2014

The year 2014 was very eventful, not only in terms of mineral collecting. I made a really good find in January, which was really unexpected. The cleft I discovered, is named after my daughter, who was born in summer 2014, the Ameliekluft (Amelie pocket). I will publish a detailed report, when I finished my work at that spot, it will take some time! To get an impression of the find situation you can find some photos below, cleaned specimens can be seen in the gallery of my personal collection.

  • The first real specimen, not the best, but I kept it for my collection!
  • ....not much to see....
  • .....also not here....
  • ....and also not here....
  • this is how the cleft looked like at the end of the first day ....
  • 2nd day, now you can perfectly see the shape of the pocket entrance...
  • .....some specimens....
  • ....cleft in detail....
  • ....a big specimen (~ 10 kg)....
  • ....front view....
  • ....the quartz band, which is running into the inside....
  • ....and it is much wider than the front view suggests....
  • ....a beautiful specimen, even if you can just guess because of all the dirt....
  • ....another specimen....
  • ....a good single crystal....
  • ....floater specimen....
  • ....beautiful floater....
  • ....a bigger specimen, directly after the extraction....
  • ....another freshly extracted specimen....
  • ....double terminated crystal....
  • ....another double terminated crystal....
  • ....and another one....
  • ....big single crystal.....
  • ....big floater specimen....
  • ....floater.....
  • ...in between some other fascinating photo motives, very impressive....
  • ...a big specimen, after the first cleaning.... (to be continued)