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

Barra das Salinas, Minas Gerais, Brazil - Very nice biterminated crystal of rubellite ! The crystal is 4.7x1x1 cm in size. The color is red with gemmy aspect ! The crystal is a floater. No damage.

Coronel Murta, Minas Gerais, Brazil - Spectacular terminated crystal of 3.7x1.5x1.5 cm in size. The crystal has a lot of cleavelandite on its faces and show a nice termination ! The color of the crystal are well visible and are from red to green to a light violet close to the top ! real showy !

Chamachu, Baltistan, Pakistan - A single crystal of indicolite of 1.9 cm in size emerges from a surround of cleavelandite and presses up against a large book of mica. The indicolite is a deep blue colour with lighter blue colour at the end. The termination is not clean rather a stunted mottled finish. Undamaged. Overall size is 4.3x3x2 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.

Minas gerais, Brazil - Nice terminated green tourmaline shows up on a partial feldspar crystal. The tourmaline is 1 cm in size. Overall size is 4.5x4x1.3 cm

Ambararata, Madagascar - Nice biterminated liddicoatite of 2.6 cm in size with a smaller biterminated liddicoatite on one of the lateral faces. The small liddicoatite is 0.6 cm in size. The color is dark brown and there is a light color close to the top. An opaque quartz point is on the back of the main liddicoatite. Real nice specimen of 2.6x2.1x1.5 cm

Manapa, Madagascar - Great terminated liddicoatite ! The crystal is perfectly terminated and shows a great reddish color. All the edges shows greatly ! Overall size is 3x2x.8x2 cm.

200Manapa, Madagascar - Great terminated liddicoatite ! The crystal is perfectly terminated and shows a great dark red color. All the edges shows greatly ! The size of the crystal is 3x2.2x2 cm ! There is a smaller terminated crystal on one side of the main crystal. Super crystal ! Overall size is 3x2.5x2.2 cm