 10.1007/s00267-016-0796-x

Markl G, Burisch M, Neumann U (2016) Natural fracking and the genesis of five-element veins. Miner-alium Deposita 51, 6: 703-712


Matschullat J, Hänsel S, Schucknecht A, Lenk S, Fiedler B (2016) Ansatz einer Blitz- und Ge-witterklimatologie für Sachsen. In: Groß U (Hrsg) Glanzlichter der Forschung an der TU Berg-akademie Freiberg 250 Jahre nach ihrer Gründung: 50–59. Chemnitz Verlag

Matschullat J, Franck U, Zimmermann F, et al (2016) Air quality; Section 2.3 of "Global Environmental Outlook: GEO-6 Assessment for the Pan-Europe region", p. 70-87; Editor: United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP), United Nations Economic Commission for Eu-rope (UNECE); ISBN: 978-92-807-3545-1

Matysová P, Götze J, Leichmann J, Škoda R, Strnad L, Drahota P, Matys Grygar T (2015) Wakefieldite from silicified wood – REE, Y, V, As migration during diage-netic maturation. Eur J Mineralogy doi: 10.1127/ejm/2016/0028-2556

Minz FE, Bolin NJ, Lamberg P, Wanhainen C, Bachmann K, Gutzmer J (2016) Particle-based Sb distribution model for Cu–Pb flotation as part of geometallurgical modelling at the polymetallic Rockliden deposit, north-central Sweden. Mineral Processing and Extractive Metallurgy IMM Transactions section C 1743-2855

Miranda C, Santander P, Yánez J, Mansila HD, Matschullat J, Daus B (2016) Degradation of organo-arsenicals by heterogeneous photocatalysis using ZnO, TiO2 and UVA. J Adv Oxidation Technol 19, 2: 276-283

Morteani G, Eichinger F, Tarantola A, Müller A, Götze J, Sfragulla JA (2016) The synorogenic pegma-titic quartz veins of the Guacha Corral Shear zone (Sierra de Comechigones, Argentina): A textur-al, chemical, isotopic, cathodoluminescence and fluid inclusions study. Chem Erde 76: 391-404

Mustafa O, Tichomirowa M, Kummer NA, Merkel B (2016) Assessment of water-rock interaction pro-cesses in the Karst Springs of Makook Anticline (Kurdistan Region, Iraq) using Sr-isotopes, rare earth, and trace elements. Arab J Geosci 9: 368. DOI 10.1007/s12517-016-2344-7.

Neßler J, Seifert T, Gutzmer J, Müller A, Bachmann T, Henker J, Stute S, Kühn K, Hartsch J, Helbig M, Sennewald R, Herklotz G (2016) Die historische Sn-W-Li-Lagerstätte Zinnwald: neue Aspekte zum Rohstoffpotential des Osterzgebirges. In: Groß U (Hrsg) Glanzlichter der Forschung an der TU Bergakademie Freiberg – 250 Jahre nach ihrer Gründung, Freiberg, p. 391-406

Oertel C, Matschullat J, Zimmermann F, Zurba K, Erasmi S (2016) Greenhouse gas emissions from soils – a review. Chem Erde – Geochem 76, 3: 327-352; doi: 10.1016/j.chemer.2016.04.002

Regenspurg S, Feldbusch E, Norden B, Tichomirowa M (2016) Fluid-rock interactions in a geothermal Rotliegend/Permo-Carboniferous reservoir (North German Basin). Appl Geochem 69: 12-27

Romano C, Koot MB, Kogan I, Brayard A, Minikh AV, Brinkmann W, Bucher H, Kriwet J (2016) Permi-an-Triassic Osteichthyes (bony fishes): Diversity dynamics and body size evolution. Biol Rev 91: 106-147, doi: 10.1111/brv.12161 (published online 2014).

Ronkin Yu L, Tichomirowa M, Maslov AV (2016) The South Urals Large Igneous Province with an age of approximately 1380 ma: precision U-Pb-ID-TIMS constraints. Doklady Earth Sci 468: 587-592

Rudolph M, Heinig T, Bachmann K, Gutzmer J, Schubert H, Peuker UA (2016) A mineral liberation study of grain boundary fracture based on measurements of the surface exposure after milling. In-ternat J Mineral Processing 156: 3–13

Schlothauer T, Schimpf C, Schwarz MR, Heide G, Kroke E, 2016 The role of decompression and micro-jetting in shock wave synthesis experiments. J Phys 774: 2-25; doi:10.1088/1742-6596/774/1/012053

Schulz B (2016) Polymetamorphism in garnet micaschists of the Saualpe Eclogite Unit (Eastern Alps, Austria), resolved by automated SEM methods and EMP-Th-U-Pb monazite dating. J Metamorph Geol doi: 10.1111/jmg.12224

Schulz B, Merker G, Gutzmer J (2016) Automatisierte Liberationsanalyse (MLA) bei der Aufbereitung von Seltenerdelement-Erzen. In: Groß U (Ed) Glanzlichter der Forschung an der TU Bergakademie Freiberg 250 Jahre nach ihrer Gründung, pp. 36-46, Chemnitz Verlag, ISBN 978-3-944509-26-6

Steudel A, Kleeberg R, Bender Koch C, Friedrich F, Emmerich K (2016) Thermal behavior of chlorites of the clinochlore-chamosite solid solution series: Oxidation of structural iron, hydrogen release and dehydroxylation. Appl Clay Sci 132–133: 626–634. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.clay.2016.08.013


Stokratskaya L, Heide G, Heide B, Benkert T, Talowina I, Schaidurov W (2016) Lorenz von Pansner: Vom Schustersohn zum russischen kaiserlichen Staatsrat. In: Forscher- und Erfindergeist aus Arn-stadt: Erfunden – erforscht – gebaut. Sutton Geschichte, Erfurt, 32-40

Tietz A (2016) The historical geoscientific collection of the city Görlitz in Saxony - In the periphery of universities on the late 18th century and today. Nuncius Hamburgensis 33: 94–113

Ufer K, Kleeberg R (2015) Parametric Rietveld refinement of coexisting disordered clay minerals. Clay Minerals 55: 286-295. DOI: 10.1180/claymin.2015.050.3.03

Uhlig S, Möckel R, Pleßow A (2016) Quantitative analysis of sulphides and sulphates by WD-XRF: Capability and constraints. X-Ray Spectrometry 45, 3: 133-137

Viney M, Dietrich D, Mustoe G, Link P, Lampke T, Götze J, Rößler R (2016) An opalized tree from Gooding County, Idaho – re-examination of an 1895 discovery. Geosci 6: 21, doi:10.3390/geosciences6020021

Walter BF, Burisch M, Markl G (2016) Long-term chemical evolution and modification of continental basement brines – a field study from the Schwarzwald, SW Germany. Geofluids 16: 604-623

Will TM, Schulz B, Schmädicke E (2016) The timing of metamorphism in the Odenwald-Spessart basement, Mid-German Crystalline Zone. Int J Earth Sci (Geol Rdsch) DOI 10.1007/s00531-016-1375-3

Wolff R, Dunkl I, Kempe U, Stockli D, Wiedenbeck M, von Eynatten H (2016) Variable helium diffusion characteristics in fluorite. Geochim Cosmochim Acta 188: 21-34

Other publications 2016 (not necessarily refereed) n = 79 Andersson UB, Zack T, Aupers K, Blomgren H, Hogmalm J, Schulz B, Krause J (2016) Age of hydro-

thermal overprints in the Kiruna iron oxide-apatite ores as recorded in secondary monazites. Ab-stracts 35th International Geological Congress, 2016, Cape Town RSA.

