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Auscheter height, Auschet near Scmelz in the Saarland.The finding zone is situated on fields on the ridge above the Nunkirchen Jasper Mine („German Lapis “). Mostly small nodules under 5 cm; often with bluish colouring and tender banding. The red-spotted crust of many nodules from here consists of  flaky heulandite - a zeolithic mineral.