Chrysocolla (ex Chet Lemanski Collection)

Item Description

A beautiful display specimen from the Inca de Oro Mining District in Chile featuring radial aggregates of strong blue Chrysocolla measuring up to 1.1 cm across, coating by drusy, sugary Quartz sitting on black Tenorite an partially oxidized matrix. According to Chet's collection catalogue, the piece was obtained directly from Terry Szenics - the namesake for Szenicsite - at the Tucson Show in 1999. Szenics personally imported the piece from Chile. If you collect locality specimens, this is exactly the kind of specimen to add to your collection, because one rarely has the opportunity to pick up a piece of this material, especially now since nothing has come from the locality in years. From the collection of Chester ("Chet") S. Lemanski Jr. of Browns Mills, New Jersey (https://www.mindat.org/user-461.html). Collection #10545CL. 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.