Argyriou T, Friedman M, Romano C, Kogan I, Sánchez-Villagra MR (2016) Endocranial anatomy and interrelationships of the Permo-Triassic early actinopterygian Saurichthys with high resolution computer-assisted microtomography (MCT). J Vertebrate Paleontol Program and Abstracts, 89

Bauer M, Ostendorf J, Seifert T (2016) Rare-metal vein mineralizations in the historic Freiberg ore district (Germany), 2nd European Mineralogical Conference, Rimini, Italy, September 2016

Degler R, Novo TA, Schulz B, Queiroga GN (2015) P-T path reconstruction in Neoproterozoic garnet-bearing gneisses from a metasedimentary succession of the South Western Araçuai Orogen, Mi-nas Gerais, Brazil. Geonomos 23, 2: 29-38 (Instituto de Geociências, Universidade Federal de Mi-nas Gerais)

Dittrich T, Seifert T, Pfänder JA, Gerdes A, Schulz B, Hagemann S (2016) The 2650 Ma to 2600 Ma magmatic event and its economic importance for the Archean LCT pegmatite budget. 35th Internat Geol Congress, Cape Town, South Africa, August 27 to September 04, 2016, paper 2067

Dittrich T, Seifert T, Richter L, Hagemann S, Lüders V, Schulz B, Pfänder J, Gerdes A (2016) New Geochronological, Isotopic and Fluid Inclusion Study Constraints on the Development of the World-class Bikita LCT Pegmatite Deposit. Abstracts 35th International Geological Congress, 2016, Cape Town RSA. August 27 to September 04, 2016, paper 2059

Dittrich T, Seifert T, Schulz B (2016) Massive Pollucite ((Cs,Na)2Al2Si4O12 × H2O) – Processes of ex-treme cesium enrichment within LCT pegmatites. 35th Internat Geol Congress, Cape Town, South Africa, August 27 to September 04, 2016, paper 3953

Eberspächer S, Gaitzsch B, Galonska K, Heide B, Heide G, Kehrer C, Kogan I, Massanek A, Paskoff S, Volkmann N (2016) Digitalisierungsprojekte in den Geowissenschaftlichen Sammlungen der TU Bergakademie Freiberg. Poster DFG-Workshop "Erschließung und Digitalisierung forschungsrele-vanter Sammlungen wissenschaftlicher Objekte" in Bonn, 28.+29.01.2016

Eberspächer S, Lange J-M, Zaun J, Kehrer C, Heide G (2016) The historical collection of rock thin sections at the Technische Universität Bergakademie Freiberg, and evaluation of digitization meth-ods. In: Wolfschmidt G (ed) Enhancing University Heritage-Based Research. Proc XV Universeum Network Meeting, Hamburg, 12.–14.06.2014. Nuncius Hamburgensis 33: 44-57, Hamburg

Frenzel M, Hirsch T, Gutzmer J (2016) Introducing GGIMFis – A new sphalerite geothermometer? 1st Good Meeting on the Geology of Ore Deposits, Freiberg, March 15 to 17, 2016

Götze J (2016) Anwendung von Kathodolumineszenz (KL) Mikroskopie und Spektroskopie in den Geo-und Materialwissenschaften. In: Groß U (Hrsg) Glanzlichter der Forschung an der TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Chemnitzer Verlag: 27-33


Götze J, Möckel R, Zenz J (2016) Zur Mineralogie der Achate aus der Provinz Hebei, China. Mineral-ienwelt 2: 86-96.

Greb V, Fröhlich P, Weigand H, Schulz B, Bertau M (2016) Phosphatrecycling aus Klärschlam-maschen − warum Phosphorsäure der Königsweg ist. In: Kausch P, Matschullat J, Bertau M, Mis-cho H (Eds) Rohstoffwirtschaft und gesellschaftliche Entwicklung. Die nächsten 50 Jahre, S. 49-63, Springer Spektrum

Hänsel S, Hoy A (2016) Der extreme europäische Sommer 2015 aus säkularer Perspektive – Teil 2: Dürre. DACH2016: Deutsch-Österreichisch-Schweizerische Meteorologentagung 2016, Berlin, 14.-18.03.2016

Hänsel S, Hoy A (2016) Hydro-meteorologische Bedingungen während des Winterhalbjahrs in Europa aus säkularer Perspektive. DACH2016: Deutsch-Österreichisch-Schweizerische Meteorologenta-gung 2016, Berlin, 14.-18.03.2016

Hänsel S, Rumpf D, Matschullat J (2016) Bausteine eines regionalen Dürremonitorings. Ann Metorol 50: 30–36

Hänsel S, Rumpf D, Matschullat J (2016) Bewertung der Impaktrelevanz von Dürreindizes. DACH2016: Deutsch-Österreichisch-Schweizerische Meteorologentagung 2016, Berlin, 14.-18.03.2016

Hänsel S, Ustrnul Z, Łupikasza E, Skalak P, Matschullat J (2016) Analyse und Bewertung von Tro-ckenheit in Mittelosteuropa. DACH2016: Deutsch-Österreichisch-Schweizerische Meteorologenta-gung 2016, Berlin, 14.-18.03.2016

Heuer F, Repstock A, Schulz B, Fischer F, Breitkreuz Ch (2016) The Late Paleozoic crystal-poor vi-trophyric Planitz-ignimbrite of the Chemnitz Basin, eastern Germany: Indications for crustal con-tamination and magma mixing. Abstract of poster to Workshop Erzgebirge, 11.11.2016, Institute of Geology, TU Bergakademie Freiberg/Saxony

Hoang DH, Leißner T, Haser S, Rudolph M, Peuker U (2016) Using the mineral liberation analyzer for mineralogical studies of a carbonaceous apatite ore. Internat Conf Adv Mining and Tunnelling 2016

Hoy A, Hänsel S (2016) Der extreme europäische Sommer 2015 aus säkularer Perspektive – Teil 1: Hitze. DACH2016: Deutsch-Österreichisch-Schweizerische Meteorologentagung 2016, Berlin, 14.-18.03.2016

Hoy A, Hänsel S (2016) Europäische Winterkälte und atmosphärische Zirkulationsbedingungen im Spiegel vergangener Jahrhunderte. DACH2016: Deutsch-Österreichisch-Schweizerische Meteoro-logentagung 2016, Berlin, 14.-18.03.2016

Hoy A, Hänsel S (2016) European summer heat of 2015 in a long-term perspective and atmospheric circulation peculiarities. 16th EMS Annual Meeting & 11th European Conference on Applied Clima-tology (ECAC), 12–16 September 2016, Trieste, Italy

Járóka T, Seifert T (2016) Cassiterite of the hydrothermal Sn-polymetallic “Felsitzone” mineralization, Großschirma, Freiberg mining district, Saxony, Germany. Abstracts GAC-MAC 2016, 01.-03.06.2016, Whitehorse, Canada

Járóka T, Seifert T (2016) Mafic dike-hosted Ni-Cu-Co-(PGE) mineralization of the former mine « Bergsegen », Sohland/Rožany, Germany/Czech Republic. Abstracts 13th Ni-Cu-PGE Symposium, 05.09-09.09.2016, Perth, Australia

Járóka T, Seifert T (2016) Mineralogical characteristics of Ni-Cu-PGE-enriched mafic dikes of the Lu-satian Block (Germany/Czech Republic). 1st Good Meeting on the Geology of Ore Deposits, Freiberg, March 15 to 17, 2016

Járóka T, Seifert T (2016) Mineralogical characterization of Ni-Cu-PGE-bearing mafic dikes of the Lusatian Block (Germany/Czech Republic). 35th Internat Geol Congress, Cape Town, South Africa, August 27 to September 04, 2016, paper 3115

Karykowski BT, Polito PA, Maier WD, Gutzmer J (2016) Key characteristics of magnetitite-hosted PGE-Au-Cu reef-type mineralisation in the Jameson Range, Musgrave Province, Western Austral-ia. Durham, UK, 4th International HSE Geochemistry Workshop

Kayama M, Nakashima S, Tomioka N, Seto Y, Ohtani E, Fagan TJ, Nagaoka H, Ozawa S, Sekine T, Miyahara M, Miyake A, Fukuda J, Tomeoka K, Ichimura S, Matsumoto M, Suzuki K, Götze J (2016) Water-rich lunar upper mantle. Japan Geoscience Union (JpGU) and American Geophysi-cal Union Joint Meeting, 22.–26. Mai 2016, Chiba, Japan.

