Shigar Valley, Northern Areas, Pakistan - Very nice thumbnail hosting a single gemmy prism of aquamarine attached to the edge of a feldspar/cleavelandite matrix. The aquamarine is 1 cm in size and shows nicely on the white matrix. The crystal is terminated and are visible also the termination on the bottom of the crystal. Overall size is 3.1x2.6x1.7 cm. Weight is 20 gr.

Stak Nala, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan - An aesthetic well terminated gemmy elbaite in combination with minor microlite & cleavelandite. The elbaite is 2.3 cm long and is perfectly terminated. The cleavelandite crystals are 1-1.3 cm wide and on some of these crystals there are some millimetric light brown microlites. Overall size is 2.6 × 2.2 × 1.1 cm

Milpillas mine, Cuitaca, Sonora, Mexico - Very nice deep blue crystals of azurite forming a cluster of 3x3x1.5 cm in size. The crystals are well shaped and up to 1.8x1.5 cm in size ! Very esthetic cluster. Overall size is 3x3x1.5 cm. Weight is 21 gr

Colle d'Orano, Isola Elba, Livorno, Italy - Nice bright green coverage of epidote crystals. Their size is up to 2-3 mm. Nice specimen of 4x3x2 cm

La Morita mine, Chihuahua, Mexico - Nice wulfenite crystals with nice orange color show up on this rock. The wulfenites are nicely located on the carbonate matrix and the largest wulfenite is 1.4 cm on the edge ! there are a lot of other wulfenites all around ! there are more than a dozen crystals here ! Overall size is 3.5x3x2.4 cm. Weight is 45 gr.

Niaslo, Basha Valley, Skardu Distr., Northern Areas, Pakistan - A nice light violet fluorapatite crystals sits on the top of a terminated well defined adularia crystal. The apatite is 0.7 cm wide and the adularia is 2.3x2 cm. Overall size is 2.5x2.4x2.2 cm

Trepča, Kosovska Mitrovica, Kosovo - A great real esthetic specimen with well defined bright arsenopyrite crystals surrounded by quartz crystals ! There are also some sphalerite enclosed and rhodochrosite. A real nice specimen rare to find ! Overall size is 3.8 × 3 × 2.3 cm. Weight is 25 gr

Minas Gerais, Brazil - A very nice and esthetic specimen ! A quartz point, perfectly terminated hosts a couple of bright green elbaites that emerge from the quartz crystal. A third elbaite is completely frozen inside the quartz. Real nice and peculiar Brazilian specimen of 3.5x2.5x2.5 cm in size. Weight is 20 gr.

Juab Co., Utah, USA - A super thumbnail ! On a small piece of matrix there is a perfectly terminated undamaged bixbyite crystal 0.7 cm onthe edge ! Super crystal. Overall size is 1x1x0.7 cm. Mounted in a perky box. Weight is 5 gr.

Darrah I Pech, Chapa Dara District, Kunar Prov., Afghanistan - Nice bright beryl var goshenite of 2.6x2.3x2 cm in size. The goshenite sits on a small matrix and is biterminated.  Overall size is 2.6x2.3x2.4 cm. Weight is 20 gr.