Valle Giove mine, Rio Marina, Isola Elba, Livorno, Italy - Large specimen with several bright pyrite pentagonododechahedrons. The crystals are all on hematite crystalline matrix and are up to 2 cm wide ! Some contact on the back of the specimen and minor damages on a small crystal in the front. A nice speciman from a classic locality, nice 10x5.5x3.5 cm

Colonnata quarry, Apuane Alps, Carrara, Italy - A bright yellow sulfur crystal of 1x1 cm in size shows on the top of this marble specimen ! A very nice crystal, terminated. Rare to find such kind of crystals. Overall size is 7x4.5x3.5 cm.

Valle Giove mine, Rio Marina, Isola Elba, Livorno, Italy - There is a 3.5 cm wide pyrite pentagonododecjahedron on this specimen. Nice and large crystal for this 5.5x3.5x3 cm rock

LA FACCIATA QUARRY, APUANE ALPS, CARRARA, ITALY - Classic specimen from Apuane Alps ! There is a biterminates quartz crystals of 0.9 cm in size ! There are some other 2-3  mm quartz crystals around a nd a lot of tiny dolomite crystals. Overall size is 6.5x6x5 cm.

GIUMENTARO MINE, ENNA, SICILY, Italy - A classic from Sicily sulfur mines. Giumentro was one of the most prolific for sulfura and for celestine crystals. This specimen hosts large celestine crystals up to 3 cm. The whole specimen is a cluster of crystals. Overall size is 8x5x4.5 cm.

San Piero, Isola Elba, Livorno, Italy - It happens to find nice elbaites hidden inside some cavities. This is one ! There are 5 multicolor elbaites all together in this cavity. The most evident is the one grown on a quartz crystal ! This elbaite is 0.5 cm in size and has close to it an other that is 0.8 cm ! some light pink feldspar complete the picture of the cavity. Nice specimen of 6.5x6x3.8 cm

Trepča, Kosovska Mitrovica, Kosovo - A great real esthetic specimen with well defined bright arsenopyrite crystals surrounded by quartz crystals ! There are also some sphalerite enclosed and rhodochrosite. A real nice specimen rare to find ! Overall size is 3.8 × 3 × 2.3 cm. Weight is 25 gr

MONTEFICO, RIO MARINA, ISOLA ELBA, ITALY - Small but nicely terminated ilvaite crystal. The crystal shows the classic bright black color and is 1.3x1x1 cm in size

Colle d'Orano, Isola Elba, Livorno, Italy - Lot of deep green epidote crystals up to 0.3-0.4 cm cover this rock. Nice specimen of 4x3.5x2 cm

San Piero, Isola Elba, Livorno, Italy - Large, bright and gemmy petalite crystal. This petalite is among the largest we found in the last 2 years. It is a rare mineral at the Elba pegmatite. It measures 2.2x1.6x1 cm