San Piero, Isola Elba, Livorno, Italy - Very interesting specimen that hosts a well visible and perfectly terminated bicolored elbaite of 0.7 cm in size. There are also other elbaites that are on the back of the main crystal and one that is bending on the top of the main crystal. Also this one is terminated. Nice specimen of 6x3.5x3 cm in size

Facciatoia, San Piero, Isola Elba, Livorno, Italy - An old specimen from the historical quarry of Facciatoia, now defunct. The veins of this quarry produced a number of fantastic colored elbaites. This specimen hosts a perfectly terminated pink elbaite of 0.7 cm in size. All around there are a lot of quartz, pink feldspars and albites ! A specimen almost impossible to find ! No damage. Overall size is 8.5x4.5x3.5 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 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

San Piero, Isola Elba, Livorno, Italy - An old specimen, collected at the beginning of 1900, probably from Grotta d'Oggi area. It hosts 2 perfectly terminated and undamaged polichrome elbaites of 1 and 1.7 cm in size !There are various quartz crystals and one is located in between the 2 elbaites. On the back there are the various collection numbers. It comes with the old label (german collection). Overall size is 6.5x5.5x3 cm

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

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 - There are almost a dozen elbaites on this rock ! They show a classic brown color with a lighter top, almost transparent in some of them. Their size is up to 0.8 cm. Very nice specimen of 4.5x3x2 cm in size

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

San Piero, Isola Elba, Livorno, Italy - This specimen gives you the clear idea of how the pockets of the Elba pegmatites show when you open them ! There are half a dozen terminated elbaites up to 0.5-0.8 cm with a nice brown color changing to a light green/yellow close to the top dispersed in this open pocket. All of them show close to quartz and feldspar crystals. Very nice 10x6x3.5 cm specimen