Pollone mine, Valdicastello Carducci, Pietrasanta, Apuan Alps, Lucca Province, Tuscany, Italy - This is a VERY rare, lead sufosalt with moderately large crystals. The color is battleship gray, with a satiny luster. The crystals are foliated in parallel growth, much like mica. This species is not often seen in dealers stocks or even in museums ! This crystal is 1.4x1.1x0.5 cm and shows perfect termination and luster. Super rare specimen.

Pollone mine, Valdicastello Carducci, Pietrasanta, Apuan Alps, Lucca Province, Tuscany, Italy - This is a VERY rare, lead sufosalt with moderately large crystals. The color is battleship gray, with a satiny luster. The crystals are foliated in parallel growth, much like mica. This species is not often seen in dealers stocks or even in museums ! This crystal is 1.2x1.1x0.4 cm and shows nice termination and luster. Super rare specimen.

Pollone mine, Valdicastello Carducci, Pietrasanta, Apuan Alps, Lucca Province, Tuscany, Italy - This is a VERY rare, lead sufosalt with moderately large crystals. The color is battleship gray, with a satiny luster.  This species is not often seen in dealers stocks or even in museums ! This crystal is 1.4x0.9x0.5 cm and shows nice termination and luster. Super rare specimen.

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.

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.

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.

Golconda Pegmatite, Governador Valadares, Minas Gerais, Brazil - An intriguing locality specimen comprising a taco-like habit with sandwiched layers of silver-grey lepidolite and glassy bluish-grey clevelandite with crystals standing out from the face. Attached to the face there are two crystals of tourmaline. The finer of the crystals is quite a gemmy blue-green colour with a sharp termination. The larger section is the same colour: however, it is a section and not terminated. An aesthetic piece of pegmatite crystallisation. Please note this specimen is slightly friable. Overall size is 10.2 × 5 × 4 cm. Weight is 185 gr

Monte Arsiccio Mine, Sant'Anna di Stazzema, Stazzema, Lucca Province, Tuscany, Italy - The new finding from this abandoned mine close to Apuane Alps, Tuscany. This an uncommonn salt that usually shows in small crystals. From this mine large crystals, often grouped in clusters have been found. This specimen shows a large Coquimbite crystal 2x2 cm in size ! very large for the species and for the locality . The color is the classic violet. Overall size is 5x 3 x 2.5 cm. Weight is 30 gr. Mounted in a perqy box.

Pune, Maharashtra, India - Spectacular pentagonite cluster of crystals ! The cluster is 1.8x1.1 cm wide and shows greatly ! The color is the classic blue, the pentagonites are up to 0.5-0.6 cm in size and are well visible in the cluster. There are small stilbite crystals all around. Overall size is 7.3x4x3 cm.

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.