Scapolite (Meionite) (ex Chet Lemanski Collection)

Item Description

A wonderful small cabinet specimen of the Scapolites from Otter Lake featuring a 6.0 cm, prismatic, white crystal associated with a few smaller partial Scapolites on a matrix of dark green Diopside and Calcite. The catalogue collection entry for this specimen states that the species is Meionite. The main Scapolite is very good sized for the locality, and it's complete and terminated. Excellent condition and rarely seen on the market today. From the collection of Chester ("Chet") S. Lemanski Jr. of Browns Mills, New Jersey (https://www.mindat.org/user-461.html). Collection #2905CL. 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.