Wulfenite (rare locality)

Item Description

A notably hard to find Wulfenite specimen from Leshan in Sichuan, China. I think this is the very first piece of this material that we've had to offer in the auctions. The specimens were found in 2004, and there were very few available. While they are not the largest Wulfenite crystals you'll ever see, they are quite attractive under magnification, as the piece is filled with sharp, lustrous, bright golden-yellow, bipyramidal crystals measuring to about 1 mm, sitting atop thin white bladed Baryte crystals on oxidized matrix. There are crystals on all sides of the piece, but the main focus is the rich concentration of crystals on the display side. From the collection of Chester ("Chet") S. Lemanski Jr. of Browns Mills, New Jersey (https://www.mindat.org/user-461.html). Collection #20584CL. 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.