Monte Valerio, Campiglia Marittima, Livorno Province, Tuscany, Italy

Cluster of brilliant crystals on white matrix. Photo and private collection of Marco Macchieraldo.

© Marco Macchieraldo

Photo and collection Luigi Chiappino.

Collection Francesco Bonotti.

© Gianandrea Ghirri

peter neschen collection (I-0462-05) Nikon D7000 + Sigma 150mm Apo Macro + Helicon Focus Methode B

Snow-white dolomite in cavities of brown goethite. Purchased from Marco Pistolesi in May 2023.

Cassiterite crystals in a detached fragment from a small vug within a historical specimen documented by an 1876 handwritten label, from the Cento Camerelle sector, Monte Valerio, Campiglia Marittima, Livorno Province, Tuscany, Italy. The cassiterite forms very lustrous, yellowish olive-green, short prismatic to bipyramidal crystals, approximately ...

© Chinellato Matteo - Chinellatophoto.it

Historical handwritten label associated with the cassiterite specimen from Campiglia Marittima, Livorno Province, Tuscany, Italy. The label records “oxide d’étain” — cassiterite — and calcite, and bears the date 1876, the same year in which cassiterite from the Campiglia Marittima area, including Monte Valerio, Monte Fumacchio and Cento ...

© Simone and Sofia Rapaccini