CAMPO DI SASSO, BIBBONA, LIVORNO, ITALY - Interesting specimen with nice bright honey sphalerite crystals up to 0.4 cm with a lot of galena cubic crystals. On most of them and dispersed on the quartz crystals there are a lot of zinchenite and stibnite millimetric crystals. Overall size is 8.5x5x4 cm.

CAMPO DI SASSO, BIBBONA, LIVORNO, ITALY - Large specimen with several honey sphalerite crystals up to 1 cm nested among 1-1.5 cm quartz crystals. There are also some stibnite crystals to complete the picture of this rock. Overall size is 10x6x5 cm.

CAMPO DI SASSO, MARINA DI BIBBONA, LIVORNO, ITALY - Honey colored sphalerite crytals up to 2 mm cover the surface of this rock. Not common from this locality to get such amount of coverage ! 8.5x4x3 cm.

PERTICARA MINE, PERTICARA, ITALY - An old specimen from a dismissed collection. This mine has been worked up to the early 60ies. Nowadays is closed forever due to toxic gas. The specimen has a lot of 0.4 cm sulfur crystals nicely located on a coating of terminated celestite crystals ! there are hundreds of 2-4 mm celestite crystals. Overall size is 8x4x7 cm.

Perticara mine, Perticara Italy - The contrast of the yellow on the black is really showy. These crystals are in the range of 0.8 cm, unfortunately the one on the right is partially complete but the other is perfect. There is a smaller one on the left. Real showy.

Perticara mine, Perticara ItalyNice 0.2-0.5 cm crystals are scattered on this rock. Nice terminations and good yellow color !

Perticara mine, Perticara ItalyThis rock hosts a complex crystal of sulfur of 1.4 cm. The cluster is formed by several crystals one over the other.

COZZODISI MINE, AGRIGENTO, SICILY, ITALY - There are some large sulfur crystals on this specimen, close to a cavity containing other smaller ones. The large sulfurs are nicely terminated, with a neat yello color and are up to 2 cm on the edge ! The smaller ones are up to 0.5-1 cm. Overall size of this rock is 5.5x6.5x4.5 cm

ABBADIA SAN SALVATORE MINE, MONTE AMIATA, SIENA, ITALY - A quite large and heavy specimen mostly composed by cinnabar. The whole rock is covered by tiny, brilliant red crystals of cinnabar. Not easy to find such large old timer specimen from this well known locality ! The whole rock is 7.5x6x4 cm in size.

ABBADIA SAN SALVATORE MINE, MONTE AMIATA, SIENA, ITALY - A heavy cinnabar specimen, with several open cavities with a lot of cinnabar crystals ! The color is bright red, as usual for this species. Overall size is 7.5x4.5x4 cm.