Building B

Contact: Prof. Harry Becker, PD Dr. J. Elis Hoffmann

The exhibition is accessible from the central entrance of Building B at the ground floor level. The focus of the exhibition is on large specimen of polymetallic metal ores from the seafloor, including large fragments of black smoker chimneys, massive sulfides, cobalt-rich manganese crusts and polymetallic manganese nodules. Further on display are samples from various continental ore deposits, and ore-forming minerals and their crystals.

The collection contains more than 3000 ore samples and minerals for most relevant chemical elements.

The metal ore samples and minerals are also grouped according to genetic criteria into ore deposit types. All major types of deposits are represented and specimen from many classic locales are at hand, including samples from Bushveld, Rammelsberg, Rio Tinto, Broken Hill, Almaden, Cobalt, Potosi, Schneeberg, Tsumeb, Oruro Trepca, Toscana, Smaland-Taberg, Malmberget, Chalkidiki, Göcek, Bidagic, Bleiberg, Lahn-Dill, Oberpfalz, Bad Grund, Zinnwald and many others. Yet another part of the collection contains characteristic ore textures from different types of ore deposits. The collection also includes typical smelting products from various industrial processes and other technical products.

The origin of the FUB ore collection is dating back to the mid-1960s and was initiated by the first chair for Applied Geology/Raw Material Geology Prof. H. J. Schneider. Schneider donated many samples from carbonate-hosted base metal deposits of the eastern Alps. In the 1980s and 1990s, Prof. P. Halbach expanded the inventory of the collection and established the exhibition, by including many samples from marine ore deposits collected during expeditions to the Indian, Atlantic and Pacific ocean. Additional samples were collected during field trips to South Africa, Turkey, Spain and Austria. 

Reference

Coordination Centre  for Scientific University Collections in Germany (German Federal Ministry of Education and Research), https://portal.wissenschaftliche-sammlungen.de/SciCollection/193378 .

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