rohstoffmesse münchen / precious metals fair munich / 2025

after the corona break and 1 year some special event without the usual masses of private investors the old precious metals fair aka edelmetallmesse aka is back in town. unfortunately, extremely badly organized, so the most investors even did not knew there is a show and the very few who knew have had extreme difficulties to find the entry to the 'kleine olympiahalle' located below green lawn as there was not a single poster or sign outside the hall in the whole olympiapark area. well, i would guess we've had just 10% of the usual crowd out there. it is really sad for the attended mining companies who pay the prize for a booth there and then have almost no visitors ... 

i was there for 2-3 hours, met some old friends, presented that badly promoted event to my father who visits me in munich and bought few more junior mining shares next week:

• MMG ~ metallic minerals corp. ~ recommendation of my long time investment buddy, axino's CEO wolfgang seybold. let's start a small position and watch its development ~ price per share incl. broker's fee approx 0.38 cad
• AGI ~ alamos gold ~ a quite profitable price per share incl. broker's fee approx 49.5 cad
• PINN ~ pinnacle silver and gold ~ i like its CEO robert archer. he was the former CEO of great panther silver till 2017, later a board member and thus co-responsible for its bankruptcy/CCAA in 2022. great panther was one of my quite big silver mining positions and belongs to my top 3 failures up to date (to make a long sad story short: the new CEO invested in a gold mine in brasil and it went wrong). btw, the up to date performance of pinnacle (former newrange) i've bought 2 years ago is a catastrophy as well. for some reason i wanted to increase my stake to a round number of shares and average down my price per share down ~ price per share incl. broker's fee approx 0.124 cad
• GMX ~ globex mining ~ i like the CEO jack stoch and the globex guys a lot even if the share price of this debt free company with huge portfolio of small mining properties does not develop very good (lower than most mining indexes, i suppose) ~ price per share incl. broker's fee approx 1.6 cad
• PTX ~ ptx metals ~ i spoke to its CEO for very short time. i didnt wait for any info abt it and told i'll look up the company on the internet later .... i've took his bussinss card ... and just out of good mood decided to start a very small position and watch its development in my portfolio ~ price per share incl. broker's fee approx 0.103 cad
• SVE ~ silver one ~ price per share incl. broker's fee approx 0.382 cad
• SVRS ~ silver storm mining ~ price per share incl. broker's fee approx 0.26 cad
• QIM ~ quimbaya gold ~ canadian gold explorer with projects in colombia ~ price per share incl. broker's fee approx 0.88 cad
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•    ---  i've minimaly increased my existing positions in u.s. tech stocks ---
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• AMZN ~ amazon ~ i've bought it just by mistake. i was thinking about google and he stock prices were quite similar 😄 ~ price per share incl. broker's fee approx 221.7 usd
• GOOGL ~ google aka alphabet ~ price per share incl. broker's fee approx 250.5 usd
• AVGO ~ broadcom inc. ~ price per share incl. broker's fee approx 241 usd
• POET ~ poet technologies ~ a new investment for me ~ some optical modules for AI and hyperscale computing centers ~ price per share incl. broker's fee approx 8.77 usd
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•    --- end of shopping fever ---
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the main (and my only) picture about this years' 

 precious metals fair in munich in  october 2025

olympiapark / olympiazentrum in munich (münchen)

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benediktenwand, 1800m, BY

benediktenwand 1800m aka benewand is accessible from three sites, we've decided to go the hiker's path from benediktbeuern, tutzinger hütte 13xx m,  my 78 years old father ... unfortunately, we have seen no capricorns / ibexes today,,,, 

benediktenwand 1800m

two of us

on the road

more pictures (later) here.

mallorca, ES

what a wonderful mobil work opportunity from the spanish holiday island mallorca.

i used to work 1, 2 or even 3 weeks a year from premantura (istria, HR) in a 2 room appartment the last few years. this time we have decided to try the hotel cala fornells close to peguera (sometimes paguera) in mallorca, spain, ES. as my wife was already 3 times in that hotel few years ago, we knew the mobile work would function fine ...

despite plenty of work, there is still some vaccation aspect here as i can go to swim in the sea before breakfast, in my lunch break, after work ... i couldnt be all day at the beach, anyway. and yes, there is a weekend too! 

