Anhydrite (ex Chet Lemanski Collection)

Item Description

A beautiful light blue color "fan"-shaped Anhydrite crystal group with excellent striated form and a good termination. Such an elegant form and beautiful color for a mineral that is not often found in fine crystallized examples. Some of the best pieces of Anhydrite in the world are found at Naica. From the collection of Chester ("Chet") S. Lemanski Jr. of Browns Mills, New Jersey (https://www.mindat.org/user-461.html). Collection #1680CL 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.