Hannes Nestelberger's Photo Gallery
KVR-TF8Pyrite FeS2
Dimensions: 130 mm x 85 mm x 70 mm
Colorful iridiscent tiny pyrite crystals and minor grey wad from a find in 2003 in the ancient Barbara adit.
Collection and photo: Hannes Nestelberger.
CVA-C69Crandallite CaAl3(PO4)(PO3OH)(OH)6 , Wad
Dimensions: 90 mm x 80 mm x 45 mm
This ochre to brown-coloured crandallite sinter with minor black wad was mined in 1958 by Heinz Weninger.
Collection and photo: Hannes Nestelberger (ex coll. Heinz Weninger).
24X-GCMQuartz (Var: Smoky Quartz) SiO2
Dimensions: 120 mm x 105 mm x 75 mm
Floater specimen of clear smoky quartz crystals on gneiss matrix.
Collection and photo: Hannes Nestelberger.
DFF-DV9Quartz (Var: Faden Quartz) SiO2
Dimensions: 43 mm x 25 mm x 16 mm
Perfectly clear faden quartz crystal.
Collection and photo: Hannes Nestelberger.
42P-A1ERhodochrosite MnCO3 , Calcite CaCO3 , Arsenopyrite FeAsS , Quartz SiO2
Dimensions: 97 mm x 69 mm x 61 mm
Arsenopyrite crystals overgrown by intense colored rhodochrosite crystals with colorless calcite- and quartz crystals.
Collection and photo: Hannes Nestelberger (ex coll. Karl Kontrus, Heinz Weninger).
8MJ-TFMDolomite CaMg(CO3)2 , Calcite CaCO3 , Boulangerite Pb5Sb4S11 , Siderite FeCO3
Dimensions: 140 mm x 75 mm x 73 mm
Pale pink dolomite crystals, overgrown by tan siderite crystals and boulangerite-included calcite crystals.
This Specimen was purchased by the Austrian collector Albert Strasser at the mineral show in Tržič, Slovenia, in 1985.
Collection and photo: Hannes Nestelberger.
P1C-YFRCalcite CaCO3
Dimensions: 56 mm x 33 mm x 8 mm
Looking at this calcite specimen I could almost worry that it will fly away one day :-).
Collection and photo: Hannes Nestelberger.
2EE-821Fluorite CaF2 , Calcite CaCO3
Dimensions: 65 mm x 56 mm x 40 mm
Fluorite floater crystal with some small calcite crystals.
Collection and photo: Hannes Nestelberger.
VR9-WCNQuartz SiO2
Dimensions: 180 mm x 135 mm x 75 mm
Somehow strangely grown artichoke quartz from a find latest in the 1970s.
Collection and photo: Hannes Nestelberger (ex coll. Heinz Weninger).
P1J-MC3Pyrrhotite Fe1-xS , Quartz SiO2
Dimensions: 113 mm x 76 mm x 51 mm
Bronze-coloured pyrrhotite crystals are overgrown by clear rock crystals.
This Specimen was traded at the mineral show in Tržič, Slovenia, in 1981.
Collection and photo: Hannes Nestelberger.
