Description
Hematite from Rio Marina on the Tuscan island of Elba. What can I say? The locality has set the standard for the species; it has been worked since the Etruscan culture emerged almost 3,000 years ago. And this specimen is a beauty from the locality: Sharp, steel gray, chunky and with a great red-purple tarnish. A great classsic from a classic locality. And if you wipe the fingerprints from the metallic luster of crystal faces it gets even better.