Heulandite Subgroup

Item Description

This piece was simply labeled as coming from "Scotland", and we're not certain specifically where it was found (possibly in the Kilpatrick Hills), but if there are any UK mineral experts out there who can help us with a more specific locality, please reach out and let us know. With that said, the specimen hosts rich orange-red colored, layered monoclinic crystal groups of Heulandite (presumably Heulandite-Ca) measuring up to 1.4 cm, on basalt matrix. Most of the crystals are in good condition, but there is a bit of roughness around the edges where it was removed from the pocket wall. From the collection of Chester ("Chet") S. Lemanski Jr. of Browns Mills, New Jersey (https://www.mindat.org/user-461.html). Collection #2985CL. 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.