Spessartine (fine color) (ex Chet Lemanski Collection)

Item Description

The Wushan Mine is well-known for its high quality Spessartine Garnet crystals. This attractive thumbnail features fine quality, sharp, very lustrous, strong orange-red color, trapezohedral Spessartine crystals measuring up to 5 mm on matrix. Superb color, gemminess and crystal form. A wonderful and fine quality thumbnail of this now classic material. From the collection of Chester ("Chet") S. Lemanski Jr. of Browns Mills, New Jersey (https://www.mindat.org/user-461.html). Collection #20698CL. 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.