Pakistan - There is a large terminated elbaite crystal located close to large quartz crystals. The elbaite shows a dark green color and has indicolite color close to the top. The quartz crystals are up to 4.7 cm in size ! Nice specimen of 5x4x3 cm

Stak Nala, Northern Areas, Pakistan - Well terminated gemmy lustrous elbaite crystal stands on  terminated quartz crystals. No damage to the elbaite ! The crystal shows a green color at the base and perfectly clear close to the top. It is 1 cm in size. Nice specimen of 5x4.5x2.5 cm in size

Minas Gerais, Brazil - A very nice and esthetic specimen ! A quartz point, perfectly terminated hosts a couple of bright green elbaites that emerge from the quartz crystal. A third elbaite is completely frozen inside the quartz. Real nice and peculiar Brazilian specimen of 3.5x2.5x2.5 cm in size. Weight is 20 gr.

San Piero, Isola Elba, Livorno, Italy - It happens to find nice elbaites hidden inside some cavities. This is one ! There are 5 multicolor elbaites all together in this cavity. The most evident is the one grown on a quartz crystal ! This elbaite is 0.5 cm in size and has close to it an other that is 0.8 cm ! some light pink feldspar complete the picture of the cavity. Nice specimen of 6.5x6x3.8 cm

Barra das Salinas, Minas Gerais, Brazil - Very nice biterminated crystal of rubellite ! The crystal is 4.7x1x1 cm in size. The color is red with gemmy aspect ! The crystal is a floater. No damage.

Coronel Murta, Minas Gerais, Brazil - Spectacular terminated crystal of 3.7x1.5x1.5 cm in size. The crystal has a lot of cleavelandite on its faces and show a nice termination ! The color of the crystal are well visible and are from red to green to a light violet close to the top ! real showy !

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

Chamachu, Baltistan, Pakistan - A single crystal of indicolite of 1.9 cm in size emerges from a surround of cleavelandite and presses up against a large book of mica. The indicolite is a deep blue colour with lighter blue colour at the end. The termination is not clean rather a stunted mottled finish. Undamaged. Overall size is 4.3x3x2 cm

PEDERNEIRA, BRAZIL - This specimen is formed by 3 terminated rubellites, being the longest 4x1 cm in size. The color is great ! Red/bright red, as you can see from the photos.

San Piero, Isola Elba, Livorno, Italy - A very esthetic, pristine, elbaite var rubellite of 1.6 cm in size is nicely located on a partial crystal of orthoclase. A real great crystal ! Very nice and showy specimen of 3x1.8x1 cm.