Calcite with Chalcopyrite (rare locality specimen) (ex Chet Lemanski Collection)

Item Description

A gorgeous old-time specimen from the historic locality at Ehrenfriedersdorf. You almost never see good crystallized Calcites from this locality, especially like this. Here we have a wonderful small cabinet display specimen loaded with incredibly well-formed, eye-catching, highly compressed rhombic crystals of Calcite measuring up to 1.6 cm across which are intergrown to form almost "flower"-like groups which are associated with Chalcopyrite on reddish colored matrix. The Calcites look beautiful up close, and I can't stress enough how attractive this piece is in person. If you collect Calcites, old European or German classics or if you just appreciate excellent crystal morphology, be sure to pick up this piece, as you may never see another like it again. From the collection of Chester ("Chet") S. Lemanski Jr. of Browns Mills, New Jersey (https://www.mindat.org/user-461.html). Collection #19131CL, formerly from the collection of Herb Obodda according to Chet's collection catalogue. 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.