These are links to the private sites of the site-owners as well as links to sites of partners and institutions:
Site Owners:
- Reto Balmer’s website with stories about our mineral prospecting projects and a lot of information (this website is only available in German):
schweizer-bergkristalle.jimdo.com - Steven Götz’s website for his graphics business (this website is available in German and Englisch):
stevengoetz.com - Felix Spahr’s website with many pictures of his mineral collection and a lot of information (this website is only available in German):
spahr-mineralien.jimdo.com
Sites of Friends and fellow Prospectors:
- Lutz Püschel’s website, specialized in minerals of the second generation. i.e. sceptres
(this website is only available in German):
alpine-minerals.online - The Peter Tscherrig Anenhütte (2’358 a.s.l.) is situated in the midst of the UNESCO world heritage at the very end of the wild and romantic Lötschental. The lodge is surrounded by high summits and wild glaciers. During the summer they offer crystal prospecting tours for families. (this website is available in German, French and English):
anenhuette.ch - Schweizer-mineralienwelt, the online mineral-exhibition of Peter Kürsteiner with his online-shop:
schweizer-mineralienwelt.ch - Ewald Gorsatt, for crystal prospecting excursions and stone-cutting-courses in the famous Binntal:
gorsatt.ch - Yves Raemy, the crystal prospector
rauchquarz-raemy.ch - Mineralps by Laurent Bernard from Belgium:
mineralps.com - Thilo Arlt, gologist and prospector:
www.crystals.ch - Franz von Arx, one of the discoverers of the giant Planggenstock crystals:
vonarx-bergkristalle.ch - Roberto Bianchi from Ticino:
mineralidellealpi.altervista.org - Alex Derungs in Grisons:
kristalle-mineralien.ch - Die Messerschmiede Engel verkauft selbstgeschmiedete Strahlerwerkzeuge:
www.engelmesser.ch - Familie Indergand from Göschenen:
bergkristalle-indergand.ch - Bruno Müller from Uri:
rauchquarz.ch - Elio Müller, one of the prospectors on the Planggenstock:
www.bergkristalle-mueller.ch - Emanuel Regli from Uri:
www.bergkristalle-uri.ch - Patrick Reith from Disentis:
www.mineralien-surselva.com - Lukas and Paul (co-discoverer of the giant crystals from the Planggenstock) von Känel from Reichenbach:
kristallkeller.ch
Mineral-Clubs and -Associations:
- SVSMF – Swiss Association of Prospectors, Mineral- and Fossil-Collectors (Here you’ll find links to all the member-clubs of the SVSMF): www.svsmf.ch
- Aargau – MFFB – Mineralien- und Fossilienfreunde Aargau: www.mffa.ch
- Basel – Mineralien- und Fossilienverein Sektion Basel:www.mineralien-basel.ch
- Bern – MFB – Berner Mineralien– und Fossilienfreunde. www.mfbe.ch
- Geneva – LASGAM – Sociéte Genevoise de Minéralogie: lasgam.ch
- Grisons – SVSMF-Sektion Graubünden: www.svsmf-graubuenden.ch
- Grisons – Uniun Cristallina Disentis: www.uniun-cristallina.ch
- Lucerne – Zentralschweizer Mineralien- uns Fossilienfreunde: mineralien-zentralschweiz.ch
- Neuchâtel – SN-MP – Sociéte Neuchâteloise de Minéralogie et de Paléontologie: sn-mp.ch
- Oberwallis – MFO – Mineralienfreunde Oberwallis: www.mineralienfreundeoberwallis.ch
- SGHB – Schweizerische Gesellschaft für historische Bergbauforschung: www.sghb.ch
- Solothurn – Mineralien- und Fossilienfreunde Solothurn: mfs-mineralien-freunde-solothurn.ch
- St. Gallen – Mineralogischer Verein St. Gallen: www.mineralienverein.ch
- Ticino – CCMFT – Club Cercatori die Minerali e Fossili Ticino: ccmft.ch
- Uri – UMF – Urner Mineralienfreunde: www.mineralienfreund.ch
- Waadt – SVM – Société Vaudoise de Minéralogie: www.svm.ch
- Zurich – SZM – Studienkreis Zürcher Mineraliensammler: www.szm.ch
- Swiss Gold Panning Association: www.goldwaschen.ch
- The Goldmines of Gondo «on the trail of the gold rush»: www.goldmine-gondo.ch
- Germany – VFMG – Vereinigung der Freunde der Mineralogie und Geologie, Deutschland: www.vfmg.de
- USA – FMC – Flatiron Mineral Club, Boulder Colorado: bcn.boulder.co.us
Museums & Scientific Institutions:
- Berne Natural History Museum: www.nmbe.ch
- Dinosaur Museum Frick: www.sauriermuseum-frick.ch
- Urner Mineralien–Museum, Seedorf: www.mineralienfreund.ch
- Schweizer Museen: www.museums.ch
- Swiss Federal Office for Topography, Wabern (BE): www.swisstopo.ch
- Topografische und geologische Karten, diverse GIS-Daten: map.geo.admin.ch
- Geologischer Datenviewer: www.geologieviewer.ch
- Geologieportal: www.geologieportal.ch
- Platform Geowissenschaften der Akademie der Naturwissenschaften (SCNAT)
- Department of Geology, Uni Berne: www.geo.unibe.ch
- Department of Earth Sciences, ETH Zurich: www.erdw.ethz.ch
- Adventure Geology (excursions, geo-walks, lectures, museums with geology departments, mines open to public visits): www.erlebnis-geologie.ch
- Swiss Museums: www.museums.ch
- Berne Natural History Museum: www.nmbe.ch
- Dinosaur-Museum Frick: www.sauriermuseum-frick.ch
- Mineral–Museum Uri, Seedorf: www.mineralienfreund.ch/mineralienmuseum
- Museum Diorama Einsiedeln: www.diorama.ch/pages/de/mineralien.php
- The virtual prospector-museum Kristalle.ch: www.kristalle.ch
- Mineral-Foundation André Gorsatt: www.andre-gorsatt.ch
- The online Mineral-Atlas: www.mineralienatlas.de
- Globally collected mineral-data: www.mindat.org
- Swiss Federal Office for Topography, Wabern (BE): www.swisstopo.ch
- Topographic and geological maps and GIS-data: map.geo.admin.ch
- Geological data-viewer: www.geologieviewer.ch
- Geologieportal: www.geologieportal.ch
- Platform Geosciences of the Academy of Natural Sciences (SCNAT)
- Institute for Geology of Berne University: www.geo.unibe.ch
- Department of Earth Sciences of the Swiss Federal Technical institute, ETH Zurich: www.erdw.ethz.ch
- Erlebnis Geologie (excursions, geo-walks, talks, museums with geological exhibits, mines open to the public): www.erlebnis-geologie.ch
Publications:
- Der Schweizer Strahler: magazine of the Swiss Association for Prospectors and Collectors of Minerals and Fossils (SVSMF). A yearly subscription costs CHF 65.– and comes highly recommended. Published quarterly in three languages German/French/Italian.
In issue 2/2019 is an extensive report on one of our crystal pockets in the Lötschental: Schweizer Strahler - Lapis: German magazine for everyone interested in minerals, with great special editions on specific prospecting regions.
- Urner Mineralienfreund: https://www.mineralienfreund.ch/mineralienfreund/
- Geopanorama (Publication of Swiss Earth Sciences)
- Schweizerische mineralogische und petrographische Mitteilungen: Bulletin suisse de minéralogie et pétrographie
- Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiae
- E-Periodica: Swiss journals online
