Stilbite with Apophyllite (ex Chet Lemanski Collection)

Item Description

A beautiful "sheaf"-like group of vitreous, translucent, off-white colored Stilbite crystals with minor associated Apophyllite crystals on the back from the lesser known Mahadari Quarry in India. The Stilbite group is technically half of a "bow tie", and displays beautifully as you can see from the photos. From the collection of Chester ("Chet") S. Lemanski Jr. of Browns Mills, New Jersey (https://www.mindat.org/user-461.html). Collection #2685CL. 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.