Galena on Rhodochrosite (ex Chet Lemanski Collection)

Item Description

A fine quality Galena from the famous Stari Trg Mine at Trepča (in the former Yugoslavia) featuring highly lustrous, metallic, silvery colored cuboctahedral crystals of Galena measuring up to 8 mm across sitting on spherical matrix of drusy brownish-pink colored Rhodochrosite. The piece is in great condition all around, with only minor imperfections that honestly can't be seen without magnification. A beautiful example from older finds in the 1990s. From the collection of Chester ("Chet") S. Lemanski Jr. of Browns Mills, New Jersey (https://www.mindat.org/user-461.html). Collection #16211CL. 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.