ALL PEGMATITE Minerals
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ELBAITE
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…
SCHORL & QUARTZ
Gorgolinato, Sant Ilario, Isola Elba, Livorno, Italy - An old classic. Gorgolinato is an old area that produced a number of fine schorl and beryl crystals. This specimen hosts several bright…
ELBAITE
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…
BERYL var AQUAMARINE
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…
BERYL & ORTHOCLASE
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…
Elbaite, Quartz, Microlite & Orthoclase
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…
SPESSARTINE & ORTHOCLASE
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…
Elbaite , Orthoclase, Cassiterite, Opal var jalite & Quartz
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…
ELBAITE
San Piero, Isola Elba, Livorno, Italy - There are almost a dozen elbaites on this rock ! They show a classic brown color with a lighter top, almost transparent in some of them. Their size is up to 0.8…
ELBAITE - MOOR'S HEAD
MOOR'S HEAD TERMINATION !
PETALITE
San Piero, Isola Elba, Livorno, Italy - Gemmy petalite crystal of 2x1.5x1.3 cm in size. Very nice and bright !
ELBAITE
San Piero, Isola Elba, Livorno, Italy - It happens to find nice elbaites hidden inside some cavities. This is one ! There are 5 multicolor elbaites all together in this cavity. The most evident is the…
CASSITERITE & ORTHOCLASE
San Piero, Isola Elba, Livorno, Italy - Incredibly large ! Close to a large pink feldspar thre is a terminated cassiterite crystal of 0.4 cm in size ! Quite large for the species from this locality !…
ELBAITE
San Piero, Isola Elba, Livorno, Italy - On the border of an open cavity, there is a terminated bicolor elbaite 0.7 cm long. Inside this cavity a bigger elbaite shows nicely together with some smaller…
ELBAITE & ORTHOCLASE
San Piero, Isola Elba, Livorno, Italy - A super specimen with a number of colored elbaites and feldspars ! There are a dozen elbaites nicely located on and among the feldspars. The elbaites show a…
ELBAITE
Forcioni dike, Sant Ilario, Isola Elba, Livorno, Italy - A spectacular specimen from one of the best elbaite findings of the early 90ies. This specimen hosts a perfectly terminated and undamaged…
ELBAITE
San Piero, Isola Elba, Livorno, Italy - A bright light pink elbaite is located inside a cavity of the pegmatite. The crystal is 1.3 cm in size ! No damage ! Quite large feldspars also. Overall size is…
SCHORL & BERYL
San Piero, Isola Elba, Livorno, Italy - This specimen shows an open pegmatite cavity with a lot of schorl crystals, many of them are terminated. The schorl are up to 0.5 cm. Classically, there are…
ELBAITE & MORGANITE
San Piero, Isola Elba, Livorno, Italy - A super combination specimen ! This specimen hosts 3 well shaped terminated elbaites with a nice yellow color at the base. Their size is up to 1 cm. One of them…
SCHORL & ORTHOCLASES
San Piero, Isola Elba, Livorno, Italy - A classic specimen from the pegmatite areas of San Piero.This specimen has an open cavity with a some large orthoclase crystals up to almopst 3 cm on the edge.…
ELBAITE
San Piero, Isola Elba, Livorno, Italy - A very rich specimen ! The whole surface of the specimen is entirely covered by hundreds of elbaite crystals ! The color is light brown/amber. Lot of clusters…
BERYL
San Piero, Isola Elba, Livorno, Italy - Super bright, gemmy beryl shows on this specimen ! The beryl is 0.9x0.8x0.7 cm in size and is perfectly located close to quartz and orthoclase crystals. Close…
CASSITERITE
San Piero, Isola Elba, Livorno, Italy - A super bright cluster of cassiterite crystals ! From my personal collection. The cassiterites are undamaged and form a cluster of 0.4 cm wide ! Great shapes…
APATITE
