Wulfenite (ex Chet Lemanski Collection)

Item Description

This is a lovely thumbnail Wulfenite specimen from this historic locality. It features sharp, lustrous, rich orange / butterscotch color, thick tabular crystals of Wulfenite measuring up to 1.1 cm on oxidized. The front is nearly damage free, and despite some minor roughness, is in great condition. Despite the fairly thick nature of the Wulfenite crystals, they are still somewhat translucent in areas when backlit, and when you look at the crystals on their sides, you can see they have a "banded" or almost "sandwich" like layered form. From the collection of Chester ("Chet") S. Lemanski Jr. of Browns Mills, New Jersey (https://www.mindat.org/user-461.html). Collection #20479CL. 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.