Dosso degli Areti, Lago d'Iseo, Bergamo, Italy - A nice and large crystalline matrix rich in vesuvianite crystals. There a re a lot of crystals well shaped and visible up to 1.7 cm in size. A classic from the Alpine areas of Italy. Overall size is 9x6.5x3 cm.

Khogyani, Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan - A nice specimen with several large andradite crystals up to 1 cm wide with diopside and chlinochlore. Overall size is 4.5x4x4 cm. Weight is 102 gr.

Campomorto Quarry, Pietra Massa Locality, Montalto di Castro, Viterbo Province, Italy - Nice bright white calcite crystals, most of them gemmy, up to 1.5 cm on the edge ! Very nice coating of crystals ! Overall size is 11x9x6 cm. Weight is 850 gr.

Baia Sprie Mine, Baia Sprie, Romania - A sulphide covered matrix with abundant chalcopyrite sphalerite and galena has a pair of black wolframite crystals on top, with two generations of calcite covering. The main crystal is 1.2 cm in size. Woframite was found along with scheelite in the late 1990s - this is quite typical of the habit. The crystals are not that well terminated. Overall size is 5.5x3x2 cm.

ZOGNO MINE, VAL BREMBANA, BERGAMO, ITALY - This mine is very famous for the well shaped violet fluorite cubes that produced in the past. Now the mine is closed. This specimen is from an old collection. The specimen hosts violet fluorite cube of fluorite of 1 cm on the edge and has etching on one corner on the back. The fluorite sits on a carpet of tint waterclear quartz crystals. Overall size is 9x5.5x3.5 cm. Weight is 200 gr.

PIZZO MARCIO, VAL VIGEZZO, NOVARA, ITALY - Light blue beryl var aquamarine of 1 cm in size ! A classic from this italian locality. Overall size is 4.5x4x3 cm. Weight is 72 gr.

Elmwood Mine, Carthage, Smith County, Tennessee, USA - A very nice golden brown terminated crystal of calcite showing the classic scalenohedral habit. There is with a little sphalerite matrix. The terminations are good, though there is a small cleave to the very tip. Super clarity of the calcite ! Overall size is 7.2 × 5.8 × 3.2 cm. Weight is 135 gr

POLLONE MINE, LUCCA, ITALY - A classic from this famous Italian mine. The specimen is composed by crystalline quartx matrix with a well exposed terminated lightly smoky quartz crystal up to 2.7 cm in size. There are some other smaller quartzes with some sulfides coating on some faces. There is also a well defined and terminated white baryte crystal of 1.5 cm in size. Overall size is 6.5x5x4 cm. Weight is 95 gr.

Minerva No. 1 mine, Hardin Co., Illinois, USA - Colorless spiky crystals of calcite measuring to 2.5 cm in height coming off this matrix. Some of the crystals show cleaving. Overall size is 10.5 x 10.0 x 5.0 cm.

Bacino mine, Rio Marina, Isola Elba, Livorno, Italy - Large hematite crystalline specimen ! The whole rock is made by hematite crystals up to 1.5-2 cm on the edge ! There are some damaged crystals along the edges of the specimen. Overall size is 11x10x5.5 cm. Weight is 1.1 kg