Dosso degli Areti, Lago d'Iseo, Bergamo, Italy - A nice and large crystalline matrix rich in vesuvianite crystals. There a re a lot of crystals well shaped and visible up to 1.7 cm in size. A classic from the Alpine areas of Italy. Overall size is 9x6.5x3 cm.

Campomorto Quarry, Pietra Massa Locality, Montalto di Castro, Viterbo Province, Italy - Nice bright white calcite crystals, most of them gemmy, up to 1.5 cm on the edge ! Very nice coating of crystals ! Overall size is 11x9x6 cm. Weight is 850 gr.

Baia Sprie Mine, Baia Sprie, Romania - A sulphide covered matrix with abundant chalcopyrite sphalerite and galena has a pair of black wolframite crystals on top, with two generations of calcite covering. The main crystal is 1.2 cm in size. Woframite was found along with scheelite in the late 1990s - this is quite typical of the habit. The crystals are not that well terminated. Overall size is 5.5x3x2 cm.

Cava di Melis, Longobucco, Cosenza, Calabria, Italy - The recent new find of cordierite from Italy ! Probably the best and better defined crystals of cordierite vere found in Italy. This specimen hosts a perfectly terminated prismatic cordierite of 0.5 cm in size. The color is green/brown for a coating of pinite. Very nice ! overall size is 3x2.5x2.5 cm. Weight is 30 gr.

Perticara mine, Perticara Italy - The contrast of the yellow on the black is really showy. These crystals are in the range of 0.8 cm, unfortunately the one on the right is partially complete but the other is perfect. There is a smaller one on the left. Real showy.

FORCIONI DIKE, SANT ILARIO, ISOLA ELBA, ITALY - Colorless beryls (goshenite) are nested among small feldspars on this specimen from the Forcioni area. Their size is up to 0.8 cm. Overall size is 4x2.5x2.5 cm

Le Cetine mine, Siena, Italy - A rare mineral from the type locality. Onoratoite derves from stibnite oxidation and shows as groups of white acicular crystals. This rock has several clusters of millimetric crystals nicely dispersed on an open cavity. Overall size is 3x3x2.2 cm

Temperino mine, Campiglia Marittima, Grosseto, Italy - Nice specimen with a great coverage of  quartz crystals. Dispersed among the quartzes there are variious ilvaite crystals up to the size of 1 cm. There is also a super golden crystal of chalcopyrite of 1 cm in size ! Overall size is 11x6x5 cm

Bacino mine, Rio Marina, Isola Elba, Livorno, Italy - Bright amount of hematite crystals cover this rock ! The crystals are up yo 1.5 cm in size ! A classic from Italy. Overall size is 8x4x3.5 cm

Valle Giove mine, Rio Marina, Isola Elba, Livorno, Italy - Bright golden pentagonododecahedron crystals compose this specimen. The biggest crystal is 3 cm in diameter ! Smaller up to 1.5 cm in size are at its base with some hematite matrix. Real nice classic specimen from the iron ore of Elba ! overall size is 4.5x3.5x3.5 cm