Linarite (RARE locality specimen)

Item Description

A rarely seen specimen of Linarite from the lesser-known Los Azules Mine in Chile. I've actually never had a piece of this material to offer in the auctions. This miniature specimen hosts a rich coating of lustrous, flat-lying, azure-blue Linarite crystals with sprays of acicular Malachite, all on drusy Quartz-coated matrix. A wonderful locality specimen for any fan of secondary copper minerals or specimens from Chile/South America. From the collection of Chester ("Chet") S. Lemanski Jr. of Browns Mills, New Jersey (https://www.mindat.org/user-461.html). Collection #20811CL, and originally imported by Terry Szenics, who personally collected many minerals in Chile over the years. 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.