Magnetite (ex Chet Lemanski Collection)

Item Description

Please note that this specimen is labeled as coming from the Kola Peninsula, but I can't find a specific listing for this material, so if anybody out there can let us know a more detailed locale, we would greatly appreciate it. This small cabinet specimen features several, sharp, well-formed octahedral crystals of Magnetite measuring up to 1.2 cm across with a dark brown-bronze color, frozen into a blue-grey colored schist matrix. The two main Magnetites are in good shape, but some of the smaller crystals are contacted. The faces of the main Magnetites are rather smooth and not at all "etched" or irregular like so many Magnetites can be. From the collection of Chester ("Chet") S. Lemanski Jr. of Browns Mills, New Jersey (https://www.mindat.org/user-461.html). Collection #1617CL. 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.