Molybdenite (rare locality specimen) (ex Chet Lemanski Collection)

Item Description

A hard to find specimen from the Jardinera No. 1 Mine (the type locality for Szenicsite) featuring bright silvery colored, foliated, metallic crystals of Molybdenite measuring up to 2.3 cm across associated with yellow-green Cuprian Powellite and darker green Malachite. According to Chet's collection catalogue, the piece was obtained directly from Terry Szenics - the namesake for Szenicsite - at the Franklin Mineral Show in New Jersey in September 2004. If you collect locality specimens, this is exactly the kind of specimen to add to your collection, because one rarely has the opportunity to pick up a piece of this material, especially now since nothing is has come from the locality in years. From the collection of Chester ("Chet") S. Lemanski Jr. of Browns Mills, New Jersey (https://www.mindat.org/user-461.html). Collection #20773CL. 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.