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Current Reports
 2021, July, New Fluorites from the Summit Cleft, WeisseckTwenty years have passed since the discovery at 2,700 meters height of the Summit Cleft. Collectors have extracted many beautiful fluorites that have been.... |  2021, February, Calcite, RamingsteinIn mid-February, after a busy few days of work, I felt a call from the wild: an urgent need to do something outdoors.... |  2020, Rucksack Cleft, Weisseck, FluoriteDuring the many years of working in the “Ice Cleft” on the Weisseck, I often left my rucksack at a particular place nearby. This location always struck me as being suspicious..... |
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 2019, September, Fluorite, WeisseckAt the beginning of September 2019, I was out on the Weisseck Mountain with Gerhard Aschacher and Alois Krendl to look for fluorites. Gerhard wanted..... |  2020, April, Pyrite, Rutile, Quartz, Zederhaustal, Lungau, Salzburg, AustriaAnton Baier, a good collector friend from Zederhaus, was in the Zederhaus Valley in April 2020 to look for minerals.... |  2019, July, Fluorite, WeisseckIn July 2009 I was with Harry and Hans at the Weisseck to work on the Ice Cleft. Due to the large amount of ice in the cleft, we couldn't do very much.... |
 2019 May, TremoliteThis story begins in late autumn 2018 when heavy rain resulted in several very large mudslides carrying rocks and boulders in the far end of Mur Valley.... |  2018, Etched Fluorite, Summit Cleft, WeisseckIn the fall of 2018 I was largely finished with my efforts in the Summit Cleft to locate skeletonized fluorites. Especially during the two previous years.... |  2014, April, Mauterndorf, FluoriteOne Sunday in April 2014, I was out and about when suddenly I had an urge to take a look at the nearby Mauterndorf quarry.... |
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