Goethite (rare locality specimen)

Item Description

A rarely seen specimen of dark reddish-brown columnar Goethite with parallel, circular structures aggregated into a mass, labeled as coming from Ironwood, Michigan (possibly the Newport Mine?). I've seen radiating, spherical Goethite specimens from this area, but this is the first columnar example. It has an elegance / beauty that you rarely seen in Goethite, and it's quite attractive in person I think. It should be noted that this mineral was named after the famous German philosopher Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and the correct pronunciation of the species is GER-tite (with a hard "g" like gold).
From the collection of Chester ("Chet") S. Lemanski Jr. of Browns Mills, New Jersey (https://www.mindat.org/user-461.html). Collection #12862CL, and the catalogue entry for the piece states that it was exported from China and imported into the United States by The Rocksmiths, and was purchased by Chet on February 8, 2001 (TGMS Show). 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.