Grotta d'Oggi, San Piero, Isola Elba, Livorno, Italy - An old and very peculiar specimen since there are several 2-4 mm spessartines located on the faces of the feldspar crystals partly covered by waterclear quartz crystals. Nice specimen of 4.5x2.5x2.5 cm in size

Grotta d'Oggi, San Piero, Isola Elba, Livorno, Italy - Though spessartine rapresent a classic for pegmatite areas, they have not been a frequent finding at isola Elba. Nevertheless this rock from Grotta d'Oggi shows several millimetric spessartines nicely located on the faces of the various orthoclase crystals ! the feldspars are up to 1.6 cm on the edge. The specimen has a 50 years old label that describes as "grossular" the spessartines and misspelled the name of the locality. Very peculiar old label ! Nice old timer of 5x4x3.5 cm

San Piero, Isola Elba, Livorno, Italy - Bright and nice orange in color spessartines are located on the face of this orthoclase. The main spessartine is 0.3 cm in size, bright and no damage. The feldspar is 3 cm on the edge.  Probably from Grotta d'Oggi area. Overall size is 4.5x4x2 cm

San Piero, Isola Elba, Livorno, Italy - Interesting combination specimen. There is a terminated beryl of 0.9x0.8 cm in size nicely located on a feldspar crystal. Close to them there are some bright orange spessartine crystals. The specimen hosts also various albite crystals, some incomplete elbaite crystals and other feldspars up to 2.5 cm on the edge ! in a cavity there is a well defined cluster of green millimetric zircon crystals. Very peculiar rock of 9.5x6.5x4 cm

San Piero, Isola Elba, Livorno, Italy - On a nice grouping of feldspar crystals there are some bright orange spessartine crystals. Spessartine is a rare occurrence on the pegmatite of Elba. The feldspars are up to 1.5-2 cm in size and the spessartine are 0.2-0.3 cm show up on the feldspars. Overall size is 7x4.5x4 cm

SAN PIERO, ISOLA ELBA, LIVORNO, ITALY - It is not so usual to find spessartine but this specimen has a small spessartine among various  quartz and schorl crystals to the size of 0.7 cm. Nice REFERENCE specimen of 5.5x3x3 cm

SAN PIERO, ISOLA ELBA, LIVORNO, ITALY - There are various deep orange/red spessartines on this rock, all nested in the albite coated feldspars. The spessartines are up to 0.4 cm. Nice rock of 5x4x2 cm. 1994 finding.

SAN PIERO, ISOLA ELBA - Spessartite is quite uncommon inside the pegmatites of Isola Elba and the only specimens found were collected while working at the rosina dike in 1994. This specimen is from that finding and shows several quartz and great bright feldspar crystals up to 2.5 cm with half a dozen spessartite crystals close to them. The spessartite show the classic orange color and are up to 0.7 cm ! overall size is 5x7x5 cm.

SAN PIERO, ISOLA ELBA, ITALY - Spessartite has been found inside the pockets of the Elba pegmatites only in few occasions. The last one was in 1994 when the Rosina dike was found and exhausted ! This specimen is from that finding. There is a nicely terminated crystal of 0.4 cm and smaller one close to it. Overall size is 4.5x3x2 cm.

SAN PIERO, ISOLA ELBA, ITALY - The orange color of these spessartines are well visible on the white albite and feldspar matrix. The spessartines are up to 0.5 cm in size. Overall size is 5.5x5x4 cm.