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[Gerhard Brandstetter]

Hello all! I am a collector from Austria. Born 1960, mineral infected 1974. Like most of you with too less space for the collection, too less money but too many minerals. I usually collect Austrian minerals, minerals from the old Austro-Hungarian monarchy, other old classics but new finds too. I also have a special interest in Spanish minerals as my Austrian mother also grew up in Madrid and Andalusia. There are so many aspects of mineralogy - i simply love all! What i also love is to take photos from my own samples - hope you like them! So i wish you much fun with it.....

[Gerhard Brandstetter]

Next Lazulite

[GneissWare]

[Gerhard Brandstetter]

and one more....

[Don Lum]

Hello Gerhard,

Nice specimens and good photography.

You are correct, the "mineral infection" we all have is a disease for which there is no cure.

Please keep posting your collection.

Regards,

Don

[Gerhard Brandstetter]

one more?

[Gerhard Brandstetter]

Thank you for your warm welcome. Hope my lazulites are not too boring. I promise this is my last for today!

[Vitomorim]

I subscribe Don. And keep posting your lazulites. Just remember that you can post more than 1 photo at a time.

[Gerhard Brandstetter]

One of my biggest Austrian rarities: Gold wires on Uraninite! On the left side you can see a small mass of Cinnabar. The Gold wires in this area are 100 % natural Gold Amalgam! Very well documented find from around 1970. Biggest samples have more than 10 cm....

[Gerhard Brandstetter]

An other classic from Mitterberg area. Mining started about 3500 years ago. Classic how i told you!

[Gerhard Brandstetter]

Mitterberg was usually an ancient copper mine since celtic times. But good crystals always have been rare. Also "common" Chalcopyrite crytals have been scarce!

[Gerhard Brandstetter]

So - last for today! Here you can see that i not only collect Austrian minerals. But Australia sounds similar....

[Mark Ost]

Wilkomen Gerhard

Nice photos and don't let them discourage you. There are new antibiotics for mineral infections being developed every day. So there is hope! hang in there.

[Martin Rich]

Hello Gerhard,
Greetings from Lower Austria to Upper Austria!

This discussion sounds like that we are all members of a sanatorium. ;)

Gerhard, I know, you have a lot of rarities from Austrian localyties, so I'm looking forward to see your photos.

Nice greetings and we will see us.
Martin

[Gerhard Brandstetter]

Hello Martin! Nice to see you in this forum! So the next two photos are specially for you - we share the same type of infection......