Stilbite-(Ca) on Laumontite (ex Chet Lemanski Collection)

Item Description

A beautiful combination of soft peach-golden colored bladed crystal groups of Stilbite-(Ca) measuring up to 1.7 cm sitting on a layer of white Laumontite matrix from the lesser known Lonavala Quarry. The top/display side of the piece is loaded with crystals. Very good quality all around, no major damage anywhere that I can see, outside of the periphery where it was removed from the pocket wall. From the collection of Chester ("Chet") S. Lemanski Jr. of Browns Mills, New Jersey (https://www.mindat.org/user-461.html). Collection #4451CL. 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.