Quartz with Actinolite inclusions (ex Chet Lemanski Collection)

Item Description

The locality at Alchuri in Pakistan in an "Alpine-type" deposit that has yielded specimens very similar to the true Alpine pieces from the European Alps, especially Austria. This piece features a diverging pair of elongated, narrow, prisms of milky-white Quartz which are included, dark green Actinolite crystals, sitting on white Feldspar matrix. It's honestly unlike anything I can remember seeing from Alchuri in the past, and displays beautifully as you can see from the photos. A must have for any fan of metamorphic minerals, worldwide Quartz, or unusual inclusion minerals. From the collection of Chester ("Chet") S. Lemanski Jr. of Browns Mills, New Jersey (https://www.mindat.org/user-461.html). Collection #19014CL. 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.