Linarite (rare from Broken Hill)

Item Description

The great locality at Broken Hill in New South Wales, Australia is almost certainly one of the 10 top mineral producing places in history. A wide number of species, often in fine crystallized examples have been found over the years, including many excellent secondary ore species. Here we have a rarely seen Linarite featuring small, vivid blue crystalline patches scattered over the underlying matrix. We've photographed the piece with a Canon MP-E 65 mm macro lens to better illustrate the quality. If you're a fan of Broken Hill specimens, this is a cool piece check off a box to add to your collection, as I'm sure most suites of Broken Hill don't have a small cabinet sized Linarite specimen in them. From the collection of Chester ("Chet") S. Lemanski Jr. of Browns Mills, New Jersey (https://www.mindat.org/user-461.html). Collection #14828CL. The piece was originally from the collection of Dan Serebrakian. 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.