Cruzeiro mine, Sao Jose Safian City, Minas gerais, Brazil - Greatly terminated elbaite. The crystal shows pink and red colors. The size is 2x0.3x0.3 cm. Weight is close to 2 gr.

Cruzeiro mine, Sao Jose Safian City, Minas Gerais, Brazil - Greatly terminated elbaite. The crystal shows pink and red colors. The size is 2.4x0.5x0.4 cm. Weight is around 2 gr.

Stak Nala, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan - An esthetic well terminated gemmy elbaite in combination with cleavelandite. The crystal is 2 cm long and it is perfectly terminated and shows a greeen color in the lower part that becomes lighter close to the top.  Great specimen of 2.1 × 1.9 × 1.1 cm.

Stak Nala, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan - An aesthetic well terminated gemmy elbaite in combination with minor microlite & cleavelandite. The elbaite is 2.3 cm long and is perfectly terminated. The cleavelandite crystals are 1-1.3 cm wide and on some of these crystals there are some millimetric light brown microlites. Overall size is 2.6 × 2.2 × 1.1 cm

Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Otjikoto Region, Namibia - Nice bright green dioptase crystals of 0.3-0.6 cm in size stand on white dolomite crystals. Overall size is 3x3x2 cm

Rubtsovskiy mine, Altai, Russia - Cluster of bright  terminated cuprite crystals up to 1.5 cm on the edge. There are half a dozen crystals. Minimal natural etching on, as typical for this species. Overall size is 2x 1.6x1.6 cm

Rubtsovskiy mine, Altai, Russia - Clusterr of bright  terminated cuprite crystals up to 1-1.2 cm on the edge. I count more than a dozen crystals !  Overall size is 3x2.5x2 cm

Rubtsovskiy mine, Altai, Russia - Bright  terminated cuprite crystals up to 1.4 cm on the edge. Minimal natural etching on, as typical for this species. Overall size is  1.5x1.4x1 cm

Rubtsovskiy mine, Altai, Russia - Bright  terminated cuprite crystals up to 2 cm on the edge. Minimal natural etching on, as typical for this species. Overall size is 2.4x2.2x1.8 cm

AMBATONDRARAKA, ALOTRA LAKE, MADAGASCAR - Nice yellow crysoberyl crystal of 1 cm on the edge. The crystal shows a nice yellow color ! Overall size is 2.3x2.2x2.2 cm