today (saturday) we've just visited a small beach in  forest area just 15 minutes away from our hotel. we could swim nicely as there were no motor boats almost all the time, i tried out my old snorkeling equipment and after that collected 2 bags of (mostly plastic) trash ... later rested a lot ... so a really nice day for a nature&environment pretection activist, wouldnt you say? well, for tomorrow we have booked an organized day trip to the capitol palma and to the small hills in the northwest of the island around valldemossa ... and the next werkend we've had a rental car and visited the unesco heritage mountains of serra de tramuntana and its hills + cliffs + cities soller, sa calobra, ....

our stops this time: 

• cala fornells bay
• calo del monjo bay
• peguera / paguera
• valldemossa (best known as the stay for the french baroness george sand and her lover, the polish componist frederik chopin)
• santa maria del cami (nothing special out there. we have just visited a weekly market, i liked more its church)
• aristocratic family's rural house / castle
• (there was the rafael 'rafa' nadal's tennis academy in manacor, but we've just drove beside it)
• porto cristo caves
• palma, the capital of mallorca & the baleares islands. btw, that name comes from the sligshot weapon as the mallorquines were masters of throwing small stones with their ropes at their enemies ...
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• puerto andratx (or often porto andratx(
• sant elm
• mirador d'en ricardo roca (a fast food restaurant with fantastisch view over the cliffs of the west mallorca's coast
• deia 
• port de soller
• lighthouse far des cap gros
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• gorg blau (the almost empty water reservoir)
• the 682m high pass coll dels reis
• soller
• sa calobra + torrent de pareis (seasonal river) in a beautiful gorge in the serra tramuntana mountains, mallorca's unesco cultural heritage. the highest peak is the puig major 1445m. unfortunately, this peak is not accessible for the public due to some stupid military zone / radio transmission station on its top.
• lluc monastery

hotel cala fornells 

mallorca's highest peak puig major, 1445 m, is not accessible 

to the public due to some military radio equipment up there 

the road to sa calobra, serra tramuntana, unesco heritage

sa calobra, serra tramuntana, unesco heritage

more pictures (soon) here 😀

peitlerkofel 2875m + neustift abbey, IT

as every august for 6 or 7 years, my wife provides a seminar for teachers in neustift abbey (kloster neustift, abbazia novacella) in south tirol (südtirol), italy, IT. my highlight this year was the hiking tour around the peitlerkofel mountain (2875m) in the dolomiti area of the italian alps.

i'll most likely upload pictures + insights later ... much later ... most likely in the cold + rainy autumn evenings, okay?

early morning at peitlerkofel 2875m

after 5 houtrs we've reached the end of our walk around the peitlerkofel

neustift abbey (kloster neustift, abbazia novacella)

the engelsburg (angels' castle) at the neustift monastery

more pictures later here.

traunsee, ebensee, langbathsee, wolfgangsee - AT

traunsee, ebensee, langbathsee, wolfgangsee ~ oberösterreich (upper austria), AT. 

btw, which of these four 'lakes' (see) is not a lake? ... got it? well, ebensee is just a name of the village at in southernmost part of lake traunsee that means here is everything flat ('eben') 😆

btw, the lake traunsee build by the traun river is the deepest lake (completely located) in austria with 191m.

i'll most likely upload pictures + insights later ... much later ... most likely in the cold + rainy autumn evenings, okay?

lake langbathsee

view from our plain & fine guesthouse 'gasthof roitner' in ebensee

the village / small city of ebensee

lake traunsee as seen from ebensee

lake wolfgangsee, view to the north

lake wolfgangsee, view to the south

more pictures later here.

castle plumlov, CZ

what a nice stop over in plumlov (plumenau, plumau, blumenau) a historical hotel villa at an artificial lake plumlov in moravia, czech republic, CZ ... we've met a friend of mine petr who lives in nearby mohelnice (müglitz), we've had a romantic dinner at the lake side terrace in our almost empty hotel (the weather was not good enough for swimming) ... .

i'll most likely upload pictures + insights later ... much later ... most likely in the cold + rainy autumn evenings, okay?

castle plumlov above the fishpond

pirates at the fishpond 😄

castle plumlov

hotel plumlov at the reservoir dam

city of mikulov (nikolsburg), moravia, CZ

more pictures later here.