Polylithionite with Serandite (ex Chet Lemanski Collection)

Item Description

Here we have a very showy and fine quality display specimen features gorgeous "flower"-like groups of Polylithionite comprising pseudo-metallic, silvery, thin bladed crystals which are "speared" through lengthwise by a long-prismatic, flattened, doubly-terminated, salmon-pink Serandite crystal. The composition, association and overall quality makes this a highly desirable and beautiful specimen from this world-famous locality. Now that MSH is mostly off limits, collecting has been limited / reduced in recent years, so if you collect minerals from this world famous quarry, don't miss out on this attractive specimen. From the collection of Chester ("Chet") S. Lemanski Jr. of Browns Mills, New Jersey (https://www.mindat.org/user-461.html). Collection #20216CL. 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.