Packlist Munich (and Liège ;)

Soooooo, what are we bringing?

1. Two donkeys and enough hay and water for them to go 419 miles to Munich (and back home), check...

2. Money, creditcard, change, passport, donkey-license... check...

3. Six bottles of tuica, schnapps, l'eau de vie, sherry, whisky and portwine and coffee, much coffee... check...

4. Some morning-after ibuprofen, aspirin and penicillin... check...

5. Two pairs of underwear, three pairs of socks, a warm sweater to go into the Hofbrauhaus in the evenings. And some strange hats... check... Tootbrush, deodorant, night-goggles... check...

5. One 2,5 meter table (Hall A6 @ A6.469 + A6.469a) in the 'guests from overseas section'

And a few boxes of nice rare ugly minerals... With: 

Niobian-Anatase xls from Fleschsee-Binntal. First picture on Mindat was ours (EDS analysed).

Preiswerkite to 6cm (which is immense, perhaps the biggest ever) from the Type Locality at the Geisspfad-Binntal (EDS analysed).

Sanidine xls to 5 cm (!) in nice large specimens from the classical Type Locality at the Drachenfels (temporary construction site where bedrock was exposed for a few days during the demolition of the old restaurant is now finished and fenced off).

Large Chabournéite xls from the Type Locality Jas Roux with Wakabayashilite-xx, Realgar, Smithite etc ! Only two pictures on Mindat, and our specimens are way better and larger....

A box of rare and ugly black and yellow manganese minerals from two rarely visited far away localities in Switzerland: Johninnesite from the Schmorrasgrat and a set of minerals from the Mn-outcrop under the Pipjigletscher. I have never experienced so much scary rockfall than on the Pipji-tour...

A lot of nice specimens from the Anna: The best Selenium-xx you have ever seen... plus many more rarities like Kremersite, Clairite, nice green Nickelboussingaultite (also see here for a picture), the new Adranosite-(Fe), Thermessaite, Adranosite, NH4-Thermessaite, the best Lannonite xls in the world, Metavoltine, Millosevichite-Godovikovite, Ravatite, Rostite, Sassolite, Tschermigite etc (most PXRD/EDS analysed)

The rare Barium-Phlogopite in nice large shiny specimens from the Finero complex in Italy (with Chromite veins (with hopefully rare PGE-mineral inclusions))

Nice transparent blue Osumilite xls from the Type Locality on the Osumi peninsula in Japan.

Beautiful large specimens of white Canavesite xls with Szaibélyite, Ludwigite, Nesquehonite, Dypingite, Inderite, etc from the Type Locality of Canavesite at the Brosso mine, Italy.

Large nice specimens of yellow Fluoro-edenite xls with crazy Hematite from the Type Locality at Biancavilla, Italy.

Ugly massive special Chamosite from the Type Locality (!) at Chamoson, Switzerland. 

Nice waterblue Magnesioaubertite from the Type Locality on Vulcano Island in Italy.

Plus nice large specimens with Libethenite from the Miguel Vacas mine. Willemite and Descloizite stalactites from the Preguica mine. To 5 cm large hollow Smithsonite to skalenoedric Calcite pseudomorphs from Italy. Hemimorphite from the Precaucion mine. Green Cobaltaustinite and brown Cobaltlotharmeyerite from Aghbar, Bou-Azzer. Cobaltian Olivenite etc from Huercal Overa, Spain. Copper to Aragonite pseudomorphs from Corocoro. Ugly brown special Delvauxite from the Type Locality in Belgium. Jarosite from the Type Locality in Spain. Pseudomalachite from its Type Locality at Virneberg-Rheinbreitbach in Germany. Etc Etc and a lot of other minerals that you might (or might not) like ;)

See here for a list.

If you want to reserve a specimen, contact us...

Hope to see ya! 

Frank & Alfredo

(twisted, indeed :)