HOOSY, MADAGASCAR - A very nice biterminated corundom on scist matrix ! The crystal is 2.3 cm long and 1.6 cm wide ! Great red/violet color. Very esthetic ! Overall size is 3x2.7x1.8 cm

Manapa, Madagascar - A couple of perfectly terminated liddicoatites show up on this specimen ! Both crystals show greatly ! Their sizes are 1.5 and 0.8 cm in size. Both are perfectly terminated ! Nice rock of 6.5x5x4 cm.

N'Chwaning mines, Northern Cape, South Africa - Prismatic crystals of sturmanite to 1.2 cm in length set nicely up on matrix. One crystal shows damage, this still very nice for the species. Originally obtained through collector Bill Pinch in the early 1980s. Overall size is 6.0 x 6.0 x 0.5 cm. Ex Stan Woollams collection

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

Erongo Mountains, Karibib, Erongo Region, Namibia - A single perfect striated blue aquamarine crystal shows up on a small mass of small irregular orthoclase crystals. The exposed crystal measures to 4 cm in size !! Great color and very fine specimen from this well known locality. This specimen has been collcrted in 1996. Overall size is 4 × 3.1 × 2.4 cm. Weight is 42 gr

Goboboseb Mountains, Brandberg Area, Erongo, Namibia - Very nice and well defined amethyst quartz shepter ! The amethys crystal has a nice color. It is biterminated and sits on a smoky quartz ! There are an other couple of quartz crystals at the base. The full length of the shepter is 4.7 cm and the amethyst is 2,8 cm in size. Overall size of the rock is  5.5x3x3 cm. Weight is 35 gr.

Beni Bouzra, Chefchaouen Province, Tanger-Tetouan-Al Hoceima Region, Morocco - Morocco has recently offered a nice variety of elbaite crystals on matrix. Here we have a specimen hosting several red elbaites, var rubellite. The main one is terminated and 1.4 cm in size ! all around there are several other elbaites and some of them are terminated or some other recrystallized. Nice quartz points also, up to 1.5-2 cm in size and biterminated. There is hyalite coating on some crystals. Overall size is 5.8x3.5x3.5 cm. Weight is 80 gr.

TSITONDROINA, FIANARANTSOA, MADAGASCAR - Perfectly terminated gemmy liddicoatite crystal of 3x2.2x2 cm. The color is close to a light violet/red though it changes if under sun light or artificial light ! Very nice crystal.