Tourmaline (multicolor) (ex Chet Lemanski Collection)

Item Description

A beautiful multicolor ("watermelon") Tourmaline from Nuristan, Afghanistan featuring soft blue and green color zoning over a pink central "core". Both the termination and the outer "rind" of the piece are overgrowing the pink section of the Tourmaline, making this a true "watermelon" and not just a pink and green bi-colored crystal. A few minor imperfections can be seen on the termination, and the piece is contacted at the base where it detached from the pocket wall like most Tourmalines, so it's in fine shape as far as I'm concerned. A beautiful classic example of these famous Tourmaline crystals. Specimen weight is 11.59 grams. From the collection of Chester ("Chet") S. Lemanski Jr. of Browns Mills, New Jersey (https://www.mindat.org/user-461.html). Collection #19031CL. 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.