Valle Giove mine, Rio Marina, Isola Elba, Livorno, Italy - Large specimen with several bright pyrite pentagonododechahedrons. The crystals are all on hematite crystalline matrix and are up to 2 cm wide ! Some contact on the back of the specimen and minor damages on a small crystal in the front. A nice speciman from a classic locality, nice 10x5.5x3.5 cm

Valle Giove mine, Rio Marina, Isola Elba, Livorno, Italy - There is a 3.5 cm wide pyrite pentagonododecjahedron on this specimen. Nice and large crystal for this 5.5x3.5x3 cm rock

San Piero, Isola Elba, Livorno, Italy - It happens to find nice elbaites hidden inside some cavities. This is one ! There are 5 multicolor elbaites all together in this cavity. The most evident is the one grown on a quartz crystal ! This elbaite is 0.5 cm in size and has close to it an other that is 0.8 cm ! some light pink feldspar complete the picture of the cavity. Nice specimen of 6.5x6x3.8 cm

San Piero, Isola Elba, Livorno, Italy - Large, bright and gemmy petalite crystal. This petalite is among the largest we found in the last 2 years. It is a rare mineral at the Elba pegmatite. It measures 2.2x1.6x1 cm