Kayama M, Tomioka N, Ohtani E, Nakashima S, Seto Y, Nagaoka H, Fagan TJ, Götze J, Miyake A, Ozawa S, Sekine T, Miyahara M, Matsumoto M, Shoda N, Tomeoka K (2016) New water reservoir on the Moon. Japan Geoscience Union (JpGU) and American Geophysical Union Joint Meeting, May 22.–26., 2016, Chiba, Japan


Kogan I (2016) Erdgeschichte im Schaufenster: 140 Jahre naturwissenschaftliches Museum in Chem-nitz. Veröff Museum Naturkunde Chemnitz 39: 5-32

Kogan I, Fischer J, Licht M, Reiss S, Popov E (2016) The Late Cretaceous fossil fishes of the Elbtal Group (Saxony, Germany). 87th Annual Conf Paläontol Ges e.V., Dresden, September 11–15, 2016, Programme, Abstracts, Field trip guides: 82-83

Kogan I, Pacholak S, Argyriou T, Romano C, Licht M (2016) Living torpedoes of the Triassic: design and function of Saurichthys, the first elaborate fast-start predator. 87th Annual Conf Paläontol Ges e.V., Dresden, September 11–15, 2016, Programme, Abstracts, Field trip guides: 83-84

Kogan I, Pacholak S, Licht M, Romano C (2016) Swift like an arrow: fast-start predation in actinop-terygian fishes evaluated by CFD. 3rd Young Natural History Scientists’ Meeting, 2.-6. February 2016, Paris, Abstract book: 29-30

Le Bras L, Renno A, Haser S, Ziegenrücker R, Atanasova P, Gutzmer, J (2016) Monazite characteri-zation in a carbonatite weathering profile – a new tool for landscape geochronology. Poster IGC Cape Town

Leißner T, Duong HH, Rudolph M, Heinig T, Bachmann K, Gutzmer J, Schubert H, Peuker UA (2016) Investigation of mineral liberation by transgranular and intergranular fracture after milling. IMPC 2016: XXVIII Internat Mineral Processing Congress Proc ISBN: 978-1-926872-29-2, Québec, Can-ada

Massanek A (2016) Prof. Dr. Georg Unland – Sammler und Förderer der Geowissenschaftlichen Sammlungen in Freiberg. In: Themenkatalog “Die verborgenen Schätze der Museen”, Munichshow 2016, Wachholtz-Verlag Kiel/Hamburg, S. 21-23

Massanek A (2016) Weltweit einzigartig – drei mineralogische Ausstellungen von Weltrang in einer Stadt. In: Themenkatalog “Die verborgenen Schätze der Museen”, Munichshow 2016, Wachholtz-Verlag Kiel/Hamburg, S. 20

Massanek A, Heide G (2016) A national mineralogical collection at Krügerhaus in Freiberg/Saxony. Mineral Observer 21, 1: 32-43

Massanek A, Heide G (2016) Nazionalnaja kollekzia mineralov vo Freibergskoi Gornoi Akademii. Min-eralogičeskii Almanach 21, 1: 32-43

Matschullat J (2016) Soil and ecosystem respiration in the humid tropics. German-Brazilian Research Cooperation. Gaia 25, 3: 148

Matschullat J (2016) Geoökologie – quo vadis? Forum der Geoökologie 27, 3: 14-15 Matschullat J (2016) Interview zum Studiengang Geoökologie. Forum der Geoökologie 27, 3: 39-40 Matschullat J (2016) Wie sehr müssen wir differenzieren? – 10. Annaberger Klimatage 2016. DMG

Mitteilungen 02: 32–33 Matschullat J (2016) Buchbesprechung: BGR (Hrsg; 2016) Bodenatlas Deutschland. Böden in the-

matischen Karten. Geogr Rundsch 10: 56–57 Matschullat J, Hänsel S (2016) Mensch, Klimaschutz und Klimaanpassung. Neues nach der COP 21

in Paris? Forum der Geoökologie 27, 2: 16–19 Matschullat J, von Fromm S, Monteiro Bezerra Lima R (2016) Bodenatmung (CO2, CH4, N2O), Land-

nutzung und Klima, Beispiel Amazonasbecken. In: Sitzungsberichte der Leibniz-Sozietät Medeiros Júnior EB, Jordt-Evangelista H, Queiroga GN, Schulz B, Marques RA (2016) Electron mi-

croprobe Th-U-Pb monazite dating and metamorphic evolution of the Acaiaca Granulite Complex, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Revista Escola des Minas, Ouro Preto, 69, 1: 21-32 http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/0370-44672015690139

Meißner S, Hänsel S, Dunger V, Matschullat J (2016) Quantifizierung klimatisch bedingter Verände-rungen der Grundwasserneubildung eines urbanen Gebietes. 25. Tagung der Fachsektion Hydro-geologie in der DGGV, Karlsruhe, Germany, 13.–17. April 2016

Meißner S, Hänsel S, Dunger V, Matschullat J (2016) Einfluss nicht klimatischer Eingangsdaten auf die Modellierung der zukünftigen Grundwasserneubildung eines urbanen Gebietes. 25. Tagung der Fachsektion Hydrogeologie in der DGGV, Karlsruhe, Germany, 13.–17. April 2016

Merker G, Leissner T, Schulz B (2016) Use of virtual fractions for MLA of Y-bearing REE ores. 28th Internat Mineral Processing Congress 2016 in Quebec, Conference Proceedings Paper ID 894

Minarova J, Hoy A, Hänsel S, Müller M, Clappier A (2016) Extreme Niederschläge im Erzgebirge und synoptische Bedingungen. DACH2016: Deutsch-Österreichisch-Schweizerische Meteorologenta-gung 2016, Berlin, 14.-18.03.2016


Minde MW, Zimmermann U, Madland MV, Korsnes RI, Schulz B, Audinot JN (2016) Fluid-flow during EOR experiments in chalk: insights using SEM-MLA, EMPA and nanoSIMS applications. Abstracts International Symposium of the Society of Core Analysts

Monfaredi B, Hauzenberger C, Neubauer F, Schulz B, Genser J, Shakerardakani F, Halama R (2016) Reconstruction of the metamorphic evolution in the Hamadan high-grade metapelites, Sanandaj–Sirjan Zone, western Iran. Geophysical Research Abstracts 18, EGU2016-13377-2.

Neßler J, Seifert T, Gutzmer J (2016) New drilling results of disseminated Sn-W mineralisation at the Zinnwald/Cínovec deposit, eastern Erzgebirge, Germany, Mineral Deposits Studies Group, 39th Winter Meeting, 4.-7. January 2016, University College Dublin, Irland, p. 69

Neßler J, Seifert T, Gutzmer J (2016) New drilling results of disseminated Sn-W Mineralisation at the Zinnwald/Cínovec deposit, eastern Erzgebirge, Germany. 1st Good Meeting on the Geology of Ore Deposits, Freiberg, March 15 to 17, 2016

Neßler J, Seifert T, Gutzmer J (2016) New insights on a historical mine with new potential: the Sn-W-Li Zinnwald/Cínovec deposit, eastern Erzgebirge, Germany. 35th Internat Geol Congress, Cape Town, South Africa, August 27 to September 04, 2016, paper 2016

Novo TA, Pedrosa-Soares AC, Degler R, Schulz B (2015) Termobarometria de metapelitos granadíferos do Grupo Rio Doce, Orógeno Araçuai. Geonomos 23, : 18-25 (Instituto de Geociên-cias, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais).

Ottens B, Götze J (2016) Achatwelt China. Christian Weise Verlag, München, 110 S. Petermann T, Seifert T (2016) A new occurrence of cassiterite as “wood tin” in Saxony, Germany. 35th

Internat Geol Congress, Cape Town, South Africa, August 27 to September 04, paper PB 105 Petermann T, Seifert T (2016) Microcrystalline cassiterite ("wood tin") in central Saxony, Germany. 1st

Good Meeting on the Geology of Ore Deposits, Freiberg, March 15 to 17, 2016 Pleßow A, Oettel P, Höftmann M (2016) TU Bergakademie Freiberg an der Talsperre Saidenbach –

Teil 1. Fischer & Angler in Sachsen. Zeitschrift Landesverband Sächs Angler e.V. 23, 2: 91–93 Pleßow A, Oettel P, Höftmann M (2016) TU Bergakademie Freiberg an der Talsperre Saidenbach –

Teil 2. Fischer & Angler in Sachsen. Zeitschrift Landesverband Sächs Angler e. V. 23, 3: 145–147 Queiroga GN, Schulz B, de Souza Martins M, de Castro MP, Pedrosa-Soares AC, Jordt-Evangelista

H, da Silva AL (2016) Thermobarometry and electron-microprobe Th-U-Pb monazite dating in gar-net metapelites from the Capelinha Formation, Araçuaí Orogen, Brazil. Revista Escola des Minas, Ouro Preto, 69, 1: 33-43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/0370-44672015690066

Repstock A, Heuer F, Haser S, Schulz B, Lapp M, Breitkreuz C (2016) The Wurzen caldera system of northern Saxony, Germany: Minerals disclose the insight of an Early Permian magma reservoir. Abstract for Erzgebirge meeting (VENTS meeting FG) November 2016

Reuther C, Hengst M, Möckel R, Götze J, Heide G (2016) Synthesis, growth and structural aspects of RCa4O(BO3)3 (R=La, Sm, Gd, Y). 24th Annual Meeting of the German Crystallographic Society (DGK), 14.–17. March 2016, Stuttgart.

