Datolite (ex Chet Lemanski Collection)

Item Description

A wonderful example of the fine quality Datolites from the well known Roncari Quarry in Connecticut. This piece is an excellent, large, thick, sharp, lustrous, translucent pale green and white crystal of Datolite, free of matrix. Virtually undamaged on the display side (a few small nicks can be seen), and it has a separation mark underneath where it was removed from the pocket wall, but it's a wonderful example of this now hard to find material. I can say that this crystal is better than the majority of pieces we've had to offer over the years in terms of size and quality. From the collection of Chester ("Chet") S. Lemanski Jr. of Browns Mills, New Jersey (https://www.mindat.org/user-461.html). Collection #18621CL. 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.