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The Wiederauer agate was mined in the years 1717 to 1721 for the Saxonian king. The old mining-operations are not systematically investigated until today  In the year 1992 200m  apart from the old mine adit new finds of this material could be made. Further information is published here in the pdf of the “Arbeitsgemeinschaft historischer Bergbau Seelitz: Bergbau in Wiederau”.

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