The Top Rocks project is born in 2017 when Federico and Lapo started sharing their passion for minerals. A small business began and grew rapidly. Now we have our first own website and despite it’s not a webshop yet (tomorrow we might grow again…) you can always find here our updates and new specimen, our pictures, our videos, news on mineral shows.
We live in Florence, in Italy, “la Culla del Rinascimento”. Florence is the capital of Tuscany, a very important region for the world mineralogy. Tuscany is indeed very well known among collectors for some of the best pyrite specimens in the world, shiny stibnites, cinnabar, but probably most of all for minerals coming from the small Elba Island: elbaite, beryls, pyrite and hematite, ilvaite. In order to have an idea of the complex mineralogy and the rich collecting history in Tuscany we recommend you to have a look on mindat.org were you’ll find the complete mineral list and a not-so-complete site list.
We both collect minerals since we were young and we spend as much as possible our free time in field collecting, just afterwards we sell something and exchange something of our collection.
Tuscan mineralogy is quite obviously our main field, but we have a very special relationship with the island of Sardinia and its mineralogy, as you’ll see a considerable amount of specimen from Sardinia is indeed available. Anyway our interest is in minerals worldwide and we often offer and buy specimen from many different locations.
We hope you’ll enjoy our activity and remember, if you’ll ever come to Tuscany do not hesitate to contact us, we can host yiou and maybe show you something special or even manage a mineralogical trip!