Fluorite (multi-color ''phantom'' crystals) (ex Chet Lemanski Collection)

Item Description

Some of the most colorful and highly displayable Fluorite specimens have come from the famous Okorusu Mine. This locality is not only prolific in terms of size and quality of its Fluorites, but it has produced specimens in virtually every color of the rainbow (including black and colorless). This cabinet sized piece is from a discovery about 20 years ago and features a group of very sharp, lustrous, gemmy, cubic crystals measuring up to 2.8 cm on edge which show classic internal "phantoms" with a mix of green and blue hues inside. Most of the crystals are in good condition, but there are a few minor imperfections here and there. It's displays wonderfully as you can see from the photos. Priced in the inventory at $1,500. From the collection of Chester ("Chet") S. Lemanski Jr. of Browns Mills, New Jersey (https://www.mindat.org/user-461.html). Collection #0499CL. 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.