Brochantite with Linarite (rare locality specimen)

Item Description

A very hard to find specimen from the little-known Manto Cuba Mine in Chile featuring drusy coatings of forest-green Brochantite crystals with lustrous, azure-blue Linarite on Quartz matrix. Best seen under magnification, and we've photographed them with a macro lens to better illustrate their quality. From the collection of Chester ("Chet") S. Lemanski Jr. of Browns Mills, New Jersey (https://www.mindat.org/user-461.html). Collection #20768CL and originally imported by Terry Szenics, who personally collected many minerals in Chile over the years. 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.