San Piero, Isola Elba, Livorno, Italy - An old specimen, collected at the beginning of 1900, probably from Grotta d'Oggi area. It hosts 2 perfectly terminated and undamaged polichrome elbaites of 1 and 1.7 cm in size !There are various quartz crystals and one is located in between the 2 elbaites. On the back there are the various collection numbers. It comes with the old label (german collection). Overall size is 6.5x5.5x3 cm

San Piero, Isola Elba, Livorno, Italy - An old specimen, collected at the beginning of 1900, probably from Grotta d'Oggi area. It hosts a couple of perfectly terminated light blue beryls , growing as parallel twins, one is 1.5 and the other 0.6 cm in size. No damage. There are several orthoclases and quartz crystals all around. Very nice display of this old specimen of 6x5.5x3.5 cm. It comes with the old label.

Grotta d'Oggi, San Piero, Isola Elba, Livorno, Italy - An old specimen from a german collection. The rock hosts a terminated goshenite beryl 1 cm in size which is nicely nested close to a feldspar. A classic from the old locality of grotta d'Oggi ! overall size is 6x4.5x3.5 cm. Old label also from Krantz collection.

Grotta d'Oggi, San Piero, Isola Elba, Livorno, Italy - An old specimen from a german collection. This specimen is characterized by a biterminated quartz crystal of 2 cm in length with a lot of albite cluster all around it and among them there are a couple of perfectly terminated multicolor elbaites up to 0.6 cm in size. There are also some brown millimetric microlites, beryls dispersed among the albites and the books of cleavelandite. Very nice old timer of 5x4x2.5 cm.

Grotta d'Oggi, San Piero, Isola Elba, Livorno, Italy - Though spessartine rapresent a classic for pegmatite areas, they have not been a frequent finding at isola Elba. Nevertheless this rock from Grotta d'Oggi shows several millimetric spessartines nicely located on the faces of the various orthoclase crystals ! the feldspars are up to 1.6 cm on the edge. The specimen has a 50 years old label that describes as "grossular" the spessartines and misspelled the name of the locality. Very peculiar old label ! Nice old timer of 5x4x3.5 cm

San Piero, Isola Elba, Livorno, Italy - Bright and nice orange in color spessartines are located on the face of this orthoclase. The main spessartine is 0.3 cm in size, bright and no damage. The feldspar is 3 cm on the edge.  Probably from Grotta d'Oggi area. Overall size is 4.5x4x2 cm

Grotta d'Oggi, San Piero, Isola Elba, Livorno, Italy - Lot of minerals on the same rock ! Though the 1.5 cm long elbaite is incomplete, there are a lot of other uncommon minerals on this rock. Indeed other than to nice and well shaped orthoclases to 1 cm on the edge and quartz up to 1.5 cm, there various groups of bright metallic cassiterites and on several quartz crystals there are a lot of gemmy waterclear bubbles of opal var jalite. Very interesting rock of 7.5x4.5x3.5 cm

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 up to the size of 1 cm ! The vesuvianites have also some tiny grossular crystals all around. The whole rock is a pyroclastic stone. Overall size is 8.7x5x5 cm. Weight is 245 gr.

Valle Giove mine, Rio Marina, Isola Elba, Livorno, Italy - Bright golden pentagonododecahedron crystals compose this specimen. The biggest crystal is 3 cm in diameter ! Smaller up to 1.5 cm in size are at its base with some hematite matrix. Real nice classic specimen from the iron ore of Elba ! overall size is 4.5x3.5x3.5 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.