Diepalgraben, Zederhaus, Tamsweg District, Salzburg, Austria

Calcite specimen, with a light green color, from the greenschist in the Diepalgraben.

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THE LARGEST ROCK CRYSTAL OF THE LUNGAU AREA!!! 31 KG, click on other images to see dimension! Green phantoms by green-shists inclusions. Collection Reinhold Bacher. Photo Martin Gruell.

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A very hugh double terminated quartz, white on the sides and glossy and claer at the tips. It is 23cm large. The pocket was in "Grünschiefer". Alpine High Class. Photo Martin Gruell, Reinhold Bacher Coll.

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106mm x 111mm x 61mm, xls up to 23mm on edges. The calcite are partly glossy and show many faces and a typically colour for the location. The specimen is out an alpine cleft, which were hard to find in the area. Material Bacher/Gruell Photo Gruell

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Overall size: 217mm x 176mm x 80mm, size of view 75mm, calcite up to 26mm. The colour of the calcite is partly green, they are resting on quarz var. rock crystal. Photo and coll. Martin Gruell

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85mm x 57mm x 20mm, Calcite 5cm across. Out of an alpine cleft, which are rare and hard to find in the area. xls partly glossy. Matrix Grünschiefer. Material Bacher/Gruell Photo Gruell

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A floater of rock crystal with a sharp phantom. Overall size: 60mm x 39mm x 20mm. Rare at the lokation. Undamaged. Photo and Coll. Martin Gruell

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49mm x 28mm x 17mm. Main crystall 21mm, from an old find at Diepalgraben. Photo and Coll. Martin Gruell

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96mm x 47mm x 30mm. A double terminated rockcrystal, very unusual and grown abstract. The faces are white, the tips are clear and glossy. On the side a calcite. The specimen was found in a "Grünschiefer"-pocket. Photo and Alpine Coll. Martin Gruell

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peter neschen collection (09367)

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Cluster: 7 x 8 cm

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12 x 9 x 9cm. Brownish calcite with waxy lustre on green-shist matrix. Material Bacher/Gruell Photo Gruell.

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This beautiful specimen was the first piece recovered. After opening the cleft, this piece lay in the rubble with the crystals on the underside. It blocked further access into the cleft and required extra care when being removed as it was wedged between other rocks. The green schist matrix shows a distortion that reveals the pressure that had been ...

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A double terminated quartz crystal grown on a cluster of calcites. The quartz crystal narrows towards one end. There are three chlorite-green colored surfaces that are partially covered with a second generation of quartz crystals and chlorite. The other three surfaces reveal a snowy layer and are partially covered with a second generation of ...

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A specimen from the famous find of Bacher Reinhold, which was also published in Lapis magazine. Milky Quartz crystals with some Calcite crystals, found in an alpine cleft in greenschist.

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Specimen from the greenschist zones of Zederhaus, showing a single greenish Calcite grown on a crystallized Quartz plate.

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Well formed plate of Calcite crystals in combination with some small Adularia crystals. This specimen was naturally detached from the ceiling of the cleft and lay on the floor, waiting to get picked.

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More isolated Calcite crystals on a piece of greenschist. Specimens like this were more uncommon at the find, mostly the Calcites are intergrown. The surface of the matrix is nearly completely covered by small Adularia crystals, on front and backside.

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Lovely specimen, formed by Calcite crystals, which are mainly covered by small, glossy Adularia crystals. This piece was also naturally detached from the ceiling of the cleft and was ready to get picked. The backside is also crystallized and a small piece of matrix is also attached.

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Partly naturally etched Calcite on a bit of greenschist matrix. This is the biggest Calcite of the whole find and was one of the first pieces extracted right at the beginning of the cleft. Minor very small Adularia is also present on the matrix.

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In the very front area I was able to recover a 19 centimeter long double terminated quartz crystal. This double-terminated quartz crystal is really unusual in its growth: it consists of two pieces. Both fracture surfaces are healed, finely crystallized and fit together well. The colors of the crystal go from white to light green with an excellent ...

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A spectacle: a big specimen of quartz crystal is sticking out from rubble in the cleft where the Milky Quartzes were found.

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I put a specimen carefully aside and scrutinized the cleft. Between the clay filling and loose-jointed rocks there were rock crystals and tops of rock crystals visible everywhere. Carefully I reached into the cleft and grasped the quartz crystals lying on top. The next specimen I extracted was a floater of about 10 cm.

© Reinhold Bacher