San Piero, Isola Elba, Livorno, Italy - A very rich specimen ! The whole surface of the specimen is entirely covered by hundreds of elbaite crystals ! The color is light brown/amber. Lot of clusters and lot of terminated crystals ! Their size is up to 1-1.3 cm. Overall size is 9.5x8x6.5 cm.

San Piero, Isola Elba, Livorno, Italy - Greatly terminated elbaite crystal nicely located on orthoclase small piece of matrix. The crystal shows greatly with nice change of color close to the top where it is with a light violet. The crystal is 1.7 cm in size !

San Piero, Isola Elba, Livorno, Italy - A super combination specimen ! This specimen hosts 3 well shaped terminated elbaites with a nice yellow color at the base. Their size is up to 1 cm. One of them has the top termination partly joint with a small light pink beryl var morganite, around 0.4 cm in size, biterminated. Not so common to find ! overall size is 7x6.5x4 cm

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.

Furtei mine, Cagliari, Italy - Nice specimen with several enargite crystals grouped in an open cavity. The crystals are well terminated and up to 0.4-0.6 cm. There is also a nice coating of millimetric pyrite crystals all around ! Overall size is 7x6.5x4.5 cm

Varaita Valley, Cuneo Province, Piedmont, Italy - Very fine epidote crystals up to 1.5 cm. on a white base of albite crystals. The green of the epidotes are a showy view on the white albite coating of crystals ! the albites are up to 0.5-0.8 cm. An excellent example of alpine epidote association. Overall size is 9 × 4 × 2.55 cm

Panasqueira Mine, Beira Baixa, Portugal - The whole specimn is composed by crystalline ferberite ! The ferberites are up to 1-1.5 cm and there are several cluster of siderite alla around and some millimetric apatite. Overall size is 4.5x4.5x2.5 cm

Panasqueira, Covilha, Castelo Branco District, Portugal - Glassy translucent tabular green fluorapatite crystals to 3.0 cm in size over the top of a 7.5 x 6.0 x 3.5 cm matrix. Some chipping as seen. Great specimen !

Asturias, Spain - A lot of cubic crystals of fluorite cover this specimen ! The whole rock is composed by fluorite that shows also with a lot of cubic crystals of 1 cm on the edge. As typical, most of the cubes show the "rounded" edge ! Very nice rock of 8x4.5x4 cm

La Collada Mine, Asturias, Spain - This is a very attractive and beautiful specimen. Copy of the highest quality of this famous mine, with well-defined crystals. It has unsurpassed color and brightness. The main crystal is 1.6 cm on the edge. Collected 2012. Overall size is 3.6x3.5x2.3 cm