Grotta d'Oggi, San Piero, Isola Elba, Livorno, Italy - A very nice old specimen from the famous Grotta d'Oggi quarry. The specimen is from a finding of the early 1960 in the dumps of the quarry. The rock hosts various terminated elbaites with black termination and a nice red/violet color on the prism. These are classic colors for Grotta dìOggi elbaites ! the crystals are up to 1 cm ! a neat great specimen from Elba pegmatite areas. Overall size is 5.5x4.8x4 cm

Grotta d'Oggi, San Piero, Isola Elba, Livorno, Italy - An old and very peculiar specimen since there are several 2-4 mm spessartines located on the faces of the feldspar crystals partly covered by waterclear quartz crystals. Nice specimen of 4.5x2.5x2.5 cm in size

Forcioni dike, Sant Ilario, Isola Elba, Livorno, Italy - A spectacular specimen from one of the best elbaite findings of the early 90ies. This specimen hosts a perfectly terminated and undamaged multicolor elbaite 1.7 cm in size. The colors are spectacular ! there is an other multicolor elbaite of 1.6 cm on the left ! and a couple of smaller ones are inside the small cavity where the main crystal is located. Lot of other minerals such as lepidolite, ortoclase and albite. A great showy specimen of 7x5.5x5 cm in size

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San Piero, Isola Elba, Livorno, Italy - Bright orange spessartine crystal 0.7 cm wide shows greatly on this rock. Some white quartz crystals are close to the spessartine. This specimen is from a finding of 1994. Overall size is 3x3x2 cm

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