Varaita Valley, Cuneo Province, Piedmont, Italy - Very fine epidote crystals up to 1.5 cm. on a white base of albite crystals. The green of the epidotes are a showy view on the white albite coating of crystals ! the albites are up to 0.5-0.8 cm. An excellent example of alpine epidote association. Overall size is 9 × 4 × 2.55 cm

Bacino mine, Rio Marina, Isola Elba, Livorno, Italy - Large and rich of crystals specimen from this famous locality. There are a lot of hematite blades and crystals one close to the others. Many of them show the classic iridescence ! crystalas are up to 2 cm in size. A classic from Italy. Overall size is 7.5x4.5x4.5 cm

Joe Larkin's quarry, Shannapheasteen, Co. Galway, Ireland - Bluish purple semi lustrous translucent cubic crystals to 2.0 cm on matrix. Slight cleaving present, the prominent crystals in very good condition.  6.0 x 5.0 x 2.0 cm

San Piero, Isola Elba, Livorno, Italy - A nicely terminated 1.4 cm long schorl shows on this pegmatite matrix. The rystal is perfectly terminated and shows greatly on this rock. At the base it has a narural contact on the matrix and no damage ! Nice crystal from Elba ! overall size is 3.5x3x2.5 cm

Fojnica, Central Bosnia Canton, Federation of Bosnia & Herzegovina, Bosnia and Herzegovina - Group of crystals with smoky color zoned with crystal larger than 6 cm  on a chlorite base. Overall size is 10x8x6 cm. Weight is 480 gr

Pollone Mine, Valdicastello Carducci, Lucca Province, Tuscany, Italy - Geocronite is a rare sulfide that can be found in this Italian locality. Crystals are very rare ! This rock hosts a crystalline mass of 16 mm embedded in the quartz with a nice and typical metallic grey color. Overall size 7 × 4.4 × 4.2 cm. Weight is 131 gr.

COLONNATA QUARRY, APUANE ALPS, CARRARA, ITALY - Bright yellow sulfur crystal of 0.3 cm in size, perfectly terminated, shows on the white marble. The crystals is close to some calcite crystals up to 0.6 cm in size. A classic, not frequent finding ! overall size is 7.2x5x4 cm. Weight is 215 gr.

Fonte del Prete, San Piero, Isola Elba, Livorno, Italy - A very rare finding from an hystorical locality. There is a quite large apatite crystal for this locality. The apatite is 0.6 cm wide ! It shows fluorescence under UV. It is located close to a couple of terminated quartz crystals. Overall size is 5x5x3.5 cm.

ZOGNO MINE, VAL BREMBANA, BERGAMO, ITALY - This mine is very famous for the well shaped violet fluorite cubes that produced in the past. Now the mine is closed. This specimen is from an old collection. The specimen hosts violet fluorite cube of fluorite of 1 cm on the edge and has etching on one corner on the back. The fluorite sits on a carpet of tint waterclear quartz crystals. Overall size is 9x5.5x3.5 cm. Weight is 200 gr.

Nikolayevskiy Mine, Dalnegorsk, Primorskiy Kray, Russian Federation - A cluster of pearly rounded columnar manganoan calcite with dodecahedral form, slightly speckled with chlorite/pocket debris. Very nice crystals up to 1.5 cm in size. Overall size is  9.4 × 7.2 × 4.5 cm.