Analcime (good sized crystal) (ex Chet Lemanski Collection)

Item Description

A lot of people probably aren't aware that some of the best (and largest) examples of Analcime from anywhere in the Western Hemisphere are those from the Chimney Rock Quarry in New Jersey. You don't see many of these pieces on the market anymore, and if you're a fan of zeolite minerals, you need one of these in your collection. This specimen features an attractive, good sized, sharp, chalk white trapezohedron of Analcime, free of matrix. The piece is complete on the top, but incomplete on the bottom where it detached from the pocket wall. A nearly 2-inch Analcime crystal is impressive regardless of where it's from, and this is certainly a very worthwhile example from this classic New Jersey trap rock locality. From the collection of Chester ("Chet") S. Lemanski Jr. of Browns Mills, New Jersey (https://www.mindat.org/user-461.html). Collection #2783CL. 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.