Heulandite (rare pink color) (ex Chet Lemanski Collection)

Item Description

The famous Prospect Park Quarry in New Jersey for many years was the source of excellent zeolite specimens along with some world class Prehnites. This piece is a wonderful Heulandite from this famous locale featuring "fan"-shaped groups measuring up to 2.2 cm, with a predominantly white hue, and pink highlights from minor oxide content to create a beautiful two-tone effect. This color is rarely seen in Heulandite, not only from Prospect Park, but any locality. Sadly, this locality is now permanently closed, and will never produce more of these specimens again. From the collection of Chester ("Chet") S. Lemanski Jr. of Browns Mills, New Jersey (https://www.mindat.org/user-461.html). Collection #20321CL. 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.