Schorl with Albite

Item Description

An attractive showy miniature sized specimen from Shengus specimen featuring a prominent, lustrous, prismatic, terminated, black Schorl crystal measuring 2.7 cm with a smaller such crystal, both setting on contrasting, crystallized, off-white colored Albite. I can see a few small nicks on the terminations of the Schorl crystals, but the piece is largely in great shape. Mined in the late 1990s. The Albite shows a reddish-pink fluorescence under SW UV light
From the collection of Chester ("Chet") S. Lemanski Jr. of Browns Mills, New Jersey (https://www.mindat.org/user-461.html). Collection #19128CL. The piece was originally from the collection of Dan Serebrakian. 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.