page_title: Greifensteine
section_title: Mineral finds
hierarchical_section_title: Greifensteine / Geology / Mineral finds
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Greifensteinit (Bildbreite: 3 mm) Fundort: Greifensteine, Ehrenfriedersdorf, Erzgebirge, Sachsen, Deutschland English: Greifensteinite (Picture size: 3 mm) Locality: Greifensteine, Ehrenfriedersdorf, Ore mountains, Saxony, Deutschland
context_page_description: The Greifensteine is a rock tower in the Ore Mountains, Germany, between the towns of Geyer, Ehrenfriedersdorf and Jahnsbach. The highest of the seven granite rocks reaches 731 m. Another six rock towers were demolished by quarrying, which ended in 1923.
context_section_description: Due to the productiveness of its ore deposits, the Greifensteine are also a well-known site of many different minerals and their varieties. As of 2014, a total of around 50 minerals and 10 varieties have been discovered here, including inter alia the well-known minerals andalusite, beryl, gypsum, haematite, muscovite, sphalerite, pyrite, topaz, wavellite and zircon, as well as various garnets, tourmalines, (dravite, elbaite, schorl) and wolframites. There are also rare minerals such as childrenite and natrodufrénite, as well as the radioactive minerals autunite and torbernite.
  The Greifensteine is also a type locality for the following minerals: fluorapatite, greifensteinite, lacroixite and roscherite.
caption: Greifensteinite from the type locality of Greifenstein (image width: 3 mm)
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