Richter L, Seifert T (2016) New mineralogical and fluid inclusion data from Sb-mineralization in the Sb-Ag mining district Schleiz, eastern Thuringia, Germany. 35th Internat Geol Congress, Cape Town, South Africa, August 27 to September 04, 2016, paper 3948

Richter N, Petermann T, Seifert T, Bauer M, Barth A, Kallmeier E (2016) Mineralization styles related to a hidden late-Variscan granite intrusion: the district of Oelsnitz (Vogtland Synclinorium, Germa-ny). 35th Internat Geol Congress, Cape Town, South Africa, August 27 to September 04, 2016, pa-per 2023

Rumpf D, Hänsel S, Matschullat J (2016) Flächenhafte Trockenheitsanalyse für Sachsen. 10. An-naberger Klimatage, Mai 2016, Annaberg-Buchholz

Schach R, Oertel C, Koch K, Matschullat J (2016) Winter CO2 emissions from agricultural sites (Saxo-ny, Germany). St. Petersburg Abstract

Schulz B (2016) Automated SEM-EDS methods in support of EMP-monazite dating and P-T path re-construction in the polymetamorphic garnet micaschists of the Austroalpine Saualpe Eclogite Unit. Abstract Volume of GeoTirol2016 - Annual Meeting of DGGV and PANGEO Austria, 25-28. Sep-tember 2016, Innsbruck, 310

Seibel H, Járóka T, Seifert T (2016) Mineralogical and petrographical characterization of Ni-Cu-(PGE)-enriched gabbroic dikes from the Hohwald (Lusatian Block, Bohemian Massif, Germany). Abstracts 13th Ni-Cu-PGE Symposium, 05.09-09.09.2016, Perth, Australia


Seifert T (2016) Metallogeny and economic potential of Mo mineralization in the Erzgebirge-Krušné hory (Saxony/Bohemia), central Europe. 35th Internat Geol Congress, Cape Town, South Africa, August 27 to September 04, 2016, paper 3945

Seifert T (2016) Metallogeny of the Sn-polymetallic / Ag ore fields Pobershau and Rittersberg (Mari-enberg district), central Erzgebirge, Germany. 35th Internat Geol Congress, Cape Town, South Af-rica, August 27 to September 04, 2016, paper 4975

Seifert T (2016) Pre- and late-Variscan pneumatolytic and hydrothermal Sn mineralization stages of the Erzgebirge-Krušné hory-Vogtland-Slavkovský les metallogenic province (DE, CZ). Abstracts GAC-MAC 2016, 01.-03.06.2016, Whitehorse, Canada

Seifert T, Pavlova GG (2016) New 40Ar/39Ar ages of Sn- and W-polymetallic mineralization in the Erz-gebirge / Krušné hory (DE, CZ). Goldschmidt Conference, 26 June - 1 July 2016 in Yokohama, Ja-pan, Goldschmidt Conference Abstracts, p. 2795

Tichomirowa M, Hofmann M, Schaltegger U, Sergeev S, von Quadt A, Whitehouse M (2016) The “Older” and “Younger” granites from the Western Erzgebirge – comparison of different zircon da-ting methods. Freiberg Online Geoscience 46: 36-38

Tietz A (2016) Broad interdisciplinary linking of collections – only a dream? Book of abstracts, S. 73 Zaimis St, Gutzmer J, Voudouris P, Melfos V (2016) Indium, germanium and gallium enrichments in

the carbonate-replacement Pb-Zn-Ag ore deposit at Kamariza, Lavrion (SE Attica, Greece). 1st Good Meeting on the Geology of Ore Deposits Freiberg, March 15 to 17, 2016

Exhibits of our Collections 2016 01.01.–04.04. Collaboration Special exhibit “Haie & Rochen – Faszination seit Jahrmillionen”,

Geoskop Thallichtenberg 01.01.–31.12. Collaboration Special exhibit “Secret Lights – das Geheimnis leuchtender Steine”,

Amethystwelt Maissau in Österreich 13.03. Collaboration Special exhibit “Granat” auf der Mineralienbörse Marktleuthen 08.04. Collaboration Special exhibit “Minerale von Ronneburg”, Naturkundemuseum Gera

(bis 29.01.2017 15.04. Collaboration Special exhibit Kurgesellschaft Bad Gottleuba-Berggießhübel

(bis 15.04.2019) 25.04.–04.11. Collaboration Special exhibit, Rheinisches Landesmuseum Trier 21.05. Collaboration Special exhibit “Turmalin”, Mineralienbörse Freiberg 09.06.–25.09. Collaboration Special exhibit von Dr. Paul Rustemeyer “Kristallmagie – Verborgener

Zauber dunkler Turmaline”, terra mineralia 11.06.–16.10. Collaboration Special exhibit “Haie – Räuber seit Jahrmillionen”, Museum für Natur-

kunde Chemnitz 28.–30.10. Organisation Special exhibits “Neues vom Krügerhaus” und “225. Geburtstag

Friedrich August Breithaupt” Collaboration Special exhibit “Verborgene Schätze der Museen”, alle Mineralientage

München 12.11. Collaboration Special exhibit “erfunden.erforscht.gebaut”, Schlossmuseum Arnstadt ab 24.11. Collaboration Special exhibit “Haie – Räuber seit Jahrmillionen”, Museum für Natur-

kunde Magdeburg 02.–04.12. Collaboration Special exhibit “Die Anden zu Gast in Hamburg”

Organisation Special exhibits “Edelstein des Jahres 2016 – Rubin”, “Vulkane und Vulkanismus” sowie “Neues vom Krügerhaus”, alle Mineralienmesse Hamburg


Research projects and contracts 2016 WG General and Applied Mineralogy

1. „Struktur-Eigenschaftskorrelationen und strukturelle Instabilitäten in Hochtemperaturpiezoel-ektrika der Oxoborat-Familie RX2Z2O(BO3)3 (X, Z = Ca, R = La, Y, Gd, Pr, Nd, Er)“. DFG-Projekt im Rahmen eines Paketantrages gemeinsam mit dem Institut für Experimentelle Physik der TU Freiberg und dem Institut für Geologie, Mineralogie und Geophysik, AG Kristallphysik der Ruhr-Uni Bochum (Laufzeit 3 Jahre) – Jens Götze

2. Der versteinerte Wald von Chemnitz – mineralogische und geochemische Untersuchungen zur autohydrothermalen Genese von Granat (SAB, Laufzeit 2015–2018) – Gerhard Heide

3. Rohstoffe für Umwelttechnologien: Mineralogisch-geologische Untersuchung von Platin- und Nickel-reichen Mineralisationen im Ural und Entwicklung von alternativen, umweltschonenden Gewinnungstechnologien (BMBF, Laufzeit 2014–2017) – Gerhard Heide

4. Freiberger Biohydrometallurgisches Zentrum für strategische Elemente, TP4 Laugungskinetik synthetischer und natürlicher Blei-Zink-Erze und Erzminerale (Dr.-Erich-Krüger-Stiftung, Laufzeit bis Dezember 2017) – Gerhard Heide

5. Laugung und Verwitterung chilenischer Kupferschlacke unter verschiedenen lagerungs- und klimatischen Bedingungen (DAAD, Laufzeit bis 2016) – Gerhard Heide

6. CLIENT – SecMinStratEl: Secondary Mining – Gewinnung strategischer Elemente aus Bergbaualtablagerungen (z.B. Tailings) ausgewählter chilenischer Standorte, verknüpft mit einer anschließenden umweltschonender Verwahrung der Restmaterialien, TP1 (BMBF/BMFT, Laufzeit bis 30.09.2016) – Gerhard Heide

7. INACAP-Weiterbildungskurs „Minenschließung und Rekultivierungsmaßnahmen“ (MIBRAG Consulting International GmbH, Laufzeit 2016) – Gerhard Heide

8. Entwicklung eines innovativen Verfahrens zur energieeffizienten Behandlung von kon-taminierten Abwasserfraktionen“ (SAB, Laufzeit bis 2018) – Gerhard Heide

WG Geochemistry and Geoecology 9. SMSB – Winnung strategic metals and minerals from Saxon mining heaps (BMBF, until 2016) –

Jörg Matschullat, Dr. Alexander Pleßow 10. Freiberg Biohydrometallurgical Centre for Strategical Elements (BHMZ), SP5 Geochemical

trace analysis of complex samples (Dr.-Erich-Krüger-Foundation, until December 2017) – Jörg Matschullat, Dr. Alexander Pleßow mit Christine Pilz and Stephanie Uhlig

11. GREGASO, Phase II: Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Soils. Experimental project until 2017 – Jörg Matschullat with Cornelius Oertel and Kamal Zurba and various students

12. EcoRespira-Amazon (NoPa II). Soil respiration and pedogeochemistry in the Amazon basin, comparison between forest and post-forest areas (Financed through BMZ, GIZ, DAAD and CAPES; until late 2017) – Jörg Matschullat

13. Areal analysis of selected drought indices and development of a concept for an improved evalu-ation and characterisation of drought in climate change adapatation for Saxony (TroKon). Octo-ber 2015 to April 2017. Dr. Stephanie Hänsel with Jörg Matschullat and partner LfULG

14. Tritium monitoring with VKTA – Strahlenschutz, Analytik & Entsorgung Rossendorf e.V. (since late 2015, open end)

WG Economic Geology and Petrology 15. SAXMON: Th-U-Pb-Altersmuster metamorpher Monazite in den variskischen Hochdruck-

Einheiten der Saxothuringischen Zone (Sachsen, NE-Bayern). Deutsche Forschungsgemein-schaft, Sachbeihilfe Normalverfahren, SCHU 676/20-1, B. Schulz (TUBAF) and J. Krause (HIF).

