Native Lead (old classic material) (ex Chet Lemanski Collection)

Item Description

Some of the most well-known specimens of Native Lead are those from the famous Långban Mine in Sweden. This locality is one of the most prolific species producing mines in the world, right up there with places like Tsumeb, Mont-Saint-Hilaire and Franklin, New Jersey. This piece features attractive patches of micro crystallized "lead grey" colored Native Lead richly coating three sides of the underlying matrix. Best viewed with magnification, but still a worthwhile classic example of this well-known material. From the collection of Chester ("Chet") S. Lemanski Jr. of Browns Mills, New Jersey (https://www.mindat.org/user-461.html). Collection #3732CL. 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.