Fluorite (classic material) (ex Chet Lemanski Collection)

Item Description

Some of the most classic Fluorite specimens from any European locality are those from the Berbes District in Spain. This cabinet sized specimen features sharp, lustrous, gemm, purple crystals measuring up to 1.0 cm with minor associated with bladed Barites and small Quartz crystals on matrix. The habit of the Fluorite crystals is mainly cubic, but very thin dodecahedral modifications can be seen along the edges. A few crystals are contacted, but the majority of them are in very good condition. From the collection of Chester ("Chet") S. Lemanski Jr. of Browns Mills, New Jersey (https://www.mindat.org/user-461.html). Collection #6996CL. 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.