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

Item Description

Here we have a rarely seen piece from the Kuju Sulfur Mine, featuring pastel yellow, stalactitic native sulfur free of matrix. The piece looks like it formed in a fumarole, but it truly looks like the yellow window and door insulating foam sealant that you'll find in the hardware store. A very different kind of sulfur, and to the best of my knowledge, the first of its kind that we've offered in the auctions. From the collection of Chester ("Chet") S. Lemanski Jr. of Browns Mills, New Jersey (https://www.mindat.org/user-461.html). Collection #18188CL. Chet's collection catalogue states that this piece was "A former Gene Cianciulli collection specimen gifted to Dr. Eugene E. Sensel and from his collection (#M620)". 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.