Panasqueira Mine, Beira Baixa, Portugal - This mass of crystalline muscovite is host to several crystals of apatite to 1 cm across. No damage at all ! Overall size is 5.5 x 4.0 x 2.0 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 - Incredibly large ! Close to a large pink feldspar thre is a terminated cassiterite crystal of 0.4 cm in size ! Quite large for the species from this locality ! The feldspar is 2.5 cm on the edge ! Overall size is 4.5x4x3 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

Berbes, Ribadesella, Asturias, Spain - This specimen hosts a great abundance of perfect cubic fluorite crystals 1-1.2 cm on the edge ! There are dozens crystals here ! Their color is light violet and cover the whole rock on both sides  ! very nice classic specimen from Berbes, Spain. Overall size is 12.5 × 8 × 5.5 cm. Weight is 400 gr.

Case Collina quarry, Pitigliano, Grosseto, Tuscany, Italy - An old timer since this quarry was closed more than 20 years ago. The specimen hosts a number of large and well exposed brown vesuvianite crystals to the size of 1.5 cm ! The vesuvianites have also some tiny grossular crystals all around. The whole rock is a pyroclastic stone. Overall size is 6.5x5.5x5.5 cm. Weight is 200 gr.

San Piero, Isola Elba, Livorno, Italy - This specimen shows an open pegmatite cavity with a lot of schorl crystals, many of them are terminated. The schorl are up to 0.5 cm. Classically, there are several orthoclases, bright white and on one of them there is a 0.9 cm beryl, terminated and waterclear. Beryls are usually coupled with schorl at Isola Elba. The orthoclases are 1 cm on the edge. Overall size is 8.5x7x5 cm.

SAN FILIPPO MINE, MONTE AMIATA, SIENA, ITALY - An old timer. This specimen is from an old collection. It has been found in 1978 and shows a large nodule of cinnabar (6x6 cm in size) with a great abundance of tiny/micro crystals. There are also small schalenoedric crystals of calcite. Quite heavy rock ! overall size is 12x10x7 cm. Old labels also.

Monteponi mine, Carbonia-Iglesias, Sardinia, Italy - Interesting and rich anglesite specimen. The matrix is entirely constituted by galena and there are several bright and waterclear anglesites show on it ! The anglesites are up 1 cm and show greatly on the galena. Overall size is 4.5x4x3.5 cm

Colonnata quarry, Apuane Alps, Carrara, Italy - A bright yellow sulfur crystal of 1x1 cm in size shows on the top of this marble specimen ! A very nice crystal, terminated. Rare to find such kind of crystals. Overall size is 7x4.5x3.5 cm.