San Piero, Isola Elba, Livorno, Italy - A very rich specimen ! The whole surface of the specimen is entirely covered by hundreds of elbaite crystals ! The color is light brown/amber. Lot of clusters and lot of terminated crystals ! Their size is up to 1-1.3 cm. Overall size is 9.5x8x6.5 cm.

San Piero, Isola Elba, Livorno, Italy - A super specimen with a number of colored elbaites and feldspars ! There are a dozen elbaites nicely located on and among the feldspars. The elbaites show a nice brown color and are up to 0.8 cm in size ! A super showy rock of 5x4.5x4.5 cm

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SANT ILARIO, ISOLA ELBA, ITALY - This specimen is from an exhausted pegmatite vein known as Pastori pocket. Worked in 2004, it produced several nice specimens of elbaite and foitite. This specimen hosts several bright white feldspar crystals up to 1-1.5 cm on the edge and a nice amount of 2-4 mm albite crystals. Inside an open cavity an undamaged cemtimentric elbaite emerges with a consistent amount of foitet on its top ! overall size of this specimen is 11x6.5x5 cm.

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