16. DESMEX – Deep electromagnetic sounding for mineral exploration. r4-Verbundprojekt, BMBF, Supervisor: T Seifert, PhD Studenten: Lisa Richter (bis 06-2016), Patrick Krolop (ab 08-2016)

17. WISTAMERZ – Prognose wirtschaftsstrategischer Hochtechnologiemetalle am Beispiel des Erzgebirges. r4-Verbundprojekt, BMBF, Supervisor: T Seifert, J Gutzmer, PhD Student: Tobias Petermann

18. ResErVar – Ressourcenpotential hydrothermaler Lagerstätten der Varisziden. r4-Verbundprojekt, BMBF, Supervisor: T Seifert, J Gutzmer, PhD Student: Tilman Jeske


19. Geology and metallogeny of indium and germanium deposits in the Erzgebirge and areas for comparison worldwide – Teilprojekt im 2. Krüger-Forschungskolleg BHMZ, dem Freiberger Bio-hydrometallurgischen Zentrum für strategische Elemente. Projektleiter: T Seifert; PhD Student: Matthias E. Bauer

Completed qualification work 2016 PhD theses (n = 5) Max Frenzel (2016) The distribution of gallium, germanium and indium in conventional and non-

conventional resources - Implications for global availability. PhD 25.10.2016 (Supervision and ref-erees: Jens Gutzmer, Bernd Lehmann, Universität Clausthal, Thomas Seifert)

Christin Kehrer (2016) Geometallurgical assessment of the Kupferschiefer-type base metal deposit Spremberg-Graustein, Lusatia, Germany. PhD 25.01.2016 (Betreuer: Jens Gutzmer)

Thomas Schlothauer (2016) Aufbau des Schockwellenlabors im Lehr- und Forschungsbergwerk "Reiche Zeche" der TU Bergakademie Freiberg und die Entwicklung von dynamischen Höch-stdrucksynthesemethoden. PhD 30.11.2016 (Supervision: Gerhard Heide)

Lidia Stokratskaya (2016) Lorenz von Pansner (1777–1851): Sein Wirken als Mineraloge in Russland im Zeitraum von 1800 bis 1836, seine wissenschaftlichen Arbeiten und seine Briefkorresponden-zen. PhD 29.11.2016 (Supervision: Gerhard Heide)

Kamal Zurba (2016) Is short rotation forestry biomass sustainable? PhD 30.10.2015 (Supervision and Referees: Jörg Matschullat, Klaus Butterbach-Bahl)

Master theses (n = 21) Martin Baldauf und Susanne Paskoff (2016) Mineralogische Untersuchungen an Meissner Por-

zellantafeln mit Farbaufstrich aus der Kennzeichensammlung von A.G. Werner aus dem 19. Jahrhundert“ (Supervision: Prof. Gerhard Heide, Prof. Chr. Herm)

Stefanie Böhme (2016) Mineralogische und geochemische Charakterisierung der Schwermineralfrak-tionen verschiedener Aufbereitungsrückstände von chilenischen Kupfer- und Blei-Zink-Lagerstätten (Supervision: Prof. Gerhard Heide, Dr. Frank Haubrich)

Manuel Feig (2016) Bestimmung variabler EPR-Spektrenparameter einschließlich der Spinn-Hamilton-Parameter für das Gd3+-Zentrum in natürlichen Zirkonen (Supervision: Dr. Ulf Kempe, Prof. A. Pöppl)

Fabian Fröhlich (2016) Sulfide vein mineralization of the shallow eastern stockwork zone and its ge-netic relation to the massive sulfide mineralization at the Sakatti Cu-Ni-PGE deposits, Finland (Su-pervision: Jens Gutzmer, Janne Siikaluoma, Anglo American Exploration)

Anne Hänig (2016) Quantifizierung der Nahrungsaufnahme (functional response) von Dikerogam-marus villosus (Crustacea, Amphipoda) in Abhängigkeit von der Individuendichte. M.Sc. Mai 16 (Supervision Dr. Susanne Worischka, TUD; Jörg Matschullat)

Tamino Hirsch (2016) Phasenbeziehungen im System NdLuO3–NdScO3 (Supervision Jens Götze) Daniel Hirt (2016) Mineralogy and mineral chemistry of minerals of the nepheline group from the Kiya

Shaltyr intrusive complex (Siberia, Russian Federation) – Supervision Jens Götze Miriam Hoppe (2016) Geochemical and sedimentological investigations of sediments and ferroman-

ganese nodules from the equatorial East Pacific. (Supervision: Jens Gutzmer, Thomas Kuhn, BGR Hannover)

Kästner J (2016) Detailed investigations of skarn lithologies and tin mineralization of the Hämmerlein seam (+590 m level) in the Pöhla-Tellerhäuser ore district (Erzgebirge, Germany), Masterarbeit. (Supervision: Thomas Seifert, Matthias Bauer, Marco Roscher (Saxore GmbH)

Lennart Kieschnik (2016) Beitrag zur Blitzklimatologie Sachsens – Analyse von meteorologischen Parametern und Gewitteraktivität im Zeitraum 1999–2012. M.Sc. Jul 16 (Supervision Stephanie Hänsel, Jörg Matschullat)

Patrick Krolop (2016) Petrological, mineralogical and geochemical characterization of the Dales Gorge banded iron formation, Mt Wall, Western Australia (Supervision: Jens Gutzmer, Tobias Höfig)

Friderike Kutz (2016) Laboratory experiments assessing potential CO2-water-rock interactions at a CO2 injection site near Brooks, Canada. M.Sc. Feb. 16 (Supervision Prof. Bernhard Mayer, Calga-ry, Jörg Matschullat)


Susanne Paskoff und Martin Baldauf (2016) Mineralogische Untersuchungen an Meissner Por-zellantafeln mit Farbaufstrich aus der Kennzeichensammlung von A.G. Werner aus dem 19. Jahrhundert“ (Supervision: Prof. Gerhard Heide, Prof. Chr. Herm)

Richter N (2016) Indium-bearing sulfides and associated minerals from the polymetallic skarn deposit Pöhla-Hämmerlein, Western Erzgebirge, Germany, Masterarbeit. (Supervision: Thomas Seifert, Matthias Bauer, Marco Roscher (Saxore GmbH)

Stefan Richter (2016) Röntgendiffraktometrische Untersuchungen an überprägten Kalifeldspäten unter besonderer Berücksichtigung von Zr-Nb-REE-Y-Vererzungen (Supervision: Dr. Ulf Kempe, Dr. R. Möckel)

Marcel Rülke (2016) Die Nitratbelastung im Sicker- und Grundwasser von Trinkwasserfassungen im Bereich landwirtschaftlicher Nutzflächen im Einzugsgebiet Schleinitz. M.Sc. Jan. 16 (Supervision Heiko Ihling, LfULG; Jörg Matschullat)

Henning Scheibert (2016) The mineralization in calc-silicates near “The Crown Mine”, Botallack Head, Cornwall, UK. (Betreuung Jens Gutzmer, Gregor Markl, Universität Tübingen)

Wiebke Seher (2016) Biogeochemie der hyporheischen Zone eines urbanen Tieflandflusses in Ab-hängigkeit der Strömungsverhältnisse im Sediment. M.Sc. Jul 16. (Betreuung Jörg Lewandowski, IGB; Jörg Matschullat)

Nadja Seiler (2016) Verminderung von Schadstoffeinträgen in die Freiberger Mulde: Maßnahmenab-schätzung am Roten Graben. M.Sc. Jul 16. (Supervision: Huseyin Ibrahim, Heinrich Consult; Jörg Matschullat)

