Book Description
An old time prospector's adventures in the early 1900s told with verve and humor with useful hints on how to locate minerals and gems from San Diego to Yuma, Arizona.
Author : Fred Rynerson
Publisher : Naturegraph Pub
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 21,64 MB
Release : 2003-06-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780911010602
An old time prospector's adventures in the early 1900s told with verve and humor with useful hints on how to locate minerals and gems from San Diego to Yuma, Arizona.
Author : Healing Dynamics Incorporated
Publisher : Healing Dynamics
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 44,14 MB
Release : 2009-06
Category :
ISBN : 9780976793205
Mining for Diamonds is a metaphor for going within to explore your inner realms; to find and use internal tools to heal from the pain of your childhood; and to discover and claim your true self. This book takes you within to explore your inner realms.
Author : Gary W. Bowersox
Publisher : GeoVision, Inc.
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 33,49 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780974732312
This is the story of one man's endeavor to discover precious gems and to lead a life filled with loyal friends and extraordinary adventures. He finds it all in the Hindu Kush region of Afghanistan but not without risking his life. In this book Gary W. Bowersox spins his tales of thirty two years of discovery both introspective and worldwide. Along the way he encounters danger and intrigue as he builds lasting friendships. He has traded gems and stories with Afghan miners, ethnic peoples, freedom fighters, government officials, scientist, and on a few occasions, international spies.
Author : Janine Farrell-Robert
Publisher : Red Wheel Weiser
Page : 929 pages
File Size : 29,36 MB
Release : 2007-04-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1609258800
Rare, romantic, and forever: The diamond industry depends on these myths to reap billions of dollars of profit. This sensational investigation explodes such fallacies and reveals how multimillion-dollar advertising campaigns create the impression of rarity and romance. It reveals a very secret and unromantic world, one that is dominated and controlled by a handful of mighty corporations. With Leonardo DiCaprio’s movie The Blood Diamond making more people than ever aware of the seamy side of the diamond trade, Janine Roberts’ explosive exposé, taking us through seven decades of intrigue and manipulation, is the right book at the right time.
Author : Gary W. Bowersox
Publisher : GeoVision, Inc.
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 35,41 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780945005193
A richly illustrated volume directed to gemologists and serious gem collectors.
Author : Lance Grande
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 48,95 MB
Release : 2009-11-15
Category : Design
ISBN : 0226305112
"Gems and Gemstones" features nearly 300 color images of cut gems, precious and semiprecious stones, gem-quality mineral specimens, and fine jewelry to be unveiled in the new Grainger Hall of Gems at the Field Museum in Chicago.
Author : W. Dan Hausel
Publisher : Createspace Independent Pub
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 37,11 MB
Release : 2014-09-25
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781502513885
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.
Author : George Richard Fansett
Publisher :
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 15,82 MB
Release : 1918
Category : Mines and mineral resources
ISBN :
Author : Victoria Finlay
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 10,34 MB
Release : 2006-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0345493354
Throughout history, precious stones have inspired passions and poetry, quests and curses, sacred writings and unsacred actions. In this scintillating book, journalist Victoria Finlay embarks on her own globe-circling search for the real stories behind some of the gems we prize most. Blending adventure travel, geology, exciting new research, and her own irresistible charm, Finlay has fashioned a treasure hunt for some of the most valuable, glamorous, and mysterious substances on earth. With the same intense curiosity and narrative flair she displayed in her widely-praised book Color, Finlay journeys from the underground opal churches of outback Australia to the once pearl-rich rivers of Scotland; from the peridot mines on an Apache reservation in Arizona to the remote ruby mines in the mountains of northern Burma. She risks confronting scorpions to crawl through Cleopatra’s long-deserted emerald mines, tries her hand at gem cutting in the dusty Sri Lankan city where Marco Polo bartered for sapphires, and investigates a rumor that fifty years ago most of the world’s amber was mined by prisoners in a Soviet gulag. Jewels is a unique and often exhilarating voyage through history, across cultures, deep into the earth’s mantle, and up to the glittering heights of fame, power, and wealth. From the fabled curse of the Hope Diamond, to the disturbing truths about how pearls are cultured, to the peasants who were once executed for carrying amber to the centuries-old quest by magicians and scientists to make a perfect diamond, Jewels tells dazzling stories with a wonderment and brilliance truly worthy of its subjects.
Author : Peter Bancroft
Publisher :
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 32,7 MB
Release : 1984-01-01
Category : Mineralogy.
ISBN : 9780961346119
100 field trips to many of the world's exotic gem and crystal mines.