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

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.

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.