Tyrolite (rare) (ex Chet Lemanski Collection)

Item Description

Tyrolite is a rare hydrated calcium copper hydroxyl arsenate carbonate, and this piece is from the famous locality at Farbište, Slovakia. The display face is covered with sprays of lustrous, beautiful blue green Tyrolite, and the back of the piece even features some crystals at well. A good quality specimen of this hard to find material from the Banská Bystrica District. From the collection of Chester ("Chet") S. Lemanski Jr. of Browns Mills, New Jersey (https://www.mindat.org/user-461.html). Collection #1529CL. 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.