Willemite

Item Description

An attractive and good quality crystallized Willemite specimen from the famous Berg Aukas Mine in Namibia featuring gemmy, lustrous, silvery to colorless crystal groups on matrix. The crystals are best seen under magnification, and you can see the fine hexagonal form with attractive basal terminations. A classic example of a species that is not often seen in good quality crystallized specimens like this with gemmy crystals on matrix. The crystals show a lovely green fluoresence under UV light. From the collection of Chester ("Chet") S. Lemanski Jr. of Browns Mills, New Jersey (https://www.mindat.org/user-461.html). Collection #2184CL. 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.