Seccheto, Campo nell'Elba, Livorno Province, Tuscany, Italy

Here is a very nice sample with radiating epidote crystals and pink titanite dotted with tiny altered pyrite crystals. Found in 1994 at Seccheto. Photographed with biological microscope Zeiss, objective luminar 16mm Zeiss, duplicator 1.2X, APN Sony alpha6000.

© Bonifazi Marco 2016

Here is a very well formed titanite crystal, found in 1994 at Seccheto, to the SE of San Piero in Campo. Photographed with biological microscope Zeiss, objective luminar 16mm Zeiss, duplicator 1.2X, APN Sony alpha6000.

© Bonifazi Marco 2016

Very rare "black cap"tourmaline crystals with quartz, orthoclase, albite, lepidolite and cassiterite, a mineral not cited in the minerals of this little-known locality of Elba island.