Morganite (ex Chet Lemanski Collection)

Item Description

Here we have a beautiful GEM QUALITY group of sharp, highly lustrous, tabular, soft pink colored crystals of Morganite Beryl from an undisclosed locality in Minas Gerais, Brazil. The piece is in great shape overall, though it does have a contact on the underside where it was removed from the pocket. The crystals are highly modified, and not the typical hexagonal shape we're used to seeing in Morganite. It's hard to find good Brazilian Morganites on the market these days, and this piece is a good overall thumbnail display specimen of this classic material. Specimen weight is 6.09 grams. From the collection of Chester ("Chet") S. Lemanski Jr. of Browns Mills, New Jersey (https://www.mindat.org/user-461.html). Collection #20464CL. 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.