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…
ELBAITE
San Silvestro dike, San Piero, Isola Elba, Livorno, Italy - San Silvestro has been one of the oldest pegmatite vein worked at the San Piero area, aftwer the Speranza quarry. Now it is exausted and…
SCHORL & BERYL
San Piero, Isola Elba, Livorno, Italy - A classic combination specimen from the pegmatite areas of Isola Elba, Italy. This rock host several terminated schorl crystals up to 0.5-0.6 cm nicely located…
PETALITE
San Piero, Isola Elba, Livorno, Italy - Super high quality petalite specimen of the rare PETALITE ! The specimen is entirely composed by petalite, classically etched inside the pockets of Isola Elba.…
SCHORL & ORTHOCLASE
San Piero, Isola Elba, Livorno, Italy - A great amount, hundreds of terminated schorl crystals cover most of the surface of this pegmatite specimen ! Classicallythe schorl crystals are grouped in …
ELBAITE
Facciatoia, San Piero, Isola Elba, Livorno, Italy - An old specimen from the historical quarry of Facciatoia, now defunct. There is a 0.4 cm terminated pink/red elbaite inside a cavity of the…
SPESSARTINE
Grotta d'Oggi, San Piero, Isola Elba, Livorno, Italy - An old and very peculiar specimen since there are several 2-4 mm spessartines located on the faces of the feldspar crystals partly covered by…
SPESSARTIMNE & ORTHOCLASE
San Piero, Isola Elba, Livorno, Italy - On a nice grouping of feldspar crystals there are some bright orange spessartine crystals. Spessartine is a rare occurrence on the pegmatite of Elba. The…
SCHORL & ORTHOCLASE
San Piero, Isola Elba, Livorno, Italy - Typical exmple of the structure of a crystallized vein inside the pockets of the pegmatite areas of Isola Elba. There is a 3 cm schorlite vein that shows…
BERYL
LA SPERANZA, SAN PIERO, ISOLA ELBA, LIVORNO, ITALY - The area of La Speranza was one of the oldest area where tourmalines and other pegmatite minerals have been found during the 18th century. More or…
SCHORL
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…
SPESSARTINE & ORTHOCLASE
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…
QUARTZ & ALBITE
SAN PIERO, ISOLA ELBA, LIVORNO, ITALY - Typical fragment of a pegmatite pocket from Isola Elba., Italy. The specimen has several terminated quartz crystals up to 2 cm in size with a lot of cluster of…
CASSITERITE
SAN PIERO, ISOLA ELBA, LIVORNO, ITALY - Cassiterite crystals are typical on pegmatite rocks and Isola Elba pegmatites obey to this rule though the crystals here are usually of millimetric size. This…
ELBAITE, QUARTZ & ORTHOCLASE
SAN PIERO, ISOLA ELBA, LIVORNO, ITALY - Nice reference specimen from the pegmatite areas of Isola Elba, Italy ! The specimen has some tiny (2-3 mm) elbaites located on quartz and orthoclase crystals.…
SCHORL & BERYL
SAN PIERO, ISOLA ELBA, LIVORNO, ITALY - Pegmatite minerals are sometimes nicely coupled. In fact it is not so rare to find that schorl, beryl and/or cassiterite crystals are variously combined in the…
CASSITERITE
SAN PIERO, ISOLA ELBA, ITALY - Bright millimetric cassiterite crystal shows on the white feldspar matrix of this specimen. Tiny but nice crystal. Overall size is 4x3x3 cm
BERYL
FORCIONI DIKE, SANT ILARIO, ISOLA ELBA, ITALY - Colorless beryls (goshenite) are nested among small feldspars on this specimen from the Forcioni area. Their size is up to 0.8 cm. Overall size is…
BERYL
SAN PIERO, ISOLA ELBA, LIVORNO, ITALY - Colorless terminated beryl is nicely located on the white feldspar matrix. The crystal shows to be formaed by the combination of two crystals, compenetrated !…
ELBAITE
SAN PIERO, ISOLA ELBA, LIVORNO, ITALY - In this open cavity there are half a dozen elbaite crystals, all terminated ! The crystals are nested among quartz and feldspar crystals. Their size is up to…
CASSITERITE
