Richardswand, Heiligenblut am Großglockner, Spittal an der Drau District, Carinthia, Austria
2 generation of calcite xx. Size of the view : 15 x 10 cm
3,5cm high. Brilliant quality and unusual distortion make this crystal almost look artificial.
Open cleft with a big (16cm) Sceptre Quartz hanging from the ceiling.
© R. Purat
Big Rock Crystal group - old find of Lui Krenn, Rudi Purat and Othmar Baier.
© Rudo
6,5cm high. Parallely oriented Sceptre Quartzes of brilliant quality.
6,5cm high.
11cm high. This lovely Smoky Quartz floater was found by the Carinthian extreme climber Lui Krenn who gave it to me as a present. Thousand thanks, Lui!
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3cm wide. Outstanding brilliance of an alpine Rock crystal.
Size of Siderite crystals: up to 3,5cm on edge.
Collecting Rock Crystals in the alps is quite a tough job. While Lois Krenn is rescuing the crystal groups in an open cleft his friend Othmar Baier is coming to help him. The photo was taken by Rudi Purat in the late nineties.
Rudi Purat had taken this photo in summer 2013 before he started to work some clefts there.