Nepheline with Calcite

Town of Bancroft, Hastings County, Ontario, Canada
Small Cabinet, 7.7 x 6.3 x 5.0 cm
Start Time: 08/04/2022 8:30:00 pm (CDT)
End Time: 08/11/2022 6:45:00 pm (CDT)
Auction Closed
Winning Bid: $80

Item Description

A cool combo specimen from Bancroft, Ontario featuring soft yellow color blocky crystals of Nepheline sitting on pale pinkish Calcite matrix. The Nephelines show a light yellow hue under UV light, and the Calcites fluoresce a rich pink color. From the collection of Chester ("Chet") S. Lemanski Jr. of Browns Mills, New Jersey (https://www.mindat.org/user-461.html). Collection #2809CL. 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.

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Bidding History

Bid Amount Bid Time
$80 08/11/2022 6:27:01 pm (CDT)
$70 08/11/2022 6:27:01 pm (CDT)
$60 08/11/2022 6:26:54 pm (CDT)
$50 08/11/2022 6:26:54 pm (CDT)
$45 08/11/2022 6:26:46 pm (CDT)
$40 08/11/2022 6:26:46 pm (CDT)
$35 08/11/2022 6:03:30 pm (CDT)
$30 08/11/2022 6:03:30 pm (CDT)
$20 08/11/2022 4:20:47 pm (CDT)
$15 08/11/2022 4:13:15 pm (CDT)
$10 08/06/2022 7:40:52 pm (CDT)