Aurichalcite (rare locality specimen)

Item Description

This specimen is a notably hard to find piece of Aurichalcite from the Chief Mine in the Empire Mountains of Arizona. To the best of my knowledge, we've never had a piece of this material to offer in the auctions prior to this one. The piece is best seen with a loupe, but up close you can see beautiful turquoise colored Aurichalcite with associated silvery colored crystals of Hemimorphite. A cool association specimen and a must-have if you collect Arizona localities or secondary ore minerals. From the collection of Chester ("Chet") S. Lemanski Jr. of Browns Mills, New Jersey (https://www.mindat.org/user-461.html). Collection #21907CL. 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.