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 Topic: Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 2022! |
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| Gerhard Brandstetter Replies: 18 Views: 3684 |
 Forum: Comments & Suggestions Posted: Dec 23, 2021 13:40 Subject: Re: Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 2022! |
| Merry Christmas! | |
| Topic: Collection of Gerhard Brandstetter |
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| Gerhard Brandstetter Replies: 67 Views: 98564 |
Forum: Collection photos and Collector's page Posted: Oct 05, 2021 04:16 Subject: Re: Collection of Gerhard Brandstetter |
| Mineralogical trips to Tunisia - a lesser known country in the world of minerals | |
| Topic: Collection of Gerhard Brandstetter |
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| Gerhard Brandstetter Replies: 67 Views: 98564 |
Forum: Collection photos and Collector's page Posted: Sep 29, 2021 09:48 Subject: Re: Collection of Gerhard Brandstetter |
| Alpine finds from Gastein Valley - Part 2
Some are self collected. In addition i could acquire some nice specimen from other collectors. |
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| Topic: Collection of Gerhard Brandstetter |
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| Gerhard Brandstetter Replies: 67 Views: 98564 |
Forum: Collection photos and Collector's page Posted: Sep 27, 2021 07:50 Subject: Re: Collection of Gerhard Brandstetter |
| Time for some alpine classics from Gastein Valley in the Hohe Tauern mountains.
Some are even self collected Part 1 |
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| Topic: Question about an old specimen |
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| Gerhard Brandstetter Replies: 8 Views: 2494 |
Forum: What is it? - Where is it from? Posted: Sep 27, 2021 02:30 Subject: Re: Question about an old specimen |
| Interesting alpine specimen!
For sure not Hematite, from Dognacska, [Dognecea] Hungary. I own some. Crystal forms can be very different and crazy here, but matrix is wrong and in the Banat sample ... |
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| Topic: Favourite Tourmalines? |
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| Gerhard Brandstetter Replies: 28 Views: 31530 |
Forum: Favourite Minerals Posted: Oct 20, 2020 14:53 Subject: Re: Favourite Tourmalines? |
| Elbaite from Morocco is relatively rare. In 2017 i acquired this crystal group from a Moroccan dealer who told me about the locality. I was skeptical - during this time the few specimens on the marke ... | |
| Topic: Mineral Collections of Brazil |
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| Gerhard Brandstetter Replies: 14 Views: 7919 |
Forum: Mineralogical Literature Posted: Oct 05, 2020 04:54 Subject: Re: Mineral Collections of Brazil |
| Mineral Collections of Brazil/Coleçóes
Minerais do Brasil By Carlos Cornejo and Andrea Bartorelli, 2020. Solaris Edições Culturais, São Paulo, Brazil, 792 pages, ISBN 978-8589820134 (English) or I ... |
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| Topic: Mineral Collections of Brazil |
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| Gerhard Brandstetter Replies: 14 Views: 7919 |
Forum: Mineralogical Literature Posted: Oct 04, 2020 14:07 Subject: Re: Mineral Collections of Brazil |
| I have the english version at home.
704 pages full of very informative text and thousands (!!!) of excellent photos. Not only the usual minerals like Tourmalines and Beryls - but also lesser kno ... |
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| Topic: Pyrope panning 2020 |
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| Gerhard Brandstetter Replies: 1 Views: 4807 |
Forum: Rockhounding trips Posted: May 19, 2020 05:10 Subject: Re: Pyrope panning 2020 |
| Hi!