Felix Träger (2016) Geologisches 3D-Modell ausgewählter Horizonte des Ostfeldes Zielitz unter Berücksichtigung sicherheitsrelevanter Aspekte (Gas- und Salzlösungsvorkommen) für den Kalibergbau. (Supervision: Thomas Seifert, Ines Görz, Joachim Plümacher, K+S Kassel, Anja Dabrowski)

Florian Will (2016) Relations of Neoarchean LCT pegmatites to potential source granites, and amphi-bole geothermobarometry in the hosting greenstone sequences (Yilgarn and Pilbara Cratons, Western Australia). Master Thesis, Geowissenschaften TU Freiberg, 121 S. (Supervision: Bern-hard Schulz, Thomas Seifert, Thomas Dittrich)

Bachelor theses (n = 24) Stefanie Brüser (2016) Konsistenz von Starkniederschlags- und Trockenheitstrends zwischen den

Beobachtungsdaten (1931–2010) und den Klimaprojektionsdaten des ENSEMBLES-Projektes (1961–2100). B.Sc. Feb. 16 (Supervision: Stephanie Hänsel, Jörg Matschullat)

Christian Dietzel (12/2015) Mineralogisch-petrographische Charakterisierung von gabbroiden Gang-gesteinen aus dem Gebiet Beiersdorf – Ebersbach – Neusalza-Spremberg, Oberlausitz, Sachsen (Supervision: Thomas Seifert, Bernhard Schulz, Tom Járóka)

Beatrice Emmert (2016) Petrographie der Frankenberger Einheit im Zwischengebirge von Franken-berg/Sachsen. B.Sc. Geowissenschaften TU Freiberg, 84 p. (Supervision: Bernhard Schulz, Oliver Frei)

Jessica Gärtner (2016) Mineralogische Untersuchungen zur Klärung der Genese von Chalcedon-Pseudostalaktiten von Jalgaon, Dekkan Trapp (Indien) – Supervision: Jens Götze

David Göttlich (2016) Fe-Verbindungen in Achaten: Genese, Mineralogie und Morphologie (Supervi-sion: Jens Götze, Dr. Robert Möckel)

Matthias Franz Hagen (2016) Mineralogical examination of selected historical, synthetic crystals (Su-pervision: Prof. Gerhard Heide, Dipl.-Min. Andreas Massanek)

Jenny Heise (2016) Arbeitsvorschrift zum Gebrauch der Sprühtrocknungsmethode zur Herstellung von texturfreien Pulverpräparaten für die quantitative Röntgendiffraktometrie (Supervision: Dr. Reinhard Kleeberg, M.Sc. R. Luhmer)

Anna-Lena Horle (2016) Röntgenfluoreszenzanalitische Untersuchungen der St. Philippos-, Achla Tarla- und King Arthur-Lagerstätten, Thrakien, Nordost-Griechenland (Supervision: Thomas Sei-fert, Panagiotis Voundouris /Universität Athen)

Antonia Korda (2016) Untersuchungen zur chemischen und biotischen Laugung an Erzanschliffen der kb-Formation, Wilhelm Stehender Nord, Freiberg (Supervision: Prof. Gerhard Heide, Dipl.-Geoök. J. Heinrich)

Pia Krenz (2016) Qualitative und quantitative Analysen der Mineralisation der St. Philippos-, Achla Tarla- und King Arthur-Lagerstätten, Thrakien, Nordost-Griechenland (Supervision: Thomas Sei-fert, Panagiotis Voundouris /Universität Athen)


Marcel Laabs (2016) Mineralogische Untersuchungen von amorphem SiO2 am Beispiel von Glasschwämmen (Porifera: Hexactinellida) - (Supervision: Prof. Gerhard Heide und Prof. Hermann Ehrlich)

Jonathan List (2016) Geochemische Analysen von Feinstaubproben aus der Freiberger Innenstadt. B.Sc. Apr. 16 (Supervision: Frank Zimmermann, Alexander Pleßow, Jörg Matschullat)

René Schach (2016) THG-Bodenentgasung im Winter. B.Sc. Jan. 16 (Supervision: Cornelius Oertel, Jörg Matschullat)

Patrick Schielinski (2016) Abrasion of tektites and selected crystalline and glassy materials (Supervi-sion: Prof. Gerhard Heide, Dr. J.-M. Lange)

Henning Seibel (2016) „Mineralogisch-petrographische Charakterisierung von gabbroiden Gang-gesteinen aus dem Hohwald-Gebiet, Oberlausitz, Sachsen“ (Supervision: Thomas Seifert, Bern-hard Schulz, Tom Járóka)

Jonathan Sittner (2016) Kathodolumineszenz-Untersuchungen an Quarz in einem Metamorphoseprofil im Kaoko belt, Namibia (Supervision: Prof. Jens Götze, Dr. Ulf Kempe)

Lisa Thiele (2016) Petrographie der Gneise des Seidewitztals im Osterzgebirge. B.Sc. Geowissen-schaften TU Freiberg, 59 p. (Supervision: Bernhard Schulz, Oliver Frei)

Sebastian Thormeier (2016) Petrographie der Gneise westlich von Zöblitz (Mittleres Erzgebirge). Bachelor Thesis, Geowissenschaften TU Freiberg, 58 p. (Supervision: Bernhard Schulz, Oliver Frei)

Sinah Toschka (2016) Petrographie des Eklogits südöstlich von Eppendorf im Mittelerzgebirge. Bach-elor Thesis, Geowissenschaften TU Freiberg, 44 p. (Supervision: Bernhard Schulz, Oliver Frei)

Melanie Vierling (2016) CNS in europäischen Agrarböden – ein Beitrag zum GEMAS Projekt. B.Sc. Feb. 16 (Supervision: Alexander Pleßow, Jörg Matschullat)

Sophie von Fromm (2016) Bodenentgasung und -chemie im Amazonasbecken. B.Sc. Jul 16 (Supervi-sion: Frank Zimmermann, Jörg Matschullat)

Anja Weber (2016) Mikroskopische Untersuchungen der Mineralisation der St. Philippos-, Achla Tarla- und King Arthur-Lagerstätten, Thrakien, Nordost-Griechenland (Supervision: Thomas Seifert, Panagiotis Voundouris /Universität Athen)

Marcus Wolf (2016) Mineralogisch-petrographische Untersuchungen zur Herkunft von Bau-sandsteinen an der Ruine des Heilig-Kreuz-Klosters Meißen aus dem 13. Jahrhundert (Supervi-sion: Jens Götze, Prof. H. Siedel)

Internships and school student training (n = 6) Erin Ritchie (Sep. 2015–Mär. 2016) Winter soil GHG emissions. Alberta Saxony exchange stipend,

work with Laura and Spela (Supervision: Jörg Matschullat, Frank Zimmermann) Laura Medeiros Braga (Okt. 2015–Feb. 2016) Winter soil GHG emissions. Science without borders

stipend, work with Erin and Spela (Supervision: Jörg Matschullat, Frank Zimmermann) Špela Preradović Hlede (Okt. 2015–Feb. 2016) Winter soil GHG emissions. ERASMUS stipend, work

with Erin and Laura (Supervision: Jörg Matschullat, Frank Zimmermann) Ulrike Schwerdtner (Feb.–Mär. 2016) Winter soil GHG emissions. Bayreuth university student intern-

ship (Supervision: Jörg Matschullat, Frank Zimmermann) Klaudia Uścisławska (Dez. 2015–Mär. 2016) Winter soil GHG emissions. Polish student internship

(Supervision: Jörg Matschullat, Frank Zimmermann) Tom Neubert Besondere Lernleistung (BELL), Thema: "Schwarzschiefer und seine organischen

Bestandteile" Johannes-Kepler-Gymnasium Chemnitz

Event organisation 2016 All year Arktis und Polargebiete. Ringvorlesung und IÖZ-Forum im Studium Generale. Alexander

Pleßow mit Norman Pohl 10.–12.05. 10. Annaberg Climate Days. How much do we need to differentiate? Speakers Hartmut

Graßl, Paul Becker, Irene Fischer-Bruns, Valeri Goldberg, Gerd Franz, Christian Schönwiese, Stephanie Hänsel, Johannes Franke, Tanja Winterrath, Rico Kronenberg, Irena Otop, Annemarie Lexer, Uwe Müller, Ellen Müller, Heike Hübener, Christian Korn-dörfer, Frank Böttcher, and Werner Sommer. Moderation: Jörg Matschullat and Christian Bernhofer


18.–20.11. Geoökologie: Dialog von Forschung und Praxis. Die Jahrestagung der deutschen Geoökologen, zugleich 30 Jahre VGöD sowie 20 Jahre Geoökologiestudium und Inter-disziplinäres Ökologisches Zentrum an der TU Bergakademie Freiberg. Jörg Matschullat mit Katja Horota, Constance Bornkampf sowie sehr vielen großartigen HelferInnen.

