Tyuyamunite (rare) (ex Chet Lemanski Collection)

Item Description

This is a very hard to find cabinet display specimen from the Ridenaur Mine featuring a beautiful association of finely crystallized, bright yellow Tyuyamunite with finely crystallized, green Tangeite coating matrix surfaces. Fun to view up close, and we've photographed the piece with a canon MP-E 65 mm macro lens to better illustrate the quality. From the collection of Chester ("Chet") S. Lemanski Jr. of Browns Mills, New Jersey (https://www.mindat.org/user-461.html). Collection #21899CL. 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.