Grossular Garnet (GEM!) (ex Chet Lemanski Collection)

Item Description

The Jeffrey Mine was the source of some of the most distinctive and magnificent quality Garnet crystals ever found. The rich orange "cinnamon" colored Grossular are celebrated for their unique orange color, gemminess, top luster and superb "textbook" form. This specimen is a cluster of excellent, quality, sharp, lustrous, peach-orange colored, GEM QUALITY, modified dodecahedral crystals of Grossular which measure up to 1.1 cm across free of matrix. Very little damage, save the periphery where it was removed from the pocket wall. When backlit, you can see that several crystals are WATER CLEAR! The reverse side of the specimen is crystallized as well. Jeffrey is finished, no more specimens will ever be found, so get these while you can. From the collection of Chester ("Chet") S. Lemanski Jr. of Browns Mills, New Jersey (https://www.mindat.org/user-461.html). Collection #18878CL. 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.