Fojnica, Central Bosnia Canton, Federation of Bosnia & Herzegovina, Bosnia and Herzegovina - Very nice terminated smoky crystal with hyaline termination 50 mm long. A classic from this locality. Overall size is 4.5x4.5x4 cm. Weight is 75 gr

San Piero, Isola Elba, Livorno, Tuscany, Italy - A quite large specimen with a lot of acicular elbaites, hundreds crystals !! The great part of the crystals are located close to some terminated quartz crystals and are up to 0.3-1 cm in size. The color is from light to dark green. There are also several terminated orthoclases up to 1.5 cm on the edge. A classic from Isola Elba, Italy. Overall size is 10x6x3 cm. Weight is 265 gr.

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

Bacino mine, Rio Marina, Isola Elba, Livorno, Italy - Nice bright and iridescent hematite crystals to 0.8-1 cm in size show among quartz crystals on an hematite matrix. A classic from Isola Elba iron mines ! Showy specimen of 3.5x2x2 cm

Qiaojia, Zhaotong Prefecture,Yunnan Province, China - Very nice well shape undamaged babingtonite crystal of 0.9 cm on the edge ! The crystal is nicely located on a coating of prhenite, light green in color. There is an othe 0.5 cm crystal on the right of the rock and many tiny black ones dispersed on the prhenite. On the other side the rock has a a nice amount of quartz crystals with prhenite . Overall size is 5x4.8x3 cm. Weight is 110 gr.

Gorgolinato, Sant Ilario, Isola Elba, Livorno, Italy - An old classic. Gorgolinato is an old area that produced a number of fine schorl and beryl crystals. This specimen hosts some schorl crystal, being the main one 1cm in size and all located on the top of some feldspars and quartz crystals. Nice rock of 4.5x4x2 cm

Gorgolinato, Sant Ilario, Isola Elba, Livorno, Italy - An old classic. Gorgolinato is an old area that produced a number of fine schorl and beryl crystals. This specimen hosts several bright terminated schorls up to 0.5 cm all around various quartz and feldspars. Nice rock of 3.5x3x2 cm

Fojnica, Central Bosnia Canton, Federation of Bosnia & Herzegovina, Bosnia and Herzegovina - Group of crystals with smoky color zoned with crystal larger than 6 cm  on a chlorite base. Overall size is 10x8x6 cm. Weight is 480 gr

San Piero, Isola Elba, Livorno, Italy - An old specimen from the San Piero area. The rock hosts a well terminated multicolor elbaite of 1 cm  in size ! Rare finding ! The elbaite shows green, light green and pink colors close to the top ! The elbaite is nicely nested close to a feldspar of about 4 cm on the edge ! several quartz crystals around. Overall size is 5.5x5x3 cm

Fengjiashan Mine, Daye Co., Hubei Province, China - Attractive pink crystallized in a site covering an area approximately 3.0 x 3.0 cm in size nice on the front side of a 5.0 x 5.0 x 4.0 cm crystallized calcite matrix. In good condition as seen with minimal micro-chipping, this is richly crystallized for the species. Brown micro hubeite present as well. Sits beautifully by itself for display, this upon a sawn base. Overall size is 5.0 x 5.0 x 4.0 cm. Weight is 88 gr