Willemite with Mimetite (ex Chet Lemanski Collection)

Item Description

Willemite is a well known and sought after species from Tsumeb that is found is a wide range of colors and habits. This piece hosts lustrous, beautiful aqua blue colored crystal groups of Willemite measuring up to 3 mm associated with thin hexagonal prisms of yellow Mimetite measuring up to 6 mm along with minor "balls" of green Malachite on matrix. The crystals are beautiful to see under the microscope or with a loupe. A lovely association piece of this classic material. From the collection of Chester ("Chet") S. Lemanski Jr. of Browns Mills, New Jersey (https://www.mindat.org/user-461.html). Collection #2235CL. 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.