Stilbite Subgroup (very rare locality)

Item Description

A remarkably hard to find display specimen of the Stilbite Subgroup (the specific species is not know, but it's likely Stilbite-Ca) featuring attractive, lustrous, white crystal aggregates and "sheaf"-like groups in high relief on matrix with a lone Pyrite crystal flaring off the side from the Giken Mine in Norway. I can't remember ever seeing another Stilbite from this locality (which is actually a Copper mine according to the entry on mindat.org). The piece has a few saw marks on the base/back, and it actually sits up on its own to display easily without a base or clay. If you collect zeolites or rare locality specimens, this is something that I'll bet you don't have in your collection, and it's the kind of piece you can only find in such a deep, comprehensive collection like Chet's. A great opportunity to pick up something that is virtually unseen on the market today.
From the collection of Chester ("Chet") S. Lemanski Jr. of Browns Mills, New Jersey (https://www.mindat.org/user-461.html). Collection #22708CL. 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.