Fluorapatite (rare locality specimen)

Item Description

A beautiful, and frankly hard to find "hand-sized" specimen of Fluorapatite from the Julcani District in Peru featuring dozens of sharp, lustrous, gemmy, colorless, hexagonal prismatic crystals of Fluorapatite measuring up to about 3 mm, sitting atop a matrix composed of Galena, Sphalerite and Chalcopyrite crystals. One of the VERY few pieces of this material that we've had to offer over the years, and it has more crystals on it than any other piece I can remember offering. Good lilac fluorescence under SW UV light too!
From the collection of Chester ("Chet") S. Lemanski Jr. of Browns Mills, New Jersey (https://www.mindat.org/user-461.html). Collection #23207CL. 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.