Sakavalana pegmatite, located 25 km south of the village of Mandosonoro, SW of Antsirabe, Fianarantsoa province, Madagascar - Terminated bright pink crystal of pezzottaite on matrix. The crystal is 0.3 cm in size and shows well emerging from the book of violet lepidolite. Very nice. Overall size is 4x3.5x2.5 cm

Sakavalana pegmatite, located 25 km south of the village of Mandosonoro, SW of Antsirabe, Fianarantsoa province, Madagascar - On this small pegmatite matrix a perfectly biterminated 0.4 cm pezzottaite crystal shows nicely with its bright pink color ! A nice small rock of 1.7x1.5x1.5 cm

Sakavalana pegmatite, located 25 km south of the village of Mandosonoro, SW of Antsirabe, Fianarantsoa province, Madagascar - Terminated bright pink crystal of pezzottaite of 0.3 cm in size. There are some other smaller pezzottaites in a cavity close to this main crystal. All around albite and some terminated liddicoatites ! overall size is 3.3x2x1.6 cm.

Sakavalana pegmatite, located 25 km south of the village of Mandosonoro, SW of Antsirabe, Fianarantsoa province, Madagascar - Very rich specimen ! There are a lot of pezzottaite crystals up to 0.3 cm and all are nicely located on the large albite crystals. The pezzottaites show a nice bright gemmy pink color. Very esthetitc. Overall size is 4.5x4x3 cm.

N'CHWANENG MINE,KALAHARI, SOUTH AFRICA - Nice cluster of 1-2 mm crystals of this rare Mn mineral. 2x2x1 cm

Imiter distr. Djebel,  Saghro Ouarzazate prov,  Morocco  - Nice piece with a lot of deep and bright red proustite crystals. Nnice color and luster. Overall size is 4x3x2 cm

N'Chwaning Mine, Northern Cape Province, South Africa  - Nice coverage of crystalline rhodocrosite from this well known locality ! The crystals show a nice light pink color and are up to 0.4 cm Nice color and showy ! Overall size is 4x2x1.5 cm

Wessels Mine, North Cape Province, South Africa - This is a beautiful Rhodochrosite specimen from Wessels Mine. This very fine little specimen has a nice pink color. The specimen was trimmed with a trim saw at the bottom. It shows various rhodochroste spheroids and the main one is 0.7 cm in diameter. Real fine specimen from South Africa ! Overall size is 4.5 × 3.5 × 2.8 cm

Tantara mine, Katanga Prov., Dem. Rep. of the Congo, Africa - Super large and showy Shattuckite specimen ! The rock is 9.2x6x2.5 cm in size and shows a lot of spheroids with the classic azure/blue color ! The radial crystallization of the mineral can be seen all along the edges. A super specimen !

TSUMEB - Bright PINK smithsonite crystals cover almost completely this specimen. Their size is up to 2-4 mm and form several clusters of crystals. Real nice 5x2x3.5 cm rock.