Smithsonite (fine rare locality specimen) (ex Chet Lemanski Collection)

Item Description

Mineral specimens from this former Zn-Au-Cu-Bi-Au-Pb-Ag-pyrite mine are very uncommon and very rarely available. This is an odd but very attractive cabinet sized specimen featuring attractive, semi-hemispherical groups of oddly dark brownish colored Smithsonite with a lovely vitreous luster sitting on matrix. One of the best examples of this RARE material that we've ever had to offer on the market. Priced in the inventory at $1,200. From the collection of Chester ("Chet") S. Lemanski Jr. of Browns Mills, New Jersey (https://www.mindat.org/user-461.html). Collection #6501CL. 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.