Celestine with Calcite (ex Chet Lemanski Collection)

Item Description

Here we have a classic specimen from the Holloway Quarry (Rockwood Quarry) in Michigan featuring pale grey-blue colored, prismatic "sword"-shaped crystals of Celestine with a couple of golden gemmy trigonal crystals of Calcite measuring up to 1.1 cm. The exterior of the Celestine crystals are almost white, but the interior shows a richer blue color. Please note that this specimen is repaired. From the collection of Chester ("Chet") S. Lemanski Jr. of Browns Mills, New Jersey (https://www.mindat.org/user-461.html). Collection #6241CL. 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.