San Piero, Isola Elba, Livorno, Italy - Among the most rare tourmalines found in the pockets of the pegmatites of Isola Elba there is moor's head elbaites. We had been lucky this time and we got 2 perfectly terminated acroites with such Moor's head ! very nice terminated crystals of 1 cm in size nicely located in an open cavity close to a white feldspar crystal of 2 cm in size. Nice rock of 7x7x4 cm in size

Le Cetine mine, Siena, Italy - A rare mineral from the type locality. Onoratoite derves from stibnite oxidation and shows as groups of white acicular crystals. This rock has several clusters of millimetric crystals nicely dispersed on an open cavity. Overall size is 3x3x2.2 cm

Le Cetine mine, Siena, Italy - A rare mineral from the type locality. Onoratoite derves from stibnite oxidation and shows as groups of white acicular crystals. This rock has several clusters of millimetric crystals. Overall size is 3.5x2x1.5 cm

Le Cetine mine, Siena, Italy - A rare mineral from the type locality. Onoratoite derves from stibnite oxidation and shows as groups of white acicular crystals. This rock has a great cluster of millimetric crystals well visible on the edge of an open cavity. Overall size is 4x2.5x1.5 cm

MARRUBIU QUARRY, ORISTANO, ITALY - Nice vulcanic matrix with a large open cavity with a lot of bright black osumilite crystals of 2 mm in size. Real nice specimen of 8.5x7x6 cm

Pereta Mine, Scansano, Tuscany, Italy - Red globules of ottensite on altered stibnite. Pereta is the first natural (non-slag) locality for this rare antimony oxide, and the specimen is also host to microscopic colorless aggregates (not visible under normal microscopes) of two other rare oxides - brizziite and mopungite.Overall size 4x2.2x1.5 cm 

It looks like the inside of a cave, with stalagtites and stalagmites ! 13x5 cm

Mt. Cavalluccio,  Campagnano di Roma,  Sacrofano Caldera,  Rome Province, Latium,  Italy - Rare specimen of Peprossiite-Ce on matrix. According to mindat, this mineral species is the first  anhydrous rare-earth-element borate and is found in only 4 localities, all located within Latium, Italy. Thumbnail of 1.2x1x0.9 cm

San Piero, Isola Elba, Livorno, Italy - Large, bright and gemmy petalite crystal. This petalite is among the largest we found in the last 2 years. It is a rare mineral at the Elba pegmatite. It measures 2.2x1.6x1 cm

San Piero, Isola Elba, Livorno, Italy - Gemmy petalite crystal of 2x1.5x1.3 cm in size. Very nice and bright !