Description

Mineral collecting by amateur rockhounds has never been more popular. Old quarries, road cuts, and exposed landscapes are being examined by new generations of minerals enthusiasts. Each needs a comprehensive guidebook with clear photographs and accurate data. This is it.

In a thick but handy format, more than 700 different minerals and rocks are grouped by color (for ease of location in the book) blue, red, yellow, brown, green, white and black crystals; brown and gray sedimentary rocks; and meteorites for anyone lucky enough to find one.

Each has a picture four to a page opposite detailed but clear data:

Chemical formula

Hardness

Color

Density

Lustre

Cleavage

Fracture

Tenacity

Crystal form

Similar minerals and where they are likely to occur. And many will have a diagram of its crystal form up to four, for fluorite, for example.

The Minerals Encyclopedia is unusual for the number of minerals it covers: more than 700 in 448 pages, with a useful glossary, an introduction to mineral collecting, printed front and back flaps that offer quick reference in the field, and a measuring rule on the back cover. This is a superior reference for rockhounds, geology students and outdoors people with an interest in whats under their feet.

Author: Rupert Hochleitner
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Firefly Books
Published: 09/15/2022
Pages: 448
Weight: 1.6lbs
Size: 7.75h x 5.30w x 0.98d
ISBN: 9780228103622
Language: English