Fluorite (ex Chet Lemanski Collection)

Item Description

A lovely small cabinet sized specimen featuring many sharp, well-formed, strong yellow colored, gemmy cubes of Fluorite measuring up to 2.0 cm on edge on matrix. Most of the crystals are in excellent shape, though there are some small imperfections here and there. There are some unusual black "spots" that can be seen on the piece, and I don't know if these are hydrocarbon inclusions, or possibly some kind of radiation "burns" like you see in Quartz crystals. From the collection of Chester ("Chet") S. Lemanski Jr. of Browns Mills, New Jersey (https://www.mindat.org/user-461.html). Collection #0648CL. 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.