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My Awesome Field Guide to Rocks and Minerals

Author : Gary Lewis

Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.

Page : 379 pages

File Size : 10,31 MB

Release : 2019-11-12

Category : Juvenile Nonfiction

ISBN : 1641528737

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Book Description

Become a rock hound with this field guide for kids ages 7 to 10 The world of rocks and minerals is massive, amazing, and full of cool new things to uncover! My Awesome Field Guide to Rocks and Minerals teaches you the skills you need to collect, identify, and catalog your own treasures. Explore 150 different rocks and minerals, and get step-by-step guidelines for testing and identifying the ones you encounter out in the field. There's also plenty of notebook space so you can record data about your finds. So get out there, gather cool looking samples, and discover what they are! My Awesome Field Guide to Rocks and Minerals includes: An intro to earth science—Explore the layers of the earth, how rocks and minerals are formed, the periodic table, and more essential information for young scientists. Handy fact sheets—Learn more about all kinds of unique rocks and minerals with fact sheets that are conveniently organized to help with identification. A field notebook—Record all your rock-hunting sample data on pages that include cut-out numbers for cataloging. Identify and catalog rocks and minerals with this fascinating field guide that has everything you need to get started.



A Guide to Finding Gemstones, Gold, Minerals & Rocks

Author : W. Dan Hausel

Publisher : Createspace Independent Pub

Page : 370 pages

File Size : 35,32 MB

Release : 2014-09-25

Category : Nature

ISBN : 9781502513885

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Book Description

Follow in the footsteps of successful gem and gold hunters and search the hills for rough diamonds, colored gemstones, lapidary minerals, precious metals and interesting minerals and rocks. Written for the geoscientist, prospector and rockhound; the first part of the book focuses on physical characteristics of gems and minerals. This is supplemented with the second part of the book that describes dozens upon dozens of colored gem, diamond, gold, mineral and rock localities using the Public Land Survey System and GPS coordinates so the reader can visit these sites on a home computer with aerial and satellite imagery to gain an understanding of what to look for in the field. With these same coordinates, the reader can visit some occurrences, deposits and areas suggested for prospecting to further their gem hunter prospecting education and potentially lead to new discoveries. Now you can learn what to look for when searching for Mother Nature's treasure.



Simon & Schuster's Guide to Gems and Precious Stones

Author : Kennie Lyman

Publisher : Touchstone

Page : 388 pages

File Size : 17,35 MB

Release : 1986-03-13

Category : Nature

ISBN : 9780671604301

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Book Description

Simon & Schuster's Guide to Gems and Precious Stones provides both the connoisseur and the casual collector with a compact, easy-to-use volume describing more than 100 rare varieties of minerals whose beauty and mystery have possessed our imaginations from time immemorial. More than 450 brilliant photographs accompany profiles of each gem, covering such aspects as appearance, physical properties -- density, hardness, refraction -- occurrence, and how to judge quality and value. Additional sections describe the process of cutting gemstones and the techniques professional gemologists use to evaluate a stone's weight and optical properties. Detailed and comprehensive, this book is essential for anyone interested in the study of gems and precious stones.



Handbook of Rocks, Minerals, and Gemstones

Author : Walter Schumann

Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Page : 390 pages

File Size : 40,18 MB

Release : 1993

Category : Nature

ISBN : 9780395511374

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Book Description

Contains descriptions and photographs of approximately six hundred minerals, rocks, and meteorites, providing information about the history, origin, structure, composition, properties, classification, and location of each specimen.



The Complete Guide to Rocks & Minerals

Author : John Farndon

Publisher :

Page : 260 pages

File Size : 11,60 MB

Release : 2006

Category : Fossils

ISBN : 9780681185814

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Book Description

Discusses the physical properties of various rocks and minerals and gives instructions for collecting and identifying specimens.



Gold

Author : W. Dan Hausel

Publisher : Createspace Independent Pub

Page : 366 pages

File Size : 49,1 MB

Release : 2011-08-12

Category : Science

ISBN : 9781463692629

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Book Description

Few other geologists in history have been as successful at finding gold and other mineral deposits as the authors. The senior author discovered hundreds of gold anomalies and was on the discovery team of one of the largest gold deposits in North America in the Kuskokwim Mountains of Alaska and made the initial discovery of an entire gold district in the Rattlesnake Hills of Wyoming, which is being touted as another Cripple Creek. Although the book focuses on Wyoming; gold is described in other western States in this first volume of two on gold in the West. The authors provide the reader with information on where to find gold, how to find gold and give four decades of combined experience to help the reader understand what to look for and how to read the geology and rock outcrops.



Rockhounding Alaska

Author : Montana Hodges

Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield

Page : 257 pages

File Size : 41,73 MB

Release : 2019-05-01

Category : Nature

ISBN : 1493034014

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Book Description

A complete guide to finding, collecting, and preparing the state’s gems and minerals Rockhounding Alaska is a must-have book for collecting rocks, minerals, and fossils in the Last Frontier. This guidebook features an overview of the state’s geologic history as well as a site-by-site guide to seventy-five collecting locations that stretch from Kodiak Island to the Arctic Circle, with treasures ranging from ancient fossilized sea creatures to precious gems and gold nuggets. A complete and accurate guidebook to the state’s vast riches, Rockhounding Alaska is the ideal resource for rockhounds of all ages and experience levels. Look inside to find: • Maps and detailed site descriptions with directions and GPS coordinates • Suggested tools and techniques • Land-use regulations and legal restrictions • Contact information for land managers • Additional information on rock shops, attractions, and local history