The abandoned Dyleň Mine is located in a wooded landscape on the southern slope of the mountain of the same name. The uranium deposit near the extinct village of Slatina (Lohäuser) at the Czech-Bavarian border was discovered in the 1964 mobile gamma-profuse. After the survey in 1966, the mine was incorporated into n. There were two shafts with a depth of 1004 m (pit D-I) and 1258 m (pit D-II). Mining at the Dyleň mine (renamed later to the border guards' mine) was terminated in 1991. 28 km of horizontal galleries and 14 km of vertical shafts and chimneys were stamped. Other important mines worked near Zadní Chodov and Vítkov in Bohemia and Mähring in Bavaria. The district provided less than 10 % of the total uranium mining in the Czech Republic.
Landscape between Cheb and Kynžvart. In the background is Dyleň hill.
The deposit is located in the uranonous zone in the north of the Czech Forest (on the Bavarian side of Oberpfälzer Wald). Uranium mineralization is developed in moldanubic crystalline, near the intra -realization of the Borský granite massif. The crystallinic consists mainly of banded biotitic and Sillimanite-biotitic pararulas, quarcitic pararolics and quarrels. Mine dumps are still open to this day and the material is occasionally divided into forest repairs. Fragments of granite and vein rocks (pegmatites, aplites and lamprophyres) can also be found on the dumps, and very rarely quartz-carbonate veinlets with scattered sulfide mineralization.
Foto 1: Mine No. 3 in the central part of the Zadní Chodov uranium deposit. Photo from the final report on the deposit from 1996
Foto 2: View of the forested ridge of the Dyleň from the uranium mine dump
Foto 3: The uranium mine dump of the Dyleň