This group includes 50 champions all coming from the Vesuvio-Monte Somma, some rare or very rare. Size MM and TN. All in box. Weightabout 600 gr.
In the pictures: Calcioaravaipaite, Challacolloite, Chondrodite, Cotunnite, “Guarinite”, Thomsonite, Vesuvianite, Vonsenite, Zircone.
Actinolite: bundles of white crystals in limestone, Vallone di San Sebastiano, Somma Vesuvius, Naples, Campania, Italy,
Anorthite TL: transparent and colorless complex crystals, San Vito, Ercolano, Naples, Campania, Italy;
"Apatite": elongated transparent and colorless crystals, Villa Inglese, Torre del Greco, Naples
Aragonite: white tufts, ex coll. Panunzi, Somma-Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy;;
Baddeleyite: vertically striated green tablets, San Vito, Ercolano, Naples, Campania, Italy;
Brochantite: little groups of green crystals, Vesuvius Crater 1944, Naples, Campania, Italy;
Calcioaravaipaite: rosettes of white tabular crystals, Vesuvius Crater, Herculaneum, Naples, Campania, Italy
Cerussite: brilliant opalescent crystals, Vesuvius Crater, Herculaneum, Naples, Campania, Italy
Challacolloite: small milk white crystals aggregated arborescent, Vesuvius Crater, Herculaneum, Naples, Campania, Italy
Chondrodite: complex yellow, transparent crystals, San Vito, Ercolano, Naples, Campania, Italy;
Cotunnite TL: : white crystals sometimes in crust, Crater Vesuvius, Herculaneum, Naples
Coulsellite: groups of transparent and colorless octahedral crystals, Crater Vesuvius, Herculaneum, Naples
Crysocolla: green deposition on magnetite, personal discovery, the Novelle quarry, Herculaneum, Naples, Campania, Italy;
Cuspidine TL: pink crystals with spear tip in vesuvianite, ex coll. Panunzi, Somma-Vesuvio, Herculaneum, Naples, Campania, Italy;
"Davyne" TL: vertically striated barrel-shaped crystals, unusually transparent and colorless, San Vito, Ercolano, Naples, Campania, Italy;
Diopside: yellow crystals, ex coll. Panunzi, Somma-Vesuvio, Herculaneum, Naples, Campania, Italy;
Diopside: green crystals, ex coll. Panunzi, Somma-Vesuvio, Herculaneum, Naples, Campania, Italy
Enstatite: elongated yellow crystals, Cava Le Novelle, Ercolano, Naples, Campania, Italy;
Fayalite: bronze crystals with white sodalite, Pollena, Pollena Trocchia, Naples, Campania, Italy;
Fluorite: colorless and transparent octahedra, San Vito, Ercolano, Naples, Campania, Italy
Forsterite TL: yellow crystals, ex coll. Panunzi, Somma-Vesuvio, Herculaneum, Naples, Campania, Italy;
Gehlenite: brown squared crystals, ex coll. Panunzi, Somma-Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy
Geikielite: dark complex crystal, San Vito, Ercolano, Naples, Campania, Italy;
"Garnet": red rhombododecahedral crystals, ex coll. Panunzi, Somma-Vesuvio, Herculaneum, Naples, Campania, Italy;
Guarinite: packages of yellow crystals with tabular crystals of colorless sanidine, ex coll. Panunzi, Somma-Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy;
Gypsum: transparent and colorless monoclinic crystals, Trapolino Quarry, Sant’Anastasia, Naples, Campania, Italy
Hausmannite: dark deposition on gray lava "of 1631", Villa Inglese, Torre del Greco, Naples, Campania, Italy;
Hauyna: blue granules, ex coll. Panunzi, Somma-Vesuvio, Herculaneum, Naples, Campania, Italy;
"Humite" TL: orange complex crystals, San Vito, Ercolano, Naples, Campania, Italy;
Leucite TL: crystals white icositetrahedral, Eremo al Vesuvio, Ercolano, Naples, Campania, Italy;
Magnetite: lead-colored crystal "a testa di chiodo", ex coll. Panunzi, Somma-Vesuvio, Herculaneum, Naples
Matlockite: transparent and colorless micaceous crystals, Vesuvius Crater, Herculaneum, Naples
Meionite TL: group of white elongated crystals, San Vito, Ercolano, Naples, Campania, Italy;
Mimetite: yellow acicular crystals, Vesuvius Crater, Herculaneum, Naples
Nepheline TL: hexagonal white prisms with orange lance-tipped titanite, ex-coll. Panunzi, Somma-Vesuvio, Herculaneum, Naples
Opal: white formations, Cratere Vesuvio, Ercolano, Somma Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy
Pyroclore: small yellow octahedra, San Vito, Ercolano, Naples, Campania, Italy;
Sanidine: colorless and transparent tablets, ex coll. Panunzi, Somma-Vesuvio, Herculaneum, Naples, Campania, Italy;
Sfalerite: rounded metallic crystals, San Vito, Ercolano, Naples, Campania, Italy;
Sodalite: white elongated crystals, ex coll. Panunzi, Somma-Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy
Spinel: black octahedron crystals, ex coll. Panunzi, Somma-Vesuvio, Herculaneum, Naples, Campania, Italy;
Spinel: dark pourple octahedron crystals , ex coll. Panunzi, Somma-Vesuvio, Herculaneum, Naples, Campania, Italy;
Sylvite TL: colorless hoctahedral crystals, Vesuvius Crater, Herculaneum, Naples, Campania, Italy
Tenorite TL: crystals or metal flakes, ex coll. Panunzi, area below the "Macchia gialla" of the slopes of the Vesuvian Cone, Ercolano, Naples, Campania, Italy;
Thomsonite: group of semitransparent crystals, ex coll. Panunzi, Somma-Vesuvio, Herculaneum, Naples, Campania, Italy;
Thoriante: metallic cube, ex coll. Panunzi, Somma-Vesuvio, Naples, Campania, Italy;
Titanite: lance-spike crystals, yellow, San Vito, Herculaneum, Naples, Campania, Italy;
Vesuvianite TL: brown prismatic crystals, ex coll. Panunzi, Somma-Vesuvio, Herculaneum, Naples, Campania, Italy;
Vonsenite: dark elongated crystals, Trapolino Quarry, Sant'Anastasia, Naples, Campania, Italy;
Zircon: light blue octahedral crystals, ex coll. Panunzi, Somma-Vesuvio, Herculaneum, Naples, Campania, Italy;
