Fluorite on Baryte

Item Description

A wonderful matrix specimen of the famed Fluorites from Madoc featuring several very gemmy, pale green colored cuboctahedral crystals measuring up to 2.0 cm, sitting on pale beige colored Baryte. Most of the Fluorites we've had to offer from Madoc or single crystals, or groups off matrix, so to find a showy matrix piece like this is uncommon. Good quality overall, no major damage, only a little roughness.
From the collection of Chester ("Chet") S. Lemanski Jr. of Browns Mills, New Jersey (https://www.mindat.org/user-461.html). Collection #19379CL. The piece was originally from the collection of Dan Serebrakian. 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.