Copper

Item Description

A showy almost arborescent group of Native Copper from Bisbee. The Copper has grown into a somewhat organic looking shape, resembling some kind plant life or coral. If you look closely, you can see crystalline features on the both side of the piece, so it's not just a massive "chunk" of Copper. Minor matrix can be seen at the base of the piece. Certainly an eye-catching example of this classic material, from one of the most well-known copper mineral producing localities in the United States. From the collection of Chester ("Chet") S. Lemanski Jr. of Browns Mills, New Jersey (https://www.mindat.org/user-461.html). Collection #10756CL. 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.