07.–10.12. ‘Iron oxide, copper, gold and iron oxide apatite deposits’. 14th Freiberg Short Course in Economic Geology. WG Economic Geology and Petrology

Public talks 2016 06.01. Andreas Massanek: terra mineralia – ein Glücksfall für Freiberg? Talk Lions-Club Freiberg 23.–24.02. Jörg Matschullat: ‘What is EcoRespira-Amazon?’ and ‘Soil and ecosystem respiration

under different land cover’. Talks at Brazilian-German workshop at Embrapa, Manaus 01.–02.03. Reinhard Kleeberg: Internationaler Workshop ”Rietveld Analysis with BGMN”. Mit 21

Teilnehmern aus 6 Ländern war er voll ausgebucht. Referenten waren Reinhard Kleeberg und Nicola Döbelin (Bettlach/Schweiz).

11.03. Gerhard Heide: Zersägt und zermahlen, verätzt und verbrannt, bestrahlt und durchleuch-tet: - Minerale im Labor. Vortrag auf dem transdisziplinären internationalen Symposium „Die Würde des Minerals“ vom 09.–12.03. in Strasbourg/Frankreich

12.03. Andreas Massanek: Faszination durch die Ästhetik der Minerale – Wissensvermittlung in der Ausstellung „terra mineralia“ in Freiberg. Vortrag auf dem transdisziplinären interna-tionalen Symposium „Die Würde des Minerals“ vom 09.–12.03. in Strasbourg/Frankreich

15.03. Lennart Kieschnik, Jörg Matschullat, Stefan Lenk, Anne Schucknecht, Stephanie Hänsel, Dominic Rumpf: Blitzklimatologie – Statistische Analyse des Blitzgeschehens in Sachsen. Auf Einladung des VDE Sachsen, Dresden

15.–17.03. Frei O (2016) The La-Ba chronometer – steps towards its revival. 1st Good Meeting on the Geology of Ore Deposits, Freiberg

14.04. Jörg Matschullat: Bodenatmung (CO2, CH4, N2O) in Abhängigkeit von Landnutzung und klimatischen Bedingungen. Eingeladener Vortrag der Leibniz-Sozietät der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, Kolloquium Klima und Menschheit

26.04. Jörg Matschullat: Wann ist ein Wald ein Wald? Bo-den- und Ökosystematmung im Amazonasbecken. Eingeladener Vortrag des Rektorats der TU Bergakademie Freiberg

02.05. Jörg Matschullat: Talk on EcoRespira-Amazon. Brasília during NoPa2 workshop

06.06. Xiaoli Wang (Photo right): Rietveld refinement of selected structural parameters of dioctahedral smectites. 53rd CMS Annual Meeting in Atlanta. Xiaoli Wang received a CMS travel award. Her talk was selected as ‘Best student oral contribution award’!

07.06. Reinhard Kleeberg: Outcomes of the 8th Reynolds Cuup in quantitative mineral phase analysis. 53rd CMS Annual Meeting in Atlanta

09.–11.06 Anke Tietz: Interdisciplinary linking of historical collections: Science studies in geoscienc-es of the late Enlightenment. XVII Universeum Annual Meeting: Connecting Collections from June 9th to 11th 2016, Amsterdam & Utrecht (Poster)

13.06. Jörg Matschullat: Vortrag zu EcoRespira-Amazon. Mineralogisches Seminar im Institut 6.–10.07. Götze J (2016) Agates of Saxony. Invited Speaker Agate Expo 2016, Cedarburg Wiscon-

sin (USA) 15.08. Clemens Reimann, Matschullat J, Fabian K, Klug M, Nurgaliev D: GEMAS – geochemical

mapping of agricultural soil of Europe: new developments. ISEH 2016 & ISEG 2016, talk, Galway, Ireland

11.–15.09. Ilja Kogan: Fossils: Key to evolution, stratigraphy an palaeoenvironments. 2 Vorträge auf der 87. Jahrestagung der Paläontologischen Gesellschaft e.V. in Dresden

27.09. Jörg Matschullat: ‘When is a tropical forest a forest – or what do we know about the Ama-zon?’ GOAL conference workshop, Bogotá, Colombia


10. Silke Sekora (2016): Did garnet grow in the petrified woods of Chemnitz?, Federov Ses-sion 2016, Conference proceedings and poster, St. Petersburg, Russia, RMS-DPI code: 2016-1-63-1; http://www.minsoc.ru/viewreports.php?id=22&cid=1753&rid=2062

20.10. Andreas Massanek: Ohne Sammler kein Museum – ohne Sammler keine Wissenschaft. Vortrag anlässlich des 40. Jahrestages der Gründung der Sammlergruppe Cottbus

28.10. Jörg Matschullat: Lightning climatology of Saxony and Thuringia. Invited talk, VDE Aschaffenburg

Andreas Massanek: Weltweit einzigartig – drei mineralogische Ausstellungen von Weltruf in einer Stadt! Vortrag im Forum Minerale anlässlich der Munich Show 2016

10.11. Jörg Matschullat: ‘Experiences with stakeholder interaction – Annaberg Climate Days’. Invited talk @ GERICS Conference, Hamburg (8.–10.11.2016)

15.11. Jörg Matschullat: Ist nachhaltiger Bergbau möglich? Eingeladener Vortrag zur Ringvorlesung der AG Umwelt der TU Bergakademie Freiberg

Andreas Massanek: Neues aus den Mineralogischen Sammlungen in Freiberg. Vortrag beim Verein der Mineralien- und Fossilienfreunde in Radebeul

23.11 Pleßow A, Uhlig S, Pilz C, Fischer U (2016) Erz aus Freiberg: Branchenfremde versus Spezialisten. ICPMS-Anwendertreffen, Profen

Miscellaneous 2016 All year

• Reinhard Kleeberg: Head of the Deutsche Ton- und Tonmineralgruppe e.V. since July 2016; Chair of the Source Clay Committee and Chair of the Reynolds Cup Committee of The Clay Minerals Society

• Jens Götze: SPRINGER Advisory Board Mineralogy (Program Advisor) seit April 2015 • Jörg Matschullat: Member of DFG collegiate 316 Geochemistry, Mineralogy and Crystallog-

raphy (Section 316-01 Organic and Inorganic Geochemistry, Biogeochemistry, Mineralogy, Petrology, Crystallography, Mineral deposits) until 2019

• Tom Járóka: 10/2015-10/2016: President SEG Student Chapter Freiberg

During the year 14.01. Vortrag von Prof. Dr. Otmar Edenhofer im Rahmen des 20. Krüger Kollegs zur

Bedeutung des Parisabkommens COP-21. Moderation und Diskussion Jörg Matschullat

21.02.–27.03. Phase 1 fieldwork EcoRespira-Amazon (Jörg Matschullat with Sophie von Fromm and Laura Medeiros Braga in Amazonas, Brazil; Photo right)

25.05. Kaisa Turunen and Antti Pasanen, Finnish Geological Survey visit our institute. Talks with the WG’s on possible col-laboration.

14.06. Oliver Frei: Gottfried Silber-mann Grundschule - Projekttag "Minerale und Gesteine“

09.07.–12.08. Phase 2 fieldwork EcoRespira-Amazon (Jörg Matschullat with Sophie von Fromm, Carolin Schröder and Thomas Drauschke in Amazonas, Brazil). Picture below: SEMACH-FG chamber system with Spritze for gas sampling for sub-sequent gas chromatographical quantification of CO2, CH4 and N2O concentrations and flux calculations (picture next page).


Dynamic closed chamber sys-tem SEMACH-FG for on-site determination of CO2 respira-tion and fluxes and – via sy-ringe interface on top – CH4

and N2O fluxes after GC-quantification of sample series

08.–11.09. EU C.A.F.E. project workshop Universitat de les Iles Balears, Palma de Mallorca (Jörg Matschullat)

25.09.–03.10. GOAL workshop conference and excursion, Bogotá, Colombia. Organisation Jörg Matschullat and Klaus Stanek (photos below: Excursion, Jörg Matschullat)

12.11. Public reading (2. Freiberger Lesenacht): Jörg Matschullat ‘Das EcoRespira-Amazon Abenteuer, Phase 01’

Research stays of guest students and scientists Postdoc Prof. Yoshitaka Hosoi, aktuell Visiting Professor der Universitäten Akita, Hokkaido und

Osaka in Japan und Senior Advisor for Natural Resources der Japan International Corporation Agency (JICA) besucht unser Institut 14.–17.05.

