San Silvestro dike, San Piero, Isola Elba, Livorno, Italy - San Silvestro has been one of the oldest pegmatite vein worked at the San Piero area, aftwer the Speranza quarry. Now it is exausted and almost no traces are left of its location. This specimen is from my personal collection. There are 3 perfectly terminated elbaites ! the main crystals are 0.5 cm in size and show a deep brown/green color while the top is light green. The smallest elbaite is located just below the other 2 crystals, with the same aspect. Very nice thumbnail. Great esthetics ! overall size is 2.2x2.2x1.8 cm.

ABBADIA SAN SALVATORE MINE, MONTE AMIATA, SIENA, ITALY - A quite large and heavy specimen mostly composed by cinnabar. The whole rock is covered by tiny, brilliant red crystals of cinnabar. Not easy to find such large old timer specimen from this well known locality ! The whole rock is 7.5x6x4 cm in size.

Bacino mine, Rio Marina, Isola Elba, Livorno, Italy - A super rich specimen from Isola Elba, Italy. This rock hosts a great abundance of terminated bright metallic hematite crystals ! This is a pure classic for any collection ! The hematites are up to 1.5 cm wide and show a great brightness ! there also a lot of 0.3-0.5 cm quartz crystals that emerge among the hematites. A superb classic of 5.5x3.5x3.5 cm

NChwaning II Mine, Kuruman, North Cape Province, South Africa - Very nice and rich specimen of calcite crystals ! The crystal on the back are light pink. In the average the calcites are up to 1 cm and they form nice clusters that emerge from the specimen. The whole specimen shows a very nice fluorescence under UV ! Overall size is 10x8x3 cm.  Weight is 225 gr.

Kimbedi, Mindouli District, Pool Region, Congo (Republic) - Green crystals studded with small balls of yellow mimetite. There are several crystals of dioptase on this rock ! Their size is up to 0.9 cm ! Overall size is 6.5x3.5x2 cm. Weight is 50 gr

Shangbao Mine, Leiyang County, Hunan Province, China - Sharp green, lucent to transparent crystals of fluorite with a hue of grey. They are well defined and mostly perfect. They are lustrous as well and they are showing an indistinct colour zoning. In any case an attractive specimen. Overall size 7.5 × 6.1 × 1.6 cm. Weight is 110 gr

Fu Jian Province, China - Large green/blue cuboctahedral fluorite crystals up to 4 cm wide ! Nice color which is between green and blue, especially in the inner part of the crystals. There are also coating of tiny quartz crystals all around the specimen. Cleavage on the back. Overall size is 8.5x5x4.5 cm. Weight is 300 gr.

Joe Larkin's quarry, Shannapheasteen, Co. Galway, Ireland - Bluish purple semi lustrous translucent cubic crystals to 2.0 cm on matrix. Slight cleaving present, the prominent crystals in very good condition.  6.0 x 5.0 x 2.0 cm

San Piero, Isola Elba, Livorno, Italy - A nicely terminated 1.4 cm long schorl shows on this pegmatite matrix. The rystal is perfectly terminated and shows greatly on this rock. At the base it has a narural contact on the matrix and no damage ! Nice crystal from Elba ! overall size is 3.5x3x2.5 cm

Cavnic Mine, Maramures County, Romania - A pinkish mass of interlocking pale pink flat manganoan calcite crystals partly coated with aggregates of tiny white calcite. The net effect is a mass of striped crystals. On the reverse shows the calcite being included to give a black and white effect. Really interesting piece.  An example of one of the Romanian classics and not often seen. Overall size is 8.6 × 5.9 × 5.2 cm.