Volborthite (RARE locality specimen) (ex Chet Lemanski Collection)

Item Description

An incredibly hard to find specimen of the rare copper vanadate species, Volborthite from Copley in the North Flinders Ranges of South Australia. To the best of my knowledge, this is the first piece of this material that we've had to offer in the auctions. This small cabinet specimen features yellow to yellow-green colored micro Volborthite associated with soft blue-green colored Malachite on host rock matrix. You just don't see these on the market, you'd be hard-pressed to get your hands on another one of these anytime soon, so if you collect rarities or odd locality specimens, don't pass this one up. From the collection of Chester ("Chet") S. Lemanski Jr. of Browns Mills, New Jersey (https://www.mindat.org/user-461.html). Collection #1706CL. 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.