Fluorite (rare locality)

Item Description

A rarely seen Fluorite specimen from the Chilas area in the high mountains of Pakistan featuring a sharp, well-formed, slightly translucent, soft seafoam-green colored cubic crystal of Fluorite measuring 3.0 cm on edge along with many smaller Fluorite cubes on a layer of underlying matrix. You don't see a lot of Fluorites from granite pegmatite localities around the world, but there are several in Pakistan where they have been found over the years. This piece is specifically is listed as coming from Chilas, and came originally from Dudley Blauwet, who personally acquired it in Pakistan, so I firmly believe the locality designation is correct. From the collection of Chester ("Chet") S. Lemanski Jr. of Browns Mills, New Jersey (https://www.mindat.org/user-461.html). Collection #19462L. 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.