Fluorite (ex Chet Lemanski Collection)

Item Description

This is a beautiful small cabinet sized piece of the famous Fluorites from the Johannes Shaft in Wolsendorf. This specimen is filled with lustrous, gemmy crystals of Fluorite with a rich golden color measuring up to 7 mm on matrix. Most of the crystals are in good shape, but there are several contacted crystals, so it's not completely undamaged. From the collection of Chester ("Chet") S. Lemanski Jr. of Browns Mills, New Jersey (https://www.mindat.org/user-461.html). Collection #7084CL. 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.