
Klaus-Dieter Bausch
Micromounts; from 1985 concentrated on gold, silver, copper, cuprite (including chalcotrichite), proustite, pyrargyrite, dioptase, bournonite and azurite
Community
The Lithothek lives on its supporters. Here we introduce some of the people whose donations and daily work have helped to build up and expand the collection.

Micromounts; from 1985 concentrated on gold, silver, copper, cuprite (including chalcotrichite), proustite, pyrargyrite, dioptase, bournonite and azurite

Quarries and dumps in the Bergisches Land and the Sauerland; also Norway and Turkey; micromounts

Micromounts, systematic, global approach

Micromounts from all over the world; fossils from the Messel pit

Alpine cleft minerals of the Western and Eastern Alps; parageneses of the deposits of Lavrion, Iceland, the Eifel, the Sauerland and Siegerland, the northern and southern Black Forest, Bavaria and Tyrol
Minerals from all over the world, above all aesthetic small and hand specimens

His donation of around 30,000 identified and labelled micromounts with about 1,500 mineral species in 1999 was the foundation of the Lithothek

Fichtelgebirge, Upper Palatinate (Wölsendorf fluorspar district), Black Forest (Grube Clara), Alpine localities (Rauris, Habachtal, Sulzbach valleys), Untermurbach quarry near Lenggries; more interested in aesthetics than in completeness

The collection of Dr. Heinz Fürnkranz, handed over by Christl Fürnkranz after his death

Fossils from hard coal

Minerals from all over the world, with an emphasis on the mineral class of the halides

Germany and Austria: Leogang, Brixlegg, the Tauern valleys, Bavaria, the Lahn-Dill region, Siegerland; aesthetics before completeness

Deposits he has visited himself; systematics; micromounts from his own finds

Selected localities where one can collect for oneself (Grube Clara, Lavrion, Waidhaus, the Eifel, the Kaiserstuhl); aesthetics and variety of habit

First in the Spessart, then Bavaria, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, Greece (Lavrion) and worldwide; increasingly micromounts; today photography

Began in the Spessart, then Bavaria, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, Greece (Lavrion) and worldwide; special interest in pseudomorphs

Lavrion (Greece) – minerals of the ancient galleries and dumps and slag minerals of the coast; slag minerals from other sources; aesthetic micromounts

Collection of localities and deposits – as far as possible all the minerals of particular places; about 20 trips to the western United States (1984–2000); the Habachtal

Locality collector without specialisation; worldwide swapping contacts in German, English, French and Spanish

Specimens prepared out of the raw material he provided; large parts of the micromount collection of his late friend Heinz Kopsch

Zeolites, above all as hand specimens; Eifel minerals and minerals of volcanic origin; systematics as micromounts
21 profiles