Mineral Details

Campomorto Quarry, Pietra Massa Locality, Montalto di Castro, Viterbo Province, Italy - Nice bright white calcite crystals, most of them gemmy, up to 1.5 cm on the edge ! Very nice coating of crystals ! Overall size is 11x9x6 cm. Weight is 850 gr.

Khogyani, Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan - A nice specimen with several large andradite crystals up to 1 cm wide with diopside and chlinochlore. Overall size is 4.5x4x4 cm. Weight is 102 gr.

POLLONE MINE, LUCCA, ITALY - A classic from this famous Italian mine. The specimen is composed by crystalline quartx matrix with a well exposed terminated lightly smoky quartz crystal up to 2.7 cm in size. There are some other smaller quartzes with some sulfides coating on some faces. There is also a well defined and terminated white baryte crystal of 1.5 cm in size. Overall size is 6.5x5x4 cm. Weight is 95 gr.

Monte Arsiccio Mine, Sant'Anna di Stazzema, Stazzema, Lucca Province, Tuscany, Italy - The new finding from this abandoned mine close to Apuane Alps, Tuscany. This is an uncommonn salt that usually shows in small crystals. From this mine large crystals, often grouped in clusters have been found. This specimen shows Coquimbite crystals forming coverage up to 2.5 cm wide ! crystals are up to 1-1.2 cm in size. There is also a great abunfance of romoerite crystals red in color forming large clusters of crystals up to 3 cm wide and with crystals up to 1.5 cm in size ! The coquimbite 7x5.5x4.5 cm. Weight is 120 gr.

PIZZO MARCIO, VAL VIGEZZO, NOVARA, ITALY - Light blue beryl var aquamarine of 1 cm in size ! A classic from this italian locality. Overall size is 4.5x4x3 cm. Weight is 72 gr.

Dosso degli Areti, Lago d'Iseo, Bergamo, Italy - A nice and large crystalline matrix rich in vesuvianite crystals. There a re a lot of crystals well shaped and visible up to 1.7 cm in size. A classic from the Alpine areas of Italy. Overall size is 9x6.5x3 cm.

Minerva No. 1 mine, Hardin Co., Illinois, USA - Colorless spiky crystals of calcite measuring to 2.5 cm in height coming off this matrix. Some of the crystals show cleaving. Overall size is 10.5 x 10.0 x 5.0 cm.

Elmwood Mine, Carthage, Smith County, Tennessee, USA - A very nice golden brown terminated crystal of calcite showing the classic scalenohedral habit. There is with a little sphalerite matrix. The terminations are good, though there is a small cleave to the very tip. Super clarity of the calcite ! Overall size is 7.2 × 5.8 × 3.2 cm. Weight is 135 gr

Elk Creek, Meade Co., South Dakota, USA - A super lustruous specimen with a super barite crystal of 3 cm in size and fully terminated ! The crystal has a great color, hooney-like color, with an exceptional transparency, gemmy ! Teh whole surface of the rock is coverd by a carpet of bright yello calcite crystals ! overall size is 10x6.5x4.5 cm. Weight is 200 gr.

Elk Creek, Meade Co., South Dakota, USA - A very nice and superb barite specimen. The rock host 3 fully terminated barite crystals to the size of 2.5 cm with a wonderful color and transparency ! The crystals show a great honey color and are almost gemmy ! on the left, the specimen shows a coating of bright yello calcite crystals. Overall size is 5.5x5.5x5.5 cm. Weight is 140 gr.