Monteponi mine, Carbonia-Iglesias Province, sardegna, Italy - Very nice off-matrix cerussite specimen of 3.5x1.5x1 cm in size. Classic striated crystal. From an old collection if the 70ies.

ABBADIA SAN SALVATORE MINE, MONTE AMIATA, SIENA, ITALY - A quite large and heavy specimen mostly composed by cinnabar. The whole rock is covered by tiny, brilliant red crystals of cinnabar. Not easy to find such large old timer specimen from this well known locality ! The whole rock is 7.5x6x4 cm in size.

MONTE LABBRO, MONTE AMIATA, SIENA, ITALY - This specimen is from one of the old locations where cinnabar was extracted in ancient times. It is a cinnabar matrix completely covered by tiny micro cinnabar crystals. Quite heavy rock ! Overall size is 7x4x3.5 cm. It comes with old labels. Found in 1960.

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

ABBADIA SAN SALVATORE MINE, MONTE AMIATA, SIENA, ITALY - A heavy cinnabar specimen, with several open cavities with a lot of cinnabar crystals ! The color is bright red, as usual for this species. Overall size is 7.5x4.5x4 cm.

Rogerley mine, Frosterley, Durham Co., England - Very nice and esthetic fluorite specimen ! The rock hosts a number of cubic fluorites showing the classic green color under artificial light that becomes blue under the sunlight ! The main fluorite crystal  is 2.1 cm on the edge and there are several others all around up to 1 cm on the edge ! I count more than 2 dozen crystals ! Among them there are dark black, with metallic luster, galena crystals 1 cm in size ! An old timer since this specimen has been aquired in the 2000 ! it comes with the orihinal label from the mine. Overall size is 5x5x5 cm

BOTTINO MINE, SERAVEZZA, CARRARA, ITALY - This mine was famous for great association of different minerals. From this mine great specimens of acicular boulangerite were found. Nowadays the mine is defunct and this is one of those hystorical and rare to find specimens ! there is a great coverage of boulangerite on qurtzite matrix. Overall size is 8x5x3.5 cm

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

Monteponi mine, Carbonia-Iglesias Province, sardegna, Italy - Greatly terminated offmatrix white cerussite crystal of 4.7x1x0,5 cm in size. This crystal is from a very old collection of the 70ies.

MONTEFICO, RIO MARINA, ISOLA ELBA, ITALY - Cluster of terminated ilvaite crystals. The cluster is the combination of 4 ilvaites up to the size of 3.2 cm in size ! Minimal etching as typical for the species from this locality. Very nice specimen of 3.5x3.2x2.6 cm in size