Fluorite (hard to find locale) (ex Chet Lemanski Collection)

Item Description

A rather large (for the locality) single Fluorite cube from the Stoneco Quarry in Lime City, Ohio. The piece is labeled as coming from Lime City in the Chet's collection catalogue, although it is quite similar in color and style to the famous golden-brown Fluorites from Clay Center in neighboring Ottawa County. The piece is one of the largest single cubes I've seen from Lime City and is notably sharp, lustrous and well-formed. It's complete all around, and the only real damage is a couple of contacts on the corners. The color ranges from a light amber hue to a darker golden-brown tone. The crystal itself has a few smaller cubic overgrowths, which give the piece character and the small amount of dolostone matrix give the piece a three-dimensional displayability. From the collection of Chester ("Chet") S. Lemanski Jr. of Browns Mills, New Jersey (https://www.mindat.org/user-461.html). Collection #16005CL. 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.