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.

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.

SAN FILIPPO MINE, MONTE AMIATA, SIENA, ITALY - An old timer. This specimen is from an old collection. It has been found in 1978 and shows a large nodule of cinnabar (6x6 cm in size) with a great abundance of tiny/micro crystals. There are also small schalenoedric crystals of calcite. Quite heavy rock ! overall size is 12x10x7 cm. Old labels also.

Cozzodisi mine, Agrigento, Sicily - Nice, even if small in size, this rock shows 4 terminated crystals, the biggest is around 1.2 cm, with a good looking yellow color. Overall size is 5x4x4 cm.

Calagio, Colonnata quarry, Apuane Alps, Carrara, Italy - A dark brown sphalerite crystal shows up on the white marble. The sphalerite is 0.25 cm. Overall size of the specimen is 3.5x2.5x1.5 cm.

Calagio, Colonnata quarry, Apuane Alps, Carrara, Italy - A dark red sphalerite crystal shows up on the white marble. The sphalerite is 0.2 cm. Overall size of the specimen is 3.5x2.5x1 cm.

Calagio, Colonnata quarry, Apuane Alps, Carrara, Italy - A dark brown sphalerite crystal shows up on the white marble. The sphalerite is 0.25 cm. Overall size of the specimen is 3.5x2.5x2 cm.

Calagio, Colonnata quarry, Apuane Alps, Carrara, Italy - A dark brown sphalerite crystal shows up on the white marble. The sphalerite is close to 0.3 cm. Overall size of the specimen is 4.5x2.5x2 cm.

Colonnata quarry, Apuane Alps, Carrara, Italy - This marble specimen hosts a cluster of terminated deep brown/red sphalerite crystals of 0.4 cm nicely nested in an open cavity. The cluster shows nicely on the white marble. Overall size is 4x3.5x2 cm.

Colonnata quarry, Apuane Alps, Carrara, Italy - Terminated deep brown/red sphalerite crystals of 0.3 cm. The crystals are well visible on the 3.5x3x3 cm matrix.