Cruzeiro mine, Sao Jose Safian City, Minas gerais, Brazil - Perfectly terminated pink and green elbaite of 2.3x0.5x0.5 cm in size ! No damage ! Great colors !

Cruzeiro mine, Sao Jose Safian City, Minas gerais, Brazil - Greatly terminated elbaite. The crystal shows pink and red colors. The size is 2x0.3x0.3 cm. Weight is close to 2 gr.

Cruzeiro mine, Sao Jose Safian City, Minas Gerais, Brazil - Greatly terminated elbaite. The crystal shows pink and red colors. The size is 2.4x0.5x0.4 cm. Weight is around 2 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

San Piero, Isola Elba, Livorno, Italy - Greatly terminated elbaite crystal nicely located on orthoclase small piece of matrix. The crystal shows greatly with nice change of color close to the top where it is with a light violet. The crystal is 1.7 cm in size !

Stak Nala, Skardu District, Pakistan - Double terminated elbaite attached to a book of cleavelandite. The crystal is undamaged and 3.2 cm long ! it shows a light yellow on one end and green on the other. There is a smaller 1.3 cm terminated elbaite on a side. Overall size is 4.7x2.5x2 cm

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.

San Piero, Isola Elba, Livorno, Italy - A very esthetic, pristine, elbaite var rubellite of 1.6 cm in size is nicely located on a partial crystal of orthoclase. A real great crystal ! Very nice and showy specimen of 3x1.8x1 cm.

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

Alchuri Village, Shigar, Northern Areas, Pakistan - Nice cluster of epidote crystals. The crystals have grown such as faden quartz. The epidotes are up to 1.5 cm wide and 2 cm tall. The whole cluster is 3x2 cm in size and there are 4 large crystals and some smaller others. Ex Ikram Mineralogy collection