San Piero, Isola Elba, Livorno, Italy - It happens to find nice elbaites hidden inside some cavities. This is one ! There are 5 multicolor elbaites all together in this cavity. The most evident is the one grown on a quartz crystal ! This elbaite is 0.5 cm in size and has close to it an other that is 0.8 cm ! some light pink feldspar complete the picture of the cavity. Nice specimen of 6.5x6x3.8 cm

San Piero, Isola Elba, Livorno, Italy - Large, bright and gemmy petalite crystal. This petalite is among the largest we found in the last 2 years. It is a rare mineral at the Elba pegmatite. It measures 2.2x1.6x1 cm

San Piero, Isola Elba, Livorno, Italy - Incredibly large ! Close to a large pink feldspar thre is a terminated cassiterite crystal of 0.4 cm in size ! Quite large for the species from this locality ! The feldspar is 2.5 cm on the edge ! Overall size is 4.5x4x3 cm

San Piero, Isola Elba, Livorno, Italy - On the border of an open cavity, there is a terminated bicolor elbaite 0.7 cm long. Inside this cavity a bigger elbaite shows nicely together with some smaller ones ! A nice specimen of 6.5x4.5x3.6 cm