This group includes 60 samples all coming from Somma Vesuvius, there are classic species for the locality, TL and other rare or very rare. Dimensions: MM, TN, Miniatures, weight 550 grams.
In the picture: Actinolite, Caledonite, Chrysocolla, Enstatite, Fluor-potassicrichterite TL, Gehlenite, "Humite" TL, Lazurite, Acicular fibrous zeolites.
1. Actinolite: bundles of white crystals in the mass, Vallone di San Sebastiano, San Sebastiano al Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy;
2. Analcime: colorless and transparent icositetrahedral crystals with packages of colorless crystals from Thomsonite, Cava Vitiello, Terzigno, Somma-Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy.
3. Anorthite: TL colorless complex crystals with bright crystals and just forsterite paglini, San Vito, Ercolano, Somma-Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy.
4. Caledonite: prismatic celestial crystals on black tenorite of the Crater of Vesuvius, Herculaneum, Somma-Vesuvius, Naples, Campania, Italy.
5. Calzirtite: small complex yellow crystals, San Vito, Ercolano, Somma-Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy.
6. Chondrodite: yellow crystals, San Vito, Ercolano, Somma-Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy.
7. Cuspidine: TL pink crystals with spear tip, ex coll. Panunzi, Somma-Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy.
8. Crysocolla: green alteration on magnetite, Cava Le Novelle, Ercolano, Somma-Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy.
9. "Davyna": TL white siliceous crystals, ex coll. Panunzi, Somma-Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy.
10. Diopside: squat yellow crystals, with magnetite, ex coll. Panunzi, Somma-Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy.
11. Diopside: elongated green crystals, ex coll. Panunzi, Somma-Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy.
12. Diopside green crystals in saccaroid marble, San Vito, Ercolano, Somma-Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy.
13. Enstatite: crystals or groups of brown orange crystals, Lagno Amendolare, Sant'Anastasia, Somma-Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy.
14. Ellestadite: siliceous crystals, San Vito, Ercolano, Somma-Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy.
15. Fayalite: elongated bronze-colored crystals, with sodalite and "horneblende", Vallone Molara, Sant'Anastasia, Somma-Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy.
16. Fluoborite: transparent and colorless prismatic isolated crystals or bundles of crystals in the mass, Cava Vitiello, Terzigno, Somma-Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy.
17. Fluorite: whitish octahedral crystals, San Vito, Ercolano, Somma-Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy.
18. Fluor-potassicrichterite TL: cluster of blue-green crystals, Amendolare Lag, Sant'Anastasia, Somma-Vesuvius, Naples, Campania, Italy.
19. Forsterite: TL crystals gray or colorless and transparent, with black spinel, San Vito, Ercolano, Somma-Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy.
20. Gehlenite: squared, brown crystals, ex coll. Panunzi, Somma-Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy.
21. "Garnet" means brown rombododecahedral crystals, ex coll. Panunzi, Somma-Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy.
22. Geikielite: dark hexagonal tabular crystals, San Vito, Ercolano, Somma-Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy.
23. "Guarinite" TL: packages of yellow crystals, ex coll. Panunzi, Somma-Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy.
24. Hauyne: blue granules, ex coll. Panunzi, Somma-Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy.
25. "Horneblende": elongated black crystals, ex coll. Panunzi, Somma-Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy.
26. "Humite": TL brown complex crystals, ex coll. Panunzi, Somma-Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy.
27. Hydroxylbritholite-Ce: green hexagonal tabular crystals, ex coll. Panunzi, Somma-Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy.
28. Kaliophilite: TL bundles of brown crystals, ex coll. Panunzi, Somma-Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy.
29. Kalsilite: brown cariati crystals, Pollena, Somma-Vesuvius, Naples, Campania, Italy.
30. Lazurite: blue lumps, ex coll. Panunzi, Somma-Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy.
31. Leucite: TL white icositetrahedral crystals, ex coll. Panunzi, Somma-Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy.
32. Magnetite: metal nail-head crystals, with yellow diopside, ex-coll. Panunzi, Somma-Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy.
33. Marialite: unusually finished siliceous crystals, Cava Le Novelle, Ercolano, Somma-Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy.
34. Meionite: TL white or colorless elongated prismatic crystals, ex-coll. Panunzi, Somma-Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy.
35. "Mica": packets of green hexagonal crystals with calcite, ex coll. Panunzi, Somma-Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy.
36. Molybdenite: metallic flakes, San Vito, Ercolano, Somma-Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy.
37. Montesommaite: TL colorless truncated bipiramides, with "merlinoite", Lagno Amendolare, Sant'Anastasia, Somma-Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy.
38. Mordenite: section of white elongated crystal urchins, Cava Vitiello, Terzigno, Somma-Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy.
39. Nepheline: TL colorless hexagonal prisms, ex coll. Panunzi, Somma-Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy.
40. Norbergite: colorless complex crystal, San Vito, Ercolano, Somma-Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy.
41. Periclase: TL octahedral crystals or green granules in insanely showy limestone, San Vito, Ercolano, Somma-Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy.
42. Phillipsite: white crystals, Cava Vitiello, Terzigno, Somma-Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy.
43. Pseudobrookite: red tablets, Lagno Amendolare, Sant'Anastasia, Somma-Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy.
44. Pyroclore: small yellow octahedral crystals, San Vito, Ercolano, Somma-Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy.
45. Quartz: transparent and colorless prismatic crystals, ex coll. Panunzi, Somma-Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy.
46. Sanidino: colorless and transparent tabular crystals, ex coll. Panunzi, Somma-Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy.
47. Sodalite: pneumatolytic crystals, ex coll. Panunzi, Somma-Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy.
48. Spinel: black octahedra crystal, ex coll. Panunzi, Somma-Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy.
49. Spinel: complex rose crystals, San Vito, Ercolano, Somma-Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy.
50. Tenorite: TL metal scales, ex coll. Panunzi, area below the Macchia Gialla, Somma-Vesuvius, Naples, Campania, Italy.
51. Thomsonite: whitish tabular crystals, ex coll. Panunzi, Somma-Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy.
52. Thorite: extended prism green crystal, ex coll. Panunzi, Somma-Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy.
53. Titanite: orange crystals, ex coll. Panunzi, Somma-Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy.
54. Uraninite: small complex, metallic cubic crystals, San Vito, Ercolano, Somma-Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy.
55. Vesuvianite: TL complex brown crystals, ex coll. Panunzi, Somma-Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy.
56. Vonsenite: thin black needles, Amendular Lagno, Sant'Anastasia, Somma-Vesuvius, Naples, Campania, Italy.
57. Wollastonite: elongated brown crystals, San Vito, Ercolano, Somma-Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy.
58. Acicular fibrous zeolites: white urchins, Cava Vitiello, Terzigno, Somma-Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy.
59. Zircon: blue octahedron, ex coll. Panunzi, Somma-Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy.
60. Zirconolite: red crystals with metallic perovskite, Cava Le Novelle, Ercolano, Somma-Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy.