Fluorite (ex Chet Lemanski Collection)

Item Description

An interesting "oddball" locality specimen from Rossport, Ontario featuring cubic crystals of Fluorite measuring up to 1.0 cm on edge ranging in color from a deep purple hue to white. The central crystals are in good shape, but the edge of the piece is contacted where it was removed from the pocket, 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 #7033CL. 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.