San Piero, Isola Elba, Livorno, Italy - A super bright cluster of cassiterite crystals ! From my personal collection. The cassiterites are undamaged and form a cluster of 0.4 cm wide ! Great shapes and unique crystals ! Very esthetic for the specied from thi locality. Overall size is 3.2x2.6x1.6 cm

Fonte del Prete, San Piero, Isola Elba, Livorno, Italy - A very rare finding from an hystorical locality. There is a quite large apatite crystal for this locality. The apatite is 0.6 cm wide ! It shows fluorescence under UV. It is located close to a couple of terminated quartz crystals. Overall size is 5x5x3.5 cm.

San Piero, Isola Elba, Livorno, Italy - A nicely terminated 1.4 cm long schorl shows on this pegmatite matrix. The rystal is perfectly terminated and shows greatly on this rock. At the base it has a narural contact on the matrix and no damage ! Nice crystal from Elba ! overall size is 3.5x3x2.5 cm

San Silvestro dike, San Piero, Isola Elba, Livorno, Italy - San Silvestro has been one of the oldest pegmatite vein worked at the San Piero area, aftwer the Speranza quarry. Now it is exausted and almost no traces are left of its location. This specimen is from my personal collection. There are 3 perfectly terminated elbaites ! the main crystals are 0.5 cm in size and show a deep brown/green color while the top is light green. The smallest elbaite is located just below the other 2 crystals, with the same aspect. Very nice thumbnail. Great esthetics ! overall size is 2.2x2.2x1.8 cm.