Some short notes about my Person:
I was born in 1982 in Vienna (Austria) and started collecting minerals at the age of 12. In 2004 I began collecting minerals in Austria with a special focus on the Gastein valley and the Felber valley.

From 2004-2008 I attended the University of Aplied Science for Tourism Management.

After some years of collecting nearly everything from everywhere I realized that I must be more specific in my hobby. I`ve reduced my collection dramatically.

Nowadays my collection method is really specific because I collect only Beryllium-containing minerals and minerals from Austria. I`ve no prefered size and I´m not interested to have the best of every Specimen. For me it is important to have nearly all approved Beryllium-containig minerals. Today I have 84 (analysed) of the 109 approved Be-minerals. Among thesere there are really rare minerals like Surinamite, Khmaralite, Uralolite from the Type locality, Weinebeneite, Bussyite-(Ce), Makarochkinite, Clinobehoite, Niveolanite, Gugiaite, Fransoletite, Footemineite, Harstigite and Faheyite from the Type locality.

Because of my bad Foto equipment many of my Fotos are not as good as I want. Especially colourless crystals are bad to fotograph for me (and a lot of Beryllium-minerals are colourless). I hope that I have in near future enough money to buy a good equipment.

At this point I would like to say a special thank for their support to Christian Auer, Franz Bernhard, Alois Lechner, Franz Neuhold, Wilhelm Niemetz and Uwe Kolitsch. Furthermore I want to thank my girlfriend Brigitte that she accept my hobby.