Paola, Cosenza Province, Calabria, Italy
Pink almandine-pyrope with brown phlogopite. Base size: 4.5 mm. Collection and photo: Giorgio Bortolozzi.
Base size: 3.5 mm. Collection and photo: Giorgio Bortolozzi.
Base size: 4.5 mm. Collection and photo: Giorgio Bortolozzi.
Base size: 2.8 mm. Collection and photo: Giorgio Bortolozzi.
Collection and photo: Giorgio Bortolozzi.
Black rutile with violet-brownish almandine-pyrope. Base size: 3 mm. Collection and photo: Giorgio Bortolozzi.
Base size: 2.5 mm. Collection and photo: Giorgio Bortolozzi.
Red-brown phlogopite on violet almandine-pyrope with black graphite. Base size: 3.5 mm. Collection and photo: Giorgio Bortolozzi.
Mineralized stone with almandine-pyrope crystals. Base area: 5 cm. Collection and photo: Giorgio Bortolozzi.
Base size: 3 mm. Collection and photo: Giorgio Bortolozzi.
Base size: 3.2 mm. Collection and photo: Giorgio Bortolozzi.
Base size: 5.5 mm. Collection and photo: Giorgio Bortolozzi.
Base size: 1.8 mm. Collection and photo: Giorgio Bortolozzi.
Small red-black rutile crystals. Base size: 3.2 mm. Collection and photo: Giorgio Bortolozzi.
Mineralized stone with prevalent epidote. Base size: 4 cm. Collection and photo Giorgio Bortolozzi.
Some mineralized stones found along the beach. Base size: 25 cm. Collection and photo: Giorgio Bortolozzi.
The pebbly beach of Paola (September 2011). Photo: Giorgio Bortolozzi.
The Isca stream flowing into the Tyrrhenian Sea at Paola (September 2011). Photo: Giorgio Bortolozzi.