Baia Mare, Maramures, Romania - A classic from this Rumenian locality. There are dozens of terminated quartz crystals up to 1-2 cm in size and among them there are a couple of terminated realgar crystals of 0.5 cm in size ! Neci specimen of 6x4x3 cm

Baia Sprie Mine, Baia Sprie, Romania - Classic cluster of stibnite crystals, undamaged with small transparent baryte crystals at the base. Stibnite crystals are up to 3 cm in size ! Overall size is 5.5x4x3.5 cm

Slyudyanka, Lake Baikal, Irkutskaya Oblast', Prebaikalia, Eastern Siberia, Russian Federation - A 2.2 cm green-blue lustrous apatite crystal associated with some smaller ones on calcite matrix. Lovely glossy crystals with irregular forms. Overall size is 5.3 × 5.8 × 2.4 cm. Ex Paul F Smith collection (old labels)

Fojnica, Central Bosnia Canton, Federation of Bosnia & Herzegovina, Bosnia and Herzegovina - Very nice terminated smoky crystal with hyaline termination 50 mm long. A classic from this locality. Overall size is 4.5x4.5x4 cm. Weight is 75 gr

Hemerdon Bal Open Working, Plympton, Devon, United Kingdom - Very nice light blue scorodite crystals show up in this open cavity. The size is up to 0.3 cm. Wel defined and groupped forming clusters ! Overall size is 5.5x3.8x3.2 cm

San Leone Mine, Assemini, Cagliari Province, Sardinia, Italy - A classic from this mine. This specimen is composed by a cluster of lenticolar calcite crystals to 2.4 cm in size, partly covered by limonite ! There are a lot of crystals ! On the top there is a bright partly gemmy calcite of 1.4 cm wide ! nice specimen of 8.5 × 6.2 × 3 cm. Weight is 200 gr.

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.

CAMPO DI SASSO, BIBBONA, LIVORNO, ITALY - Large specimen with several honey sphalerite crystals up to 1 cm nested among 1-1.5 cm quartz crystals. There are also some stibnite crystals to complete the picture of this rock. Overall size is 10x6x5 cm.

GROTTA D'OGGI, SAN PIERO ISOLA ELBA, LIVORNO, ITALY - The combination of black quartz and beryl is typical at Grotta d'Oggi quarry. This specimen hosts a nicely terminated waterclear beryl of 0.6 cm in size and some 2-4 mm black quartzes, nested in an open cavity. Nice rock of 3.5x3x2 cm

BOTTINO MINE, SERAVEZZA, CARRARA, ITALY - Various nicely terminated and undamaged blenda crystal show greatly on a carpet of siderite, calcite and tiny quartz crystals ! The largest crystal is 0.7 cm in size. Overall size is 6.5x3x1.5 cm