In 2024 I left our house early heading to the west so I could cut through Budapest in the direction of SMAM saving me a little distance in my journey of 1145 km. Halfway through…

When I got to the French side of the Rhine and glided through the motorway my heart pounded like crazy – I was nervous, excited, curious about the experience that was about to c…

Eventhough I started to focus more on the hobby in 2017, in those 6 years until now I did not attend any of the big international mineral shows. Actually, up until 2023 I only a…

I’m a little hesitant to start because my original intention with Rockaholik was to create a „minerals only territory” but as I more and more feel a pull towards physical outdoo…

Have you ever got the itch to get out of the city really bad? Well, it’s not only you. Since April 2022 me and my wife adopted a little doberman and we love her sooo much! Thoug…

I like to think that with the passage of time people only ripen instead of get older. We grow wiser, gain more knowledge and develop in one area of life or another.

For me the time for development has come and I decided to chase more advanced photography skills. This resulted in the purchase of a new camera and I slooooowly adapt and explor…

If you missed the first part of my Romanéchite story read it HERE

Being hooked at the first time I commited to come back to collect more Romanéchite which just happened on another glorious day in February 2021 together with my wonderful counte…

So at this time we’ve written 2020; the (first) year of the „virus”. It was a very weird and unusual time for a lot of reasons. First off, we barely had any mineral shows that c…

On the first weekend of October 2021 one of the biggest Hungarian mineral shows has been held at Budapest in the MOM Sport hall. Dozens of dealers gathered to exhibit their good…

Have you ever thought about the similarities between rocks and people?

There's quite a lot! Well, other than density, lustre, strike, talkativeness… Okey, so there is a world of differences and only some similarities but let’s try to explore a few of them from the relationship point of view:

This’ll be a funny one! At least to me. I just walked through my „studio” pictures from the past and some of them definitely made me laugh, I hope you’ll enjoy this post as well…

In the end of 2019 I've been fortunate enough to get my hands on a wonderful combo specimen of Topaz-Smoky Quartz-Schorl from Klein Spitzkopje, Namibia. It was already great to …

A couple of months ago I started to make experiments how to remove different kind of stains from different mineral associations. I had nice results for most of the specimens I t…

On a beautiful spring day in March 2020 I decided to go to a fairly unknown locality near the wonderful lake Balaton. This location produces interesting geodes which has the sam…