Silver (ex Chet Lemanski Collection)

Item Description

This is a classic specimen from Cobalt featuring a sawn face that reveals the rich almost arborescent Native Silver that fills the surrounding white Calcite matrix. A wonderful representative specimen from one of the great North American Silver districts. Good Silver specimens from Cobalt are not that common on the market, and they are some of the most desirable examples of the species from anywhere. From the collection of Chester ("Chet") S. Lemanski Jr. of Browns Mills, New Jersey (https://www.mindat.org/user-461.html). Collection #0045CL, originally from Dick Hauck. 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.