Tourmaline (ex Chet Lemanski Collection)

Item Description

A lovely gemmy soft steel-blue colored Tourmaline crystal from Brazil with an essentially opaque termination of a pastel greenish-yellow hue. According to the collection catalogue, Chet purchased this piece in 1984, so it's easily a 40 year old crystal, if not older. From the collection of Chester ("Chet") S. Lemanski Jr. of Browns Mills, New Jersey (https://www.mindat.org/user-461.html). Collection #2536CL. 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.