1,775 km²
Land package size
Commodity Focus
The Northern Greywacke Zone (NGZ) dominates the Kitzbühel–Mitterberg–Zell–Mühlbach area — an Old Palaeozoic metasedimentary-volcanosedimentary package hosting the region’s Cu-Pb-Zn (and locally Au) mineralisation. Structure-hosted chalcopyrite-pyrite deposits occur as ore beds, veins, and fractures within metavolcanic rocks and chlorite-sericite phyllites. The adjacent Hohe Tauern crystalline core hosts steep, NNE-trending gold veins.
Over 4,000 years of documented activity: prehistoric/Bronze Age mining, Roman-era gold extraction, medieval intensification of the Kitzbühel copper mines (Röhrerbühel discovery ~1540, deepest shaft in Europe at 886m), continuous Mühlbach production from 1292, and 19th-century deep tunnelling. One of the most extensively documented mining districts in the Eastern Alps.