A magnificent example of this rare and highly sought after species from Broken Hill!!! This specimen hosts numerous sharp, glassy, gemmy, brightly colored
crystals of stolzite on a smartly contrasting black matrix!!! This specimen is way better than the pics show!!! Simply a fantastic representation of the species!!!
This specimen retains its old L.L. Hubbard Collection label and A.E. Seaman catalogue notation (a brief bio is provided below)!!!
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Courtesy of The Mineralogical Record:
Arthur E. Seaman
(1858-1937)
"Arthur Edmund Seaman was born in Casnovia, near Grand Rapids, Michigan on December 29,
1858, the son of Sarah Moore and George Washington Seaman, a farmer. He worked on his
father's farm until around 1880, then moved to the Upper Peninsula where he worked as a
timberman for a mining company. Through his work in the mines he developed a knowledge of
rocks and minerals, and was hired by the Michigan Geological Survey in 1885.
In 1892, the Geological Survey and the Michigan Mining School were separated and
Seaman continued working under Professor Wadsworth at the Michigan Mining School. Seaman
taught as an assistant from 1889 to 1893 and was promoted to instructor even before he
had received his B.S. degree in 1895, having fulfilling the degree requirements in his
spare time.
In 1897 the name of the school was changed to the Michigan College of Mines. In 1899,
Seaman, by then a full professor, was named head of the Department of Geology and
Mineralogy. He skillfully organized the mineralogy and geology department's mineral
collection with the assistance of Dr. L.L. Hubbard and Dr. G.A. Koenig. In 1928, Professor
Seaman was officially named curator of the mineral museum when he retired from active
teaching. He died in June of 1937, at which time his extensive personal mineral collection
was donated to the museum. The mineral seamanite was named in his honor in 1930, and the
mineral museum itself is now known as the A.E. Seaman Mineralogical Museum.
References:
LININGER, J.L. (2001) The life and times of museum builder A.E. Seaman. Matrix, 9 (4), 143-159.
WILSON, W.E., and DYL, S.J. II (1992) The Seaman Mineral Museum, Michigan Technological University, Houghton. Mineralogical Record, 23 (2), 73-76.
U.S. Federal census, 1850, 1860, 1870, 1880, 1900, 1910, 1920, 1930.
Seaman Mineralogical Museum website."
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