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

Catri, Sant Ilario, Isola Elba, Livorno, Italy - Nice old timer. This specimen is from a quite old famous locality close to Sant Ilario, Isola Elba. The specimen hosts more than 6 terminated bright yellow elbaites nicely dispersed among terminated quartz and orthoclase crystals. The elbaites are up to 0.5-0.7 cm in size and show a great color. Quartz and orthoclase are up to 1 cm. Dispersed on the quartz and feldspars there are a number of not terminated elbaites, broken probably when the cavity was opened ! overall size is 6.5x4x4 cm. Old labels.

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

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 cherry-colored elbaites. This specimen hosts a couple of red/brown colored elbaites to 0.4 cm in size and some smaller ones, all terminated and nicely displaying among feldspars and quartzes. A specimen almost impossible to find ! A must for the Elba collector also for the old label. No damage to the crystals. Overall size is 6x5x3 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