Your Pyrope finds are interesting for me. Two years ago i was invited to visit the mine in Podsedice and found my own Bohemian Pyropes. I have many photos from this trip and finds. In no ... |
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| Topic: A mineralogical trip through the states of USA - Arizona |
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| Gerhard Brandstetter Replies: 80 Views: 111594 |
Forum: A mineralogical trip through the states of USA Posted: May 17, 2020 14:53 Subject: Re: A mineralogical trip through the states of USA - Arizona |
| Wulfenite from the Defiance mine, Dragoon Mtns, Cochise Co, AZ | |
| Topic: Collection of Gerhard Brandstetter |
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| Gerhard Brandstetter Replies: 67 Views: 98564 |
Forum: Collection photos and Collector's page Posted: May 16, 2020 15:08 Subject: Re: Collection of Gerhard Brandstetter |
| Again some classic minerals from Banska Stiavnica, Slovaikia - Part II | |
| Topic: Collection of Gerhard Brandstetter |
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| Gerhard Brandstetter Replies: 67 Views: 98564 |
Forum: Collection photos and Collector's page Posted: May 12, 2020 10:49 Subject: Re: Collection of Gerhard Brandstetter |
| Some ugly classics from northern Europe | |
| Topic: Collection of Gerhard Brandstetter |
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| Gerhard Brandstetter Replies: 67 Views: 98564 |
Forum: Collection photos and Collector's page Posted: May 08, 2020 12:49 Subject: Re: Collection of Gerhard Brandstetter |
| One of my main interests are the classic finds from old Austro-Hungarian localities. Like Banska Stiavnica (Schemmnitz) in Slovakia, featured in Minrec May/June 2016. Together with my now late Slovaki ... | |
| Topic: Favourite mineral species/families? |
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| Gerhard Brandstetter Replies: 19 Views: 32822 |
Forum: Favourite Minerals Posted: May 08, 2020 05:34 Subject: Re: Favourite mineral species/families? |
| My main focus is on minerals from Austria and the classics finds from the old Austro-Hungarian monarchy: A, Cz, Sk, H, Ro,..... I also love nice and rare systematic minerals as well as any other aesth ... | |
| Topic: Collection of Gerhard Brandstetter |
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| Gerhard Brandstetter Replies: 67 Views: 98564 |
Forum: Collection photos and Collector's page Posted: May 07, 2020 13:00 Subject: Re: Collection of Gerhard Brandstetter |
| Theme for today: the diversity of Austrian Fluorites, Part 1 - have fun! | |
| Topic: Collection of Gerhard Brandstetter |
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| Gerhard Brandstetter Replies: 67 Views: 98564 |
Forum: Collection photos and Collector's page Posted: May 06, 2020 13:31 Subject: Re: Collection of Gerhard Brandstetter |
| In the past weeks I shot some photos of my Hungarian minerals. First visit was in 1981. During this time Rudabanya was nearly unknown to the western world. I was kindly invited to live in the miners h ... | |
| Topic: Favourite Azurites? |
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| Gerhard Brandstetter Replies: 44 Views: 26460 |
Forum: Favourite Minerals Posted: Apr 29, 2020 04:43 Subject: Re: Favourite Azurites? |
| Thank you for the nice words, Conor, Tobi and Volkmar!
I have several photo versions from the 4 cm specimen, but this is the image I like most. From Schwaz-Brixlegg area I have a nice subcollecti ... |
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| Topic: Favourite Azurites? |
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| Gerhard Brandstetter Replies: 44 Views: 26460 |
Forum: Favourite Minerals Posted: Apr 28, 2020 12:20 Subject: Re: Favourite Azurites? |
| Austria is not really famous for Azurites. But the nice specimens from the historic Schwaz-Brixlegg mining district deserve some attention. The crystals are always small - but in combination with othe ... | |
| Topic: Favourite Azurites? |
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| Gerhard Brandstetter Replies: 44 Views: 26460 |
Forum: Favourite Minerals Posted: Apr 28, 2020 08:49 Subject: Re: Favourite Azurites? |
| Great specimens here - congrats to all!
Yes - Morocco belongs to the countries with several fabulous Azurite localities. I had two visits to this wonderful country and of course I brought back some ... |
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| Topic: What did Goethe collect? |
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| Gerhard Brandstetter Replies: 14 Views: 13867 |
Forum: The histories behind mineral specimens Posted: Apr 13, 2020 08:42 Subject: Re: What did Goethe collect? |
| From September 1786 till May 1788 Goethe visited Italy and described it in his travel diary "Italienische Reise". As a souvenir he brought back a large selection of rocks and minerals. Her ... | |
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