Schorl (rare locality)

Item Description

An unusual and rarely seen specimen of Schorl from Santa Cruz, Mexico featuring radial "bursts" of thin prismatic crystals with a somewhat "waxy" luster, free of matrix. The style of crystal growth is highly unusual for any species of Tourmaline, and when you throw in the oddball Mexican locality, you have something unique.
From the collection of Chester ("Chet") S. Lemanski Jr. of Browns Mills, New Jersey (https://www.mindat.org/user-461.html). Collection #13861CL. 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.