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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, September, FluoriteThe 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, FluoriteIn 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.... |
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 2003, July, RutileMuch 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 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, QuartzWhen 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 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..... |
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