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Italian Minerals for Collectors

A website dedicated to advanced mineral collectors. Lot of specimens from all over the world but greatly dedicated to Italian mineralogy.

I am a mineral collector but also a rock-hunter ! I have been collecting rock from when I was 10 years old.

My area of interest is in pegmatite minerals from Isola Elba, Tuscany, Italy and probably this is the richest website of such kind of specimens !

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ENARGITE

FURTEI, CAGLIARI, ITALY - This sulfide is not so common in Italy. The most recent and best crystals found up to now came from this gold mine, recently operated by an Australian company. There a great…

SCHEELITE

TRAVERSELLA MINE, TORINO, ITALy - Since this mine is no longer open, few specimens of scheelite are easily available. This specimen is from a collection of the early 1970. The rock shows a well…

MALACHITE

SHABA PROVINCE, CONGO - Wonderful specimen made only by crystals ! a lot of cluster of deep green malachite crystals of 0.6-0.8 cm. Most of them form very nice spheroids of 1 cm of diameter. 8x4x2 cm

RHODOCROSITE

Sunnyside Mine, Bonita Peak, Gladstone, Eureka District, San Juan County, Colorado - The Sunnyside Mine produced some very well known Rhodochrosite specimens in its history, along with some attractive…

BARYTE

Elk Creek, Meade Co., South Dakota, USA - A super lustruous specimen with a super barite crystal of 3 cm in size and fully terminated ! The crystal has a great color, hooney-like color, with an…

TANZANITE

Merelani Hills, Arusha Region, Tanzania - A nice large terminated tanzanite crystal showing a nice green color. The crystal is 2.4x2x1.5 cm in size

SMOKY QUARTZ

Argentier glacier, Mont Blanc, France - Very nice and showy specimen with several perfectly terminated smoky qurtz crystals ! The cluster counts 6 main crystals up to 4 cm in size and all with a nice…

PYRITE

Navajun, Spain - Brigth golden pyrite cube 2 cm on the edge shows nicely on matrix ! A classic from Spain. There is a smaller cube, close to 1 cm on the edge still partly included in the matrix. Nice…

BERYL (AQUAMARINE)

Karibib District, Erongo region, Namibia - A superb biterminated beryl var aquamarine 4.8 cm in size ! The color is great and the crystal has a nice blue transparency close to the top. Looking…

BERYL AQUAMARINE

Karibib District, Erongo region, Namibia - A superb biterminated beryl var aquamarine of 4 cm in size stands on a small matrix. The color is a superb light blue and it is really attractive. The beryl…

MALACHITE

SHABA PROVINCE, CONGO - Very bright green malachite specimen ! thousands of acicular crystals compose this rock. A lot of clusters up to 1 cm in size. Very nice 4x3x3 cm.

POLDERVAARTITE

N'CHWANENG MINE,KALAHARI, SOUTH AFRICA - Nice cluster of POLDERVAARTITE. 1-2 mm crystals of this rare Mn mineral.  Overall size is 2x2x1 cm

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