Shattuckite with Malachite on Quartz

Item Description

These specimens are some of the finest examples of Shattuckite from any locality, but now fairly hard to find on the market. This large miniature / small cabinet piece features attractive, velvety/fibrous, medium blue color aggregates associated with green radiating Malachite on massive slightly smoky colored Quartz matrix. A nice representative example of this attractive and colorful material.
From the collection of Chester ("Chet") S. Lemanski Jr. of Browns Mills, New Jersey (https://www.mindat.org/user-461.html). Collection #23201CL. The piece was originally from the collection of Dan Serebrakian. 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.