Nepheline with Calcite

Item Description

A cool combo specimen from Bancroft, Ontario featuring soft yellow color blocky crystals of Nepheline sitting on pale pinkish Calcite matrix. The Nephelines show a light yellow hue under UV light, and the Calcites fluoresce a rich pink color. From the collection of Chester ("Chet") S. Lemanski Jr. of Browns Mills, New Jersey (https://www.mindat.org/user-461.html). Collection #2809CL. 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.