Scapolite (Meionite) with Titanite (ex Chet Lemanski Collection)

Item Description

A classic association specimen from the famous Bear Lake locality in Quebec featuring many sharp, prismatic, well-formed white crystals of Scapolite (specifically Meionite) measuring up to 2.1 cm long with one predominant, very sharp, well-formed, jet-black, "wedge"-shaped Titanite crystal measuring 8 mm. There are some additional partial Titanite crystals on the piece, but the main Titanite is the focus. Some of the Meionite crystals are contacted, but the majority of them are terminated. These specimens are few and far between these days, so if you've always wanted one, be sure to pick this one up. From the collection of Chester ("Chet") S. Lemanski Jr. of Browns Mills, New Jersey (https://www.mindat.org/user-461.html). Collection #2882CL. 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.