Fluorite with Calcite and Galena (ex Chet Lemanski Collection)

Item Description

An attractive near full cabinet sized specimen listed as coming from "Cumberland" (Cumbria), England. There is a good coverage of sharp, glassy, gemmy, cubic, golden-yellow Fluorite crystals measuring up to 1.7 cm with scattered Calcite crystals on matrix containing Galena. The back side is coated by white, drusy Calcite crystals. Very little damage and the piece honestly looks better in person, the quality just doesn't come through in the photos/video. From the collection of Chester ("Chet") S. Lemanski Jr. of Browns Mills, New Jersey (https://www.mindat.org/user-461.html). Collection #19466CL. 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.