Schorl (with slight color zoning) on Smoky Quartz with Albite

Item Description

An attractive showy small cabinet sized specimen from Bulochi, Pakistan specimen featuring a prominent, lustrous, prismatic, terminated, black Schorl crystal measuring 5.7 cm aesthetically set atop a Smoky Quartz crystal associated with off-white colored Albite. With strong backlighting, you can see that the termination is not opaque and black, but actually features a tiny bit of color zoning with small areas of blue, green and yellow hues. No major damage that I can see, no repairs either. Mined in the late 1990s. The crystals also shows a slight "cat's eye" quality along the prism when it is rotated in the light.
From the collection of Chester ("Chet") S. Lemanski Jr. of Browns Mills, New Jersey (https://www.mindat.org/user-461.html). Collection #18847CL. 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.