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Lemanskiite - Sold
- Abundancia mine
- El Guanaco
- Antofagasta Region
- Chile
- 4.6 by 2.9 by 2.9 cm – Miniature specimen (fits into a 5 cm cube)
Lemanskiite is a sodium calcium copper arsenate mineral. The mineral name honor "Chet" Lemanski, army investigator and mineral collector. Ondruš et al. (2006). Recently, Zubkova et al. (2018) refined the crystal structure of lemanskiite, and revising its ideal formula.
The specimen comes the type locality for lemanskiite. Lemanskiite forms bright blue platy microcrystals on a fracture surface of quartz matrix. A good macroscopic display piece, quite rich, but not especially well deleoped for micro-photography.