Nikolayevskiy Mine, Dalnegorsk, Russian Federation - A siderite/carbonate matrix is host to a complex cluster of doubly terminated nailhead pink manganocalcite. The crystals are up to 2.5-2.8 cm in size. A few tiny marks, but nice lustrous little specimen. Overall size is 4.4x3.4x2.4 cm

Pune, Maharashtra, India - Nice pentagonite column of 1 cm in length. The cluster is completely composed by 1-3 mm pentagonite crystals, bright blue in color ! Overall size is 3.5x3x2 cm

Pune, Maharashtra, India - There are a dozen cubic apophylite crystals green in color with several books of heulandite crystals all around and on the apophyllites. Nice specimen of 7.5x4x3.5 cm

Nikolayevskiy Mine, Dalnegorsk, Russia - There are various pinkish nailhead manganocalcite crystals up to 4 cm in size ! There are also many others some of them biterminated all around this rock. Nice specimen of 6x5x3.2 cm in size

Huanggang Mine, Chifeng, Inner Mongolia, China - The small piece of matrix of is composed by magnetite and calcite. There is a cluster of genthelvite crystals that is composed by 2 main genthelvite having a common base ! The cluster looks like being biterminated and with a rombohedric shape. The whole measures 1.4x0.7 cm and show a nice brown color with some qurtz coating of tiny crystals. Overall size is 1.8x1.7x1.6 cm

Zagi Mountain, Federally Administered Tribal Areas, Pakistan - This rock hosts a 0.6 cm wide bastnasite crystal, with a nice light brown color. The crystal is undamaged ! Overall size is 2.9x1.9x1 cm. Ex Ikram Mineralogy collection.

Northern Areas, Pakistan - There are a couple of elbaites but only one is terminated. The size of the main crystal is 2 cm and shows a nice green color close to the top ! Overall size of the specimen is 2.8x2.5x2 cm

Huanggang Mine, Chifeng, Inner Mongolia, China - Nice brown twinned genthelvite crystals  up to 0.9 cm on ludwigite and magnetite. Overalll size is 3x2x1.5 cm

Huanggang Mine, Chifeng, Inner Mongolia, China - Large terminated genthelvite crystal of 1.5 cm on the edge with minor magnetite and calcite

Hunza Valley, Northern Areas, Pakistan - A nice topaz of 1 cm in size  shows on a face of a large terminated quartz crystal. Overall size is 5x3x2 cm