Fluorite (ex Chet Lemanski Collection)

Item Description

Soft blue-green colored cubic crystals of Fluorite measuring up to 2.7 cm on edge sit atop Quartz matrix from an undisclosed locality in Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan. You don't see a lot of cubic Pakistan from this area, most of them are octahedral or dodecahedral in habit. From the collection of Chester ("Chet") S. Lemanski Jr. of Browns Mills, New Jersey (https://www.mindat.org/user-461.html). Collection #2272CL. 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.