Millerite with Nickeline, Skutterudite, etc. (ex Chet Lemanski Collection)

Item Description

A cool old-time specimen from the coal mining district of Kladno featuring a piece of metallic ore that hosts tiny vugs with micro crystals of Millerite, Nickeline, Skutterudite, Cobaltite, Polybasite, Stibnite, Dolomite, and Quartz (according to Lemanski's collection catalogue). Obviously this piece is best seen under magnification, and we've done our best to illustrate what is present by photographing the crystals with a Canon MP-E 65 mm macro lens. From the collection of Chester ("Chet") S. Lemanski Jr. of Browns Mills, New Jersey (https://www.mindat.org/user-461.html). Collection #16883CL. 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.