Molybdenite (RARE locality specimen)

Item Description

This is a ridiculously hard to find specimen of Molybdenite from the Kaveltorp Mines in Sweden. It is the only Molybdenite specimen we've ever seen from this historic locality that dates back to the 1850s, and we couldn't find another crumb of it anywhere online for comparison. The piece is a fantastic cabinet sized display specimen hosts slightly foliated/rounded hexagonal crystals of bright silvery metallic Molybdenite measuring up to 2.5 cm across, sitting on Quartz with minor golden/brassy iridescent Chalcopyrite. There are some defined crystals faces on the Molybdenites, so they're not just amorphous "blebs". If you collect sulfides, minerals of Sweden or rare locality specimens, don't miss out on this one, you're not likely to see another anytime soon on the market.
From the collection of Chester ("Chet") S. Lemanski Jr. of Browns Mills, New Jersey (https://www.mindat.org/user-461.html). Collection #0360CL. Chet's collection catalogue states that he acquired this piece in January of 1987 from Jim's Gems, Wayne, NJ. 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.