Fluorite (classic material) (ex Chet Lemanski Collection)

Item Description

Here we have a lovely old Heights Mine specimen featuring sharp, lustrous, gemmy, green colored cubic Fluorite crystals measuring up to 1.1 cm on edge on matrix. Several of the crystals show excellent penetration twinning on a cube diagonal angle, which is oft the case with Weardale Fluorites. The piece is in good shape with very little damage. The piece not only fluoresces under SW UV light, but also show the classic Weardale daylight fluorescence which shows strong purple hues against the green. From the collection of Chester ("Chet") S. Lemanski Jr. of Browns Mills, New Jersey (https://www.mindat.org/user-461.html). Collection #0571CL. 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.