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

Shigar Valley, Northern Areas, Pakistan - Very nice thumbnail hosting a single gemmy prism of aquamarine attached to the edge of a feldspar/cleavelandite matrix. The aquamarine is 1 cm in size and shows nicely on the white matrix. The crystal is terminated and are visible also the termination on the bottom of the crystal. Overall size is 3.1x2.6x1.7 cm. Weight is 20 gr.

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

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 a great cluster of millimetric crystals well visible on the edge of an open cavity. Overall size is 4x2.5x1.5 cm

Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Otjikoto Region, Namibia - Very nice cerussite crystals are on this specimen . The crystals form clusters up to 2 cm wide and there is some green duftite also. Overall size is 3x2.4x2.3 cm

California, USA - A very nice gold speciemn ! The rock has well visible gold wires emerging from the quartzite matrix ! There is a lot of gold wires here ! The color is bright and the wires are 0.6 cm long ! Very nice and rich specimen !! Overall size is 2.2x2x1.5 cm

Juab Co., Utah, USA - A super thumbnail ! On a small piece of matrix with several topaz crystals, up to 0.5 cm, there is a super biterminated topaz gem crystal 2.5 cm long ! No damage ! In addition there is a great bright black bixbyite crystal close to it. A very esthetic thumbnail of 2.8x1.5x1.3 cm

Sakavalana pegmatite, located 25 km south of the village of Mandosonoro, SW of Antsirabe, Fianarantsoa province, Madagascar - On this small pegmatite matrix a perfectly biterminated 0.4 cm pezzottaite crystal shows nicely with its bright pink color ! A nice small rock of 1.7x1.5x1.5 cm

Sakavalana pegmatite, located 25 km south of the village of Mandosonoro, SW of Antsirabe, Fianarantsoa province, Madagascar - Terminated bright pink crystal of pezzottaite of 0.3 cm in size. There are some other smaller pezzottaites in a cavity close to this main crystal. All around albite and some terminated liddicoatites ! overall size is 3.3x2x1.6 cm.

Darrah I Pech, Chapa Dara District, Kunar Prov., Afghanistan - Nice bright beryl var goshenite of 2.6x2.3x2 cm in size. The goshenite sits on a small matrix and is biterminated.  Overall size is 2.6x2.3x2.4 cm. Weight is 20 gr.