Postdoc Dr. Clemens Reimann, Norwegischer Geologischer Dienst in Trondheim besucht un-ser Institut vom 3. bis 7.06. Sein Vortrag am 6. Juni zum Thema Ecogeochemistry on Kola Pensinsula – Vernadskiy and Goldschmidt revisited ist gut besucht und findet re-ges Diskussionsinteresse.

Postdoc Joanna Pszonka (AGH University of Science and Technology Krakow, Poland); DAAD Stipendium

Postdoc Christoph Reuther DFG-Projekt PhD Anna Serova, Universität Magnitogorsk, Russland (September 2014–März 2015) mit

russischem Staatsstipendium (DAAD). Die Umweltmanagerin bearbeitet bei uns um-weltgeochemische Daten aus dem Uralfluss und Nebenflüssen im Bereich des Indus-triekombinates ihrer Heimatstadt (AG-GCG).

Teaching courses / Excursions / Special exhibits 15.–16.01. Jörg Matschullat, Alexander Pleßow, Christine Pilz, Stephanie Uhlig: Analytical Geo-

chemistry. Intensive course for 8 young Afghan academic teachers from various Af-ghan universities a spart oft he AMEA project

23.–25.02. Internal project workshop EcoRespira-Amazon at Embrapa Amazonia Ocidental, Ma-naus mit 34 TeilnehmerInnen


10.–12.05. Jörg Matschullat: Organisation und Moderation 10. Annaberger Klimatage „Wie sehr müssen wir differenzieren?“ in Annaberg-Buchholz

21.–22.05. Jörg Matschullat: Organisation und Durchführung des Teils Atmosphärenforschung im Interdisziplinären Geländepraktikum (IGEL) im Tharandter Wald

23.05. – 27.05. Netzwerktreffen Projekt ResErVar in Clausthal. Dabei ging es um Vernetzung und Informationsaustausch der Verbundpartner im r4-Projekt mit Teilnehmern von RWTH Aachen, TU Clausthal, TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Universität Tübingen und des Helmholtz Instituts Freiberg, außerdem Mitgliedern des Industriebeirates. Neben einer Vortragssession wurden Bergwerke aus den verschiedenen Epochen des Har-zer Bergbaus besichtigt und befahren

28.05.–06.06. Thomas Seifert: Teilnahme und Präsentationen zur GAC-MAC-Tagung 2016 in Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, Canada “Margins Through Time” und Teilnahme an den GAC-MAC-Exkursionen „The History and Geology of Klondike Gold“ und „The Keno Hill Mining District (Ag-Zn-Pb vein-type mineralization)”

Left: Large-scale gold placer deposits. Right: Gold nuggets, Klondike Gold Fields near Dawson City, Yukon Territorry, Canada (Photos: Thomas Seifert 05-2016)

25.–26.06. Excursion Environmental geochemistry, Freiberg Mulde valley (Jörg Matschullat) 01.07. Alexander Pleßow: Ökotoxikologie-Exkursion zum Umweltbundesamt Bad Elster Juli Netzwerktreffen des Projekts DESMEX in Schleiz. Beim dem Treffen ging es um die

Vernetzung und den Informationsaustausch der Verbundpartner im r4-Projekt DESMEX, mit Teilnehmern von der WWU Münster, der Universität Köln, der TU Bergakademie Freiberg, der BGR, außerdem Mitgliedern des Industriebeirates

18.–29.07. Bernhard Schulz (Leitung): Geologisch-petrographisches Geländepraktikum Ostalpen. Module Regionale Geologie im BSc Geologie-Mineralogie (BGM) und Mineralogisch-Petrologisches GP im Studiengang MGEO, 12 Teilnehmer. Das Geländepraktikum führte in das kristalline Basement der Ötztaler und Deferegger Alpen. Rechts: Teilnehmer des Geländepraktikums Regionale Ge-ologie Ostalpen 2016 am Staller Sattel, Osttirol, Österreich, im Hintergrund die Rieserferner-Gruppe (Foto BS)

27.08. –04.09. Jens Gutzmer, Thomas Seifert, Thomas Dittrich, Tobias Petermann (TUBAF und HIF): Teilnahme am 35. International Geological Congress in Kapstadt, Südafrika mit einer beachtlichen Anzahl an Vortrags- und Posterpräsentationen Freiberger Wissen-schaftler

05.–09.09. Alexander Pleßow: Limnologisches Geländepraktikum zur Talsperre Saidenbach, zum IGB an den Müggelsee, den Stechlinsee, die Fuchskuhle und den Dagowsee sowie zur LMBV ins Lausitzer Revier

Tom Járóka: 13th Ni-Cu-PGE Symposium in Perth, Australien, zusammen mit Master-student Henning Seibel. Präsentation eines Vortrags über „Mafic dike-hosted Ni-Cu-Co-(PGE) mineralization of the former mine «Bergsegen», Sohland/Rožany, Germa-ny/Czech Republic“ und eines Posters im Rahmen der Konferenz. Im Anschluss ein-wöchige Exkursion zu „Komatiite-hosted Ni-Cu-PGE deposits of West Australia“ unter


der Leitung von Dr. Stephen J. Barnes (u.a. Befahrung der Ni-Bergwerke von Kam-balda Long Victor, Black Swan und Murrin Murrin; zahlreiche Komatiit-Aufschlüsse sowie lateritische Verwitterungsprofile im Raum Kalgoorlie-Leonora).

Excursion participants ‘Komatiite-hosted Ni-Cu-PGE deposits of Western Aus-tralia’, led by Dr. Stephen J. Barnes (lateritic weathering pro-file near Murrin Murrin, WA)

25.–28.09. Bernhard Schulz (Teilnahme) Tagung GEOTirol, Universität in Innsbruck. Berlin an der FU Berlin in Dahlem. Es handelte sich um die gemeinsame Jahrestagung der Deutschen Geologischen Gesellschaft - Geologische Vereinigung (DGGV), Öster-reichischen Geologischen Gesellschaft (ÖGG) und der Bodenseetagung. Zentrale Themen waren die Geologie der Alpen und die Ingenieurgeologie, insbesondere Tunnelbau und Hangbewegungen. Es gab auch eine Session zur Lagerstättenkunde.

14.–19.10. Netzwerktreffen Projekt ResErVar in Freiberg. Bei dem Treffen wurden wiederum die neuen Erkenntnisse der Verbundpartner ausgetauscht. Die auswärtigen Partner nahmen an einem Einführungskurs zur Mineral Liberation Analysis (MLA) teil. Exkur-sionen nach Zinnwald, zur Altenberger Pinge sowie den Zinnkammern Pöhla und der Halde der Grube St. Richard wurden durchgeführt

20.–21.10. r4-Statuskonferenz bei der BGR in Hannover. An der Konferenz wurden die Fortschritte aller Teilprojekte im r4-Verbund vorgestellt.

24.–29.10. Short Course and excursion “Fluids in the Earth” in Naples (photo at right), dedicated to the theory of fluid-inclusions methodology. A 5-day intensive course elucidated various aspects (Thermodynam-ics, phase diagrams, case studies, exploration rele-vance, etc.) around includions in hydrothermal de-posits. The one-day excursion to the Phlegrean Fields in the north of Naples further emphasized the issues.

25.10. Netzwerktreffen des Projekts DESMEX in Köln. Bei dem Treffen wurden wiederum die neuen Erkennt-nisse der Verbundpartner ausgetauscht und das weitere Vorgehen im gesamten Projekt geplant.

20.11. Jörg Matschullat und Helmuth Albrecht: Geoökologische und industrie- sowie land-schaftgeschichtliche Erzgebirgsexkursion im Rahmen der Jahrestagung „Geoökolo-gie: Dialog von Forschung Praxis“ in Freiberg (photo below)

Exkursion participants on the 20 m tower of anchor station Oberbärenburg, upper eastern Erzgebirge


Our ‘additions’ (babies) – We congratulate! Jennifer Schlicke delivered in August 2016 her son Jonathan. Our lab (isotopic geochemistry) now scores very high in the “number of children per full-time position” (≈ 2).

All the Best for 2017 !

Top left: Werner-Bau prior to the renovations. Top right: How we looked like for many months. Centre left: Brennhausgasse road was renewed, too. Centre right: We often stood in the rain

Below: Where is Werner-Bau? Aerial picture from Freiberg. Source: https://www.nuernbergluftbild.de/images/luftbild/P08082816d.jpg

NEW: Contract between the Brazilian Agriculture and Soil Reseach Agency Embrapa and TUBAF: Internships and exchange of reseachers as of NOW.

First beneficiaries: Sophie von Fromm (intern) Dr. Roberval de Lima (post-doc)

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