Chalcedony on Siderite (ex Chet Lemanski Collection)

Item Description

A really interesting and rarely seen specimen comprising a matrix of tan colored Siderite which has been overgrown by a layer of translucent, silvery-lavender colored botryoidal Chalcedony. The sculptural and three-dimensional form of the Siderite made for a beautiful canvas upon which the Chalcedony was deposited. Very hard to find on the market, and the actual combination of Chalcedony and Siderite isn't terribly common in the mineral world. Priced at $950 in the inventory. From the collection of Chester ("Chet") S. Lemanski Jr. of Browns Mills, New Jersey (https://www.mindat.org/user-461.html). Collection #22681CL. 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.