Chronological Reports
 Collection Reinhold BacherHaving been asked several time to present my collection, I will now take us on a visit to the collection of minerals in my cellar..... |  2003 May, Skeletal QuartzAfter my beautiful finds in the Diepalgraben there were no more trips because I started building an extension to my house. In the middle of May, after many intensive days at work, .... |  2003 April, Quartz and CalciteWhen recovering the beautiful milky quartzes (DI 2 described in the last report), I frequently had to take short breaks. Chiseling proved to be laborious, or a part of my body ached from lying for long stretches of time in uncomfortable positions.... |
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 2003 March, Quartz and CalciteIn March 2003 I started my first collecting trip in the Diepalgraben in Zederhaus. I wanted to examine a place in the back part of a ravine. But, the last remnants of winter held firm precisely in this area.... |  2002 September, Quartz, AdulariaEarlier that year, in April, I discovered in a slightly higher elevation at this location the good quartz crystals from the last report; in September I returned. For the first time I went through a forest road..... |  2002 April, QuartzAfter I regained my passion for searching for minerals, I started looking during the spring of 2002 for quartz clefts in the green-schist... |
 2001 Summit Cleft, FluoriteIn the beginning of July 2001 a group of Strahler from Lungau, including myself, managed to open up another cleft through a passage of clay.... |  2000 May, Quartz, CalciteWhile driving on the interstate in Zederhaustal, something caught my attention that I had previously not noticed, a little wall of green-schist..... |  1999 April, Calcite, QuartzThis find was my first major one in the green-schist. That day I searched the green-schist a little further down the valley..... |
 1995 October, Calcite, TitaniteIn early October 1995 I was in the Zederhaus Valley for the first time looking for minerals. A verbal tip about a calcite site and exact directions lead me to the Diepalgraben.... |  1996 April, Calcite, QuartzThis site has been worked on for a long time and was considered exploited. In April 1996, with a long chisel..... |