Mauro Rapazzini's Photo Gallery
TN0-38KFluorite CaF2
Dimensions: 10.0 cm x 4.0 cm x 9.0 cm
Specimen with octahedral fluorite crystals, some interpenetrated, green in the center and purple on edges, from De'an fluorite mine, China.
Finding: about 2005
Overall piece size: 10.0 x 4.0 x 9.0 cm
Mauro Rapazzini private collection.
39X-EYXQuartz (Var: Smoky Quartz) SiO2
Dimensions: 12.0 cm x 7.5 cm x 8.0 cm
Specimen with transparent, terminated, lustrous, light brown to dark brown crystals of smoky quartz.
Finding: about 1990
Overall piece size: 12.0 x 7.5 x 8.0 cm
Mauro Rapazzini private collection.
F47-0M8Ludwigite Mg2Fe3+(BO3)O2 , Szaibélyite MgBO2(OH)
Dimensions: 9.0 cm x 3.5 cm x 7.0 cm
Largest Crystal Size: 40 mm
Very fresh, not altered specimen of ludwigite (black) and szaibelyite (white), personally found in the Brosso mine. The research of ludwigite was the prologue which brought me to the discover of a new mineral named canavesite.
Finding: about 1972.
Mauro Rapazzini private collection.
6G7-XKVErythrite Co3(AsO4)2·8H2O
Dimensions: 9.0 cm x 4.0 cm x 7.5 cm
Specimen of lustrous , deep purplish red and pale pink erythrite crystals on matrix from Morocco .
Finding: about 2010.
Mauro Rapazzini private collection.
G46-99MChalcedony (Var: Agate) SiO2
Dimensions: 13.5 cm x 0.5 cm x 12.0 cm
Nice polished slab of agate with gray , pale blue natural colours with quartz crystals in the centre .
Finding: about 2008
Overall piece size: 13.5 x 0.5 x 12.0 cm
Mauro Rapazzini private collection.
7YY-VDXAragonite CaCO3
Dimensions: 8.5 cm x 7.5 cm x 8.0 cm
"Old time" specimen of pale green, translucent, terminated, pseudo-hexagonal aragonite crystals. Very fluorescent under long-wave UV light with a deep pink color. Very difficult to find nowadays.
Finding: about 1971.
Mauro Rapazzini private collection.
LY5-6MLChalcedony (Var: Agate) SiO2
Dimensions: 5.0 cm x 2.5 cm x 4.0 cm
Agate specimen totally polished with nice natural colours from Mexico .
Finding: about 1976
Mauro Rapazzini private collection .
WL3-JCDQuartz (Var: Smoky Quartz) SiO2
Dimensions: 8.0 cm x 7.0 cm x 8.0 cm
" Old time "aesthetic specimen of lustrous , transparent , light brown smoky quartz crystals .
Finding: about 1970
Overall piece size: 8.0 x 7.0 x 8.0 cm
Mauro Rapazzini private collection .
W15-5JPManganese Oxides (Var: Manganese Dendrites)
Dimensions: 12.0 cm x 1.0 cm x 6.5 cm
"Artistic" specimen of black manganese dendrites (manganese oxides) on beige limestone matrix. The sample was cut around the perimeter.
Finding: about 1972
Overall piece size: 12.0 x 1.0 x 6.5 cm
Mauro Rapazzini private collection.
5N3-H92Quartz (Var: Amethyst) SiO2
Dimensions: 4.5 cm x 1.7 cm x 1.5 cm
Specimen of lustrous, transparent sceptre amethyst crystal with pale to medium purple color, without matrix .
Finding : about 1978.
Mauro Rapazzini private collection.
