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Current Reports
 2022 July Fluorite KnappenlochIn the Spring of 2022, work on an extension of my house kept me from looking for minerals. Having planned carefully, I made sure I would...... |  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.... |
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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, 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..... |  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.... |
 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.... |  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.... |  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.... |
 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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