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Chronological Reports

Collection Reinhold Bacher Having been asked several time to present my collection, I will now take us on a visit to the collection of minerals in my cellar.....	2004, April, Quartz and Magnetite After a long winter, I set out in early April 2004 with Walter Petzelberger and an acquaintance to search for minerals once again in the Weißburger Graben....	2003, September, Fluorite The surprising Summer 2003 ascent of the Weisseck to the Summit Cleft (see Report….) in which I and my friend Walter discovered excellent green fluorite prompted an unintended consequence. I decided to sacrifice time in September....
2003, August, Fluorite In August 2003 I received number of surprises. It all began with an unexpected visit from Walter Petzelberger. While he was admiring the milky quartzes from my recent find from the Diepalgraben....	2003, July, Rutile Much time had passed since my last visit to the Lanschützgraben. On Saturday July 19th I took a trip to along with Maria and my three sons to the Sticklerhütte.....	2003, May, Skeletal Quartz After 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 When 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....	2003, March, Quartz and Calcite In 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, Adularia Earlier 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, Quartz After 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, Fluorite In 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, Calcite While 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, Quartz This 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, Titanite In 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, Quartz This site has been worked on for a long time and was considered exploited. In April 1996, with a long chisel.....

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