Moonmilk

Moon Milk (Latin Lac Lunae ) is the name for a special type of Calcitablagerung. The concept is based on a historical description of the cave Mondmilchloch on Mount Pilatus from 1555. Often the name is also in the German falsely mountain milk or Mont milk (Lac Montanum ), partly Nix (compare Nixhöhle ) is used. The name derives from the Moon milk is also for the moon milk cave at Lenningen Gutenberg.

Moon milk is usually very white to milky. In contrast to the hard sintered or stalactite it is soft and porous. In rare cases, there are also moon milk in liquid form. So the sensational discovery of a moon milk flow was made in the Basque Country. In Alpstein (Eastern ), especially in the caves of Kamors, was collected in the 19th century moon milk and used as a remedy for man and beast.