Fluorite with Baryte (ex Chet Lemanski Collection)

Item Description

This specimen is labeled as coming from Bjelaja Retschka (possibly the White River = Bjelaja Rechnoy), but I can't find any listings for this locality in any database, so if anybody out there can reach out and let us know where this piece could be from, we would appreciate the help. With that said, this small cabinet specimen hosts many sharp, lustrous, gemmy, nearly colorless cubes of Fluorite measuring up to 6 mm, which are associated with thin bladed groups of Baryte on matrix. There appear to be some small oxidized cubes of Pyrite(?) on the surface. From the collection of Chester ("Chet") S. Lemanski Jr. of Browns Mills, New Jersey (https://www.mindat.org/user-461.html). Collection #4895CL. 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.