Zoisite (rare locality - ''floater'' specimen)

Item Description

Here we have an elusive specimen of Zoisite from the "Alpine-type" cleft deposit at Alchuri, Pakistan. Zoisite is best-known to collectors in its blue variety, Tanzanite, but the pieces from Alchuri are a distinct green hue. This piece is a beautiful crystal group featuring sharp, lustrous, gemmy strong green colored prisms of Zoisite, free of matrix. If you look closely, you can see that the bottom of the group is actually fully crystallized (multi-terminated), making this specimen a complete "floater". One of the better examples of this material in this quality that we have had to offer from Pakistan in the auctions.
From the collection of Chester ("Chet") S. Lemanski Jr. of Browns Mills, New Jersey (https://www.mindat.org/user-461.html). Collection #19046CL. 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.