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Italian Minerals for Collectors

A website dedicated to advanced mineral collectors. Lot of specimens from all over the world but greatly dedicated to Italian mineralogy.

I am a mineral collector but also a rock-hunter ! I have been collecting rock from when I was 10 years old.

My area of interest is in pegmatite minerals from Isola Elba, Tuscany, Italy and probably this is the richest website of such kind of specimens !

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ROUXELITE

Monte Arsiccio mine,  Sant'Anna di Stazzema, Apuane Alps, Lucca, Italy -  This specimen has nice clusters  of silver metallic crystals of Rouxelite up to 1 cm well visible on the matrix and on a…

ARAGONITE

Giumentaro mine, Caltanissetta, Sicily, Italy - A large specimen with a great abundance of classic prismatic aragonite crystals with a light green/grey color. The aragonite crystals are up to 1.5 cm…

BROOKITE & ANATASE

Monte Bregaceto, Borzonasca, Genova, Italy - A nice classic orange brrokite cluster from this well known italian locality. The cluster is up to 1 cm in size and the main crystal is up to 0.7 cm !…

NEPTUNITE

Bright, deep red, terminated 1.7 cm crystal of neptunite on matrix. There are 2 other smaller crystals on the right. Showy 3x3x2 cm specimen. Overall size is 3x3x2 cm.

BENITOITE and NEPTUNITE

SAN BENITO GEM MINE, SAN BENITO CO., CA, USA - This specimen hosts both the typical minerals from this locality. There is a terminated blue crystal of benitoite of 1 cm on the edge, well exposed on…

SPESSARTINE

Nani Hill, Loliondo, Ngorongoro District, Tanzania - Perfectly sheped, gemmy, orange in color spessartine crystal ! Very nice crystal ! The size is 2.5x2.3x1.6 cm, Weight is 17 gr

CASSITERITE

HUNAN PROV., CHINA - Real bright dark cassiterite crystals up to 1.5 cm are grouped so that to form a whole cluster. In total there are half a dozen crystals ! Real showy 3.5x2.5x2 cm rock.

BROOKITE & QUARTZ

KARHAN MTS., PAKISTAN - The best specimen of the lot ! There is an undamaged terminated brookite crystal of 2.4x1.4 cm in size and close to it there is an other brookite of 1.5 cm in size. A super…

BERYL var AQUAMARINE

PAKISTAN -  Esthetic specimen of 10x5.5x5 cm showing a coating of lepidolite with several beryl crystals scattered around. Their size is up to  1.3 cm ! there are also some quartz and dolomite…

BRASILIANITE

BRAZIL - Real showy cluster of brasilianite crystals, the largest are up to 0.7 cm, on matrix. 2x1.5x2 cm

DIOPTASE & DUFTITE

TSUMEB - Nice bright doptase crystals up to 2-3 mm show up with calcite romhedric crystals and duftite. Duftite has small light green crystals on calcite, well visible among the dioptase. Overall size…

PARGASITE

PAKISTAN - Crystalline pargasite on white matrix. The crystal show a bright green color 4x3x2.5 cm

UVITE & MAGNESITE

BRUMADO, BAHIA, BRASIL -  Nice combination specimen. This crystalline magnesite rock hosts some terminated red uvite crystals around 0.4 cm and a nice metallic hematite blade of 0.6 cm ! Overall size…

UVITE on MAGNESITE

BRUMADO, BAHIA, BRASIL -  Very nice specimen with large crystals ! On a carpet of crystalline magnesite there are almost a dozen terminated red uvites, the largest is up to 1x1.3 cm ! Very showy…

WARDITE

Rapid Creek,  Yukon,  Canada - Large wardite crystal of 1x0.7x0.6 sits nicely in an open cavity with some other smaller wardites. No damage. A classic from Yukon ! Overall size is 5x4x2.5 cm

SMOKY QUARTZ

Argentier glacier, Mont Blanc, France - Very nice and showy specimen with several perfectly terminated smoky qurtz crystals ! The cluster counts 6 main crystals up to 4 cm in size and all with a nice…

PYROMORPHITE

Daoping Mine, Guangxi Prov., China - Very nice coverage of pyromorphite crystals. The crystals are up to 1 cm in size and shoe a great green color ! The whole surface of the specimen is covered by the…

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