San Piero, Isola Elba, Livorno, Italy - Greatly terminated elbaite crystal nicely located on orthoclase small piece of matrix. The crystal shows greatly with nice change of color close to the top where it is with a light violet. The crystal is 1.7 cm in size !

San Piero, Isola Elba, Livorno, Italy - This specimen shows an open pegmatite cavity with a lot of schorl crystals, many of them are terminated. The schorl are up to 0.5 cm. Classically, there are several orthoclases, bright white and on one of them there is a 0.9 cm beryl, terminated and waterclear. Beryls are usually coupled with schorl at Isola Elba. The orthoclases are 1 cm on the edge. Overall size is 8.5x7x5 cm.

San Piero, Isola Elba, Livorno, Italy - A super combination specimen ! This specimen hosts 3 well shaped terminated elbaites with a nice yellow color at the base. Their size is up to 1 cm. One of them has the top termination partly joint with a small light pink beryl var morganite, around 0.4 cm in size, biterminated. Not so common to find ! overall size is 7x6.5x4 cm

Bacino mine, Rio Marina, Isola Elba, Livorno, Italy - Very nice classic hematite crystals on hematite matrix. The hematite crystals ar up to 2 cm in size ! Classic metalli luster. There are almost 2 dozen crystals here ! Overall size is 5x4x4 cm. Weight is 160 gr.