Pyrite (classic material) (ex Chet Lemanski Collection)

Item Description

Here we have a classic and hard to find Pyrite specimen from Marlborough, Massachusetts (possibly from the Interstate 290/Interstate 495 interchange road cuts) featuring a prominent, cube-pyritohedral crystal of soft golden metallic Pyrite measuring 1.5 cm associated with off-white colored Albite on matrix. The piece displays well as you can see from the photos, and the Pyrite crystal is damage free. A must have for any fan of sulfides, worldwide Pyrite or minerals from New England. From the collection of Chester ("Chet") S. Lemanski Jr. of Browns Mills, New Jersey (https://www.mindat.org/user-461.html). Collection #18567CL. 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.