SAN PIERO, ISOLA ELBA, ITALY - BrighT cassiterite crystal of 2 mm in size shows up on feldspar crystal. The luster is perfect as well as the terminations. No damage ! Overall size is 4x2x3 cm
CASSITERITE
SAN PIERO, ISOLA ELBA, ITALY - On the white pegmatite of this rock there are 2 cassiterite crystals, nicely located in the middle of a cavity. The crystals are well exposed and up to 2-3 mm in size,…
SCHORL
SAN PIERO, ISOLA ELBA, ITALY - Nicely terminated elbaite of 1.3 cm is located among feldspar crystals ! The elbaites is perfectly terminated and though dark in color, it shows a deep brown color !…
ELBAITE
SAN PIERO, ISOLA ELBA, ITALY - Nicely terminated elbaite of 1.3 cm is located among feldspar crystals ! The elbaites is perfectly terminated and though dark in color, it shows a deep brown color !…
SPESSARTINE & ORTOCLASE
SAN PIERO, ISOLA ELBA - Spessartite is quite uncommon inside the pegmatites of Isola Elba and the only specimens found were collected while working at the rosina dike in 1994. This specimen is from…
SPESSARTINE
SAN PIERO, ISOLA ELBA, ITALY - Spessartite has been found inside the pockets of the Elba pegmatites only in few occasions. The last one was in 1994 when the Rosina dike was found and exhausted ! This…
ELBAITE, ORTHOCLASE & QUARTZ
FILONE DEI PASTORI, SANT ILARIO, ISOLA ELBA, LIVORNO, ITALY - This locality has been worked in 2004 and now is exhausted. It produced interesting specimens, such as helvite and morganite crystals.…
MORGANITE, QUARTZ & ORTHOCLASE
SAN PIERO, ISOLA ELBA, LIVORNO, ITALY - Among the centimetric feldspars and quartz crystals there is a lightpink/grey morganite. The morganite is located close to a quartz crystal and shows a perfect…
SCHORL & ORTHOCLASE
SAN PIERO, ISOLA ELBA, ITALY - Among several orthoclase crystals there are various schorl crystals. The largest is 1.4 cm in size. There are some others up to 0.5 cm. The feldpars are up to 1-1.5 cm…
ELBAITE & FOITITE
SANT ILARIO, ISOLA ELBA, ITALY - This specimen is from an exhausted pegmatite vein known as Pastori pocket. Worked in 2004, it produced several nice specimens of elbaite and foitite. This specimen…
SPESSARTINE
San Piero, Isola Elba, Livorno, Italy - Single spessartine crystal on small matrix. The crystal is 0.3 cm in size. Overall size is 1.3x1.2x1 cm.
BERYL
San Piero, Isola Elba, Livorno, Italy - Well shaped hexagonal beryl of 0.5 cm in size sits on a quartz crystal ! The beryl is var goshenite. The specimen has also various partial elbaites. Overall…
SCHORL
San Piero, Isola Elba, Livorno, Italy - Nicely terminated 0.6 cm schorl close to feldspars and quartz crystals. Overall size is 6.5x3.5x2.5 cm.
SPESSARTINE
SAN PIERO, ISOLA ELBA, ITALY - The orange color of these spessartines are well visible on the white albite and feldspar matrix. The spessartines are up to 0.5 cm in size. Overall size is 5.5x5x4 cm.
PETALITE
SAN PIERO, ISOLA ELBA, ITALY - When opening the pegmatite veins, sometime, several small petalite crystals are found. For those interested in having more than one specimen of this unusual minerla from…
PETALITE
SAN PIERO, ISOLA ELBA, ITALY - Nice gemmy petalite crystal. This petalite has maintained the triangular shape of the crystal. The size is 1.2x0.8x0.5 cm.
PETALITE
SAN PIERO, ISOLA ELBA, ITALY - This petalite etched crystal has a very peculiar shape: it looks like the profile of a "lama", isn'it ? It has a nice luster, and it is 1.5x1x0.7 cm in size.
PETALITE
SAN PIERO, ISOLA ELBA, ITALY - A typical hetched petalite crystal, usually found when openeing new pegmatite veins. The crystal is 1.8x1.1x0.7 cm in size. It shows some gemmy areas.
SCHORL, BERYL & QUARTZ
FORCIONI DIKE, SANT ILARIO, ISOLA ELBA, ITALY - Colorless beryls (goshenite) are nested among small feldspars on this specimen from the Forcioni area. Their size is up to 0.8 cm. Overall size is…