San Silvestro dike, San Piero, Isola Elba, Livorno, Italy - San Silvestro has been one of the oldest pegmatite vein worked at the San Piero area, aftwer the Speranza quarry. Now it is exausted and almost no traces are left of its location. This specimen is from my personal collection. There are 3 perfectly terminated elbaites ! the main crystals are 0.5 cm in size and show a deep brown/green color while the top is light green. The smallest elbaite is located just below the other 2 crystals, with the same aspect. Very nice thumbnail. Great esthetics ! overall size is 2.2x2.2x1.8 cm.

SANT ILARIO, ISOLA ELBA, ITALY - This specimen is from an exhausted pegmatite vein known as Pastori pocket. Worked in 2004, it produced several nice specimens of elbaite and foitite. This specimen hosts several bright white feldspar crystals up to 1-1.5 cm on the edge and a nice amount of 2-4 mm albite crystals. Inside an open cavity an undamaged cemtimentric elbaite emerges with a consistent amount of foitet on its top ! overall size of this specimen is 11x6.5x5 cm.

San Piero, Isola Elba, Livorno, Italy - Greatly terminated elbaite crystal nicely located on orthoclase small piece of matrix. The crystal shows greatly with nice change of color close to the top where it is with a light violet. The crystal is 1.7 cm in size !

Grotta d'Oggi, San Piero, Isola Elba, Livorno, Italy - Lot of minerals on the same rock ! Though the 1.5 cm long elbaite is incomplete, there are a lot of other uncommon minerals on this rock. Indeed other than to nice and well shaped orthoclases to 1 cm on the edge and quartz up to 1.5 cm, there various groups of bright metallic cassiterites and on several quartz crystals there are a lot of gemmy waterclear bubbles of opal var jalite. Very interesting rock of 7.5x4.5x3.5 cm

SAN PIERO, ISOLA ELBA, ITALY - Nicely terminated elbaite of 1.3 cm is located among feldspar crystals ! The elbaites is perfectly terminated and though dark in color, it shows a deep brown color ! Great contrast on the matrix ! Overall size is 4x4x3.5 cm.

FILONE DEI PASTORI, SANT ILARIO, ISOLA ELBA, LIVORNO, ITALY - This locality has been worked in 2004 and now is exhausted. It produced interesting specimens, such as helvite and morganite crystals. This specimen hosts a terminated bicolor elbaite of 0.6 cm. There is an other similar elbaite partly hidden below a quartz crystal. All around there various quartz and feldspar crystals. Overall size is 5x4x3 cm.

SAN PIERO, ISOLA ELBA, LIVORNO, ITALY - In this open cavity there are half a dozen elbaite crystals, all terminated ! The crystals are nested among quartz and feldspar crystals. Their size is up to 0.8 cm. Nice rock of 8x4.5x4 cm

San Piero, Isola Elba, Livorno, Italy - This specimen hosts a lot of bright elbaites with a nice amber color. Their size is up to 0.8-1 cm and several of them are bi-terminated. There is also a nice cluster of quartz crystals. Overall size is 6x4x3.5 cmSan Piero, Isola Elba, Livorno, Italy - This specimen hosts a lot of bright elbaites with a nice amber color. Their size is up to 0.8-1 cm and several of them are bi-terminated. There is also a nice cluster of quartz crystals. Overall size is 6x4x3.5 cm

San Piero, Isola Elba, Livorno, Italy - On the border of an open cavity, there is a terminated bicolor elbaite 0.7 cm long. Inside this cavity a bigger elbaite shows nicely together with some smaller ones ! A nice specimen of 6.5x4.5x3.6 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