Beni Bouzra, Chefchaouen Province, Tanger-Tetouan-Al Hoceima Region, Morocco - Morocco has recently offered a nice variety of elbaite crystals on matrix. Here we have a specimen hosting several red elbaites, var rubellite. The main one is terminated and 1.4 cm in size ! all around there are several other elbaites and some of them are terminated or some other recrystallized. Nice quartz points also, up to 1.5-2 cm in size and biterminated. There is hyalite coating on some crystals. Overall size is 5.8x3.5x3.5 cm. Weight is 80 gr.

Cava di Melis, Longobucco, Cosenza, Calabria, Italy - The recent new find of cordierite from Italy ! The best and better defined crystals of cordierite ever found in Italy. This specimen hosts a perfectly terminated prismatic cordierite of 0.7 cm in size. The color is green/brown for a coating of pinite. Very nice ! overall size is 3x3x2.5 cm. Weight is 30 gr.

Siele Mine, Piancastagnaio, Siena Province, Tuscany, Italy - Top fine classic sample with red"strawberry" of cinnabar up to 17 mm diameter on sandstone matrix. Not easy to find ! Overall size is 9 × 5.5 × 2 cm. Weight is 125 gr.

Jalgoan Quarries, Maharashtra, India - Large fairly well-isolated crystals of blue-grey apophyllite are stacked up on a matrix of basalt amygdale covered with smaller crystals of apophyllite with a ligth pinkish color. Apophyllites are up to 2.3 cm in size.Overall size is 7 × 4 × 5 cm. Weight is 140 gr

Goboboseb Mountains, Brandberg Area, Erongo, Namibia - Very nice and well defined amethyst quartz shepter ! The amethys crystal has a nice color. It is biterminated and sits on a smoky quartz ! There are an other couple of quartz crystals at the base. The full length of the shepter is 4.7 cm and the amethyst is 2,8 cm in size. Overall size of the rock is  5.5x3x3 cm. Weight is 35 gr.