FILONE DEI PASTORI, SANT ILARIO, ISOLA ELBA, LIVORNO, ITALY - This locality has been worked in 2004 and now is exhausted. It produced interesting specimens, such as helvite and morganite crystals. This specimen hosts a terminated bicolor elbaite of 0.6 cm. There is an other similar elbaite partly hidden below a quartz crystal. All around there various quartz and feldspar crystals. Overall size is 5x4x3 cm.

SAN PIERO, ISOLA ELBA, LIVORNO, ITALY - Nice reference specimen from the pegmatite areas of Isola Elba, Italy ! The specimen has some tiny (2-3 mm) elbaites located on quartz and orthoclase crystals. The feldspars are up to 1 cm on the edge. Overall size is 3.5x3x2.5 cm

Grotta d'Oggi, San Piero, Isola Elba, Livorno, Italy - An old specimen from a german collection. This specimen is characterized by a biterminated quartz crystal of 2 cm in length with a lot of albite cluster all around it and among them there are a couple of perfectly terminated multicolor elbaites up to 0.6 cm in size. There are also some brown millimetric microlites, beryls dispersed among the albites and the books of cleavelandite. Very nice old timer of 5x4x2.5 cm.

San Piero, Isola Elba, Livorno, Italy - Among the most rare tourmalines found in the pockets of the pegmatites of Isola Elba there is moor's head elbaites. We had been lucky this time and we got 2 perfectly terminated acroites with such Moor's head ! very nice terminated crystals of 1 cm in size nicely located in an open cavity close to a white feldspar crystal of 2 cm in size. Nice rock of 7x7x4 cm in size