Lollingite (ex Chet Lemanski Collection)

Item Description

Beautiful rich silvery metallic "veins" containing some micro partial crystals of Lollingite can be seen on multiple sides the specimen mixed with dark green Serpentine and black host rock matrix. This is rare material, and virtually impossible to find on the market these days. A great reference specimen to add to a sulfide suite. From the collection of Chester ("Chet") S. Lemanski Jr. of Browns Mills, New Jersey (https://www.mindat.org/user-461.html). Collection #6568CL. 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.