Grotta d'Oggi, San Piero, Isola Elba, Livorno, Italy - Lot of minerals on the same rock ! Though the 1.5 cm long elbaite is incomplete, there are a lot of other uncommon minerals on this rock. Indeed other than to nice and well shaped orthoclases to 1 cm on the edge and quartz up to 1.5 cm, there various groups of bright metallic cassiterites and on several quartz crystals there are a lot of gemmy waterclear bubbles of opal var jalite. Very interesting rock of 7.5x4.5x3.5 cm

SANT ILARIO, ISOLA ELBA, ITALY - This specimen is from an exhausted pegmatite vein known as Pastori pocket. Worked in 2004, it produced several nice specimens of elbaite and foitite. This specimen hosts several bright white feldspar crystals up to 1-1.5 cm on the edge and a nice amount of 2-4 mm albite crystals. Inside an open cavity an undamaged cemtimentric elbaite emerges with a consistent amount of foitet on its top ! overall size of this specimen is 11x6.5x5 cm.

Grotta d'Oggi, San Piero, Isola Elba, Livorno, Italy - Though spessartine rapresent a classic for pegmatite areas, they have not been a frequent finding at isola Elba. Nevertheless this rock from Grotta d'Oggi shows several millimetric spessartines nicely located on the faces of the various orthoclase crystals ! the feldspars are up to 1.6 cm on the edge. The specimen has a 50 years old label that describes as "grossular" the spessartines and misspelled the name of the locality. Very peculiar old label ! Nice old timer of 5x4x3.5 cm

SAN PIERO, ISOLA ELBA, LIVORNO, ITALY - Among the centimetric feldspars and quartz crystals there is a lightpink/grey morganite. The morganite is located close to a quartz crystal and shows a perfect tabular termination. The crystal is 4 mm wide and emerges for 0.5 cm out of the crowded crystalline area where is located. There are a lot of feldspars around, up to 1.5-1.8 cm on the edge. Overall size is 7x7x6.5 cm.