Spinel on marble (ex Chet Lemanski Collection)

Lục Yên District, Yên Bái Province, Vietnam
Cabinet, 12.0 x 7.3 x 5.1 cm
Start Time: 09/30/2021 8:00:00 pm (CDT)
End Time: 10/07/2021 6:50:00 pm (CDT)
Auction Closed
Winning Bid: $279

Item Description

PLEASE NOTE: This specimen was originally labeled as coming from Yunnan China, but it's almost certainly from the Luc Yen District in Vietnam, as many specimens in the early 2000s were brought across the border and sold as originating in China. With that said, this piece is a nice representation of this now classic material featuring several, rich ruby red colored octahedral crystals measuring up to 1.8 cm sitting on stark white marble matrix with minor orange-brown Chondrodite and gemmy pale golden colored crystals of an unknown mineral (possibly Phlogopite?). Overall, the piece is in fairly good shape, though not all of the Spinel crystals are 100% complete. It's not easy to get your hands on cabinet sized piece of this material now, as it seems very little is coming out of this locality these days. From the collection of Chester ("Chet") S. Lemanski Jr. of Browns Mills, New Jersey (https://www.mindat.org/user-461.html). Collection #20849CL. 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
$279 10/07/2021 6:40:24 pm (CDT)
$269 10/07/2021 6:39:46 pm (CDT)
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