Agrellite with Vlasovite and Eudialyte (ex Chet Lemanski Collection)

Item Description

A rare association specimen from the Kipawa alkaline complex in Québec, featuring a large patch of soft blue-grey colored Agrellite (for which the Kipawa alkaline complex is the type locality) associated with small areas of brownish Vlasovite and vibrant pinkish-red Eudialyte. The Agrellite is a bit crude on the front, but when you flip it over, you can see there are some well-defined crystals! You don't see many of these on the market anymore, so don't pass this one up if you collect rarities or odd association pieces. From the collection of Chester ("Chet") S. Lemanski Jr. of Browns Mills, New Jersey (https://www.mindat.org/user-461.html). Collection #6550CL. Chet was born 1947 in started collecting minerals circa 1957. He worked briefly as a drill runner at the famous Sterling Mine, in Ogdensburg, New Jersey and from 1987 to 1990 he helped convert the mine into a public access mining museum. He has held the role of treasurer, vice president and president of the Franklin-Ogdensburg Mineralogical Society (FOMS), and has been a board member and vice president of the Franklin Mineral Museum. The rare copper arsenate, Lemanskiite was named in his honor in 1999.