Adult: Rocks, Minerals, & Gems Summer Reading 2022

1) Rocks and minerals: all-color guide

Author

Arem, Joel E

2) gems and jewelry all color guide

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3) A field guide in color to minerals, rocks and precious stones

Author

Bauer, Jaroslav

4) Gems

Author

Bonewitz, Ra

Series

Smithsonian nature guide

5) rocks and minerals

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6) rock and gem

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7) Rockhounding California: a guide to the state's best rockhounding sites

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Description

A complete guide and source-book brimming with advice on collecting and preparing gems and minerals.

8) Simon and Schuster's Guide to gems and precious stones

Author

Cipriani, Curzio

9) Rocks & fossils: a visual guide

Author

Coenraads, Robert Raymond

10) Hope diamond: the legendary history of a cursed gem

Author

Kurin, Richard

11) Northwest gem trails: a field guide for the gem hunter, the mineral collector and the tourist. Includes Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana and Wyoming

Author

Dake, H. C

12) Treasures in the Smithsonian: the gem collection

Author

Desautels, Paul E

13) national geographic pocket guide to the rocks and

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14) Rocks around the world

Author

Glowacz, Stefan

15) Gemstones

Author

Hall, Cally

Series

Smithsonian handbooks

Description

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Provides a concise description of each gemstone, photographs showing characteristics and distinguishing features, and information on where gemstones are found and their natural properties.

16) The Firefly guide to minerals, rocks & gems

Author

Hochleitner, Rupert

17) Western gem hunters atlas: rock locations from California to the Dakotas and British Columbia to Texas

18) Rockhounding Oregon: a guide to the state's best rockhounding sites

Author

Johnson, Lars W

Series

Falcon guide

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Book, Book - Paperback

Description

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"Fully revised and updated, this book provides detailed directions and GPS coordinates to the best rockhounding sites in Oregon, with valuable tips on what tools to bring and how to conduct your search. Comprehensive lists of minerals or fossils for each site and excellent color photos will help you know what to look for and to identify what you've found. Information on clubs, rock shops, museums, and special attractions are provided"--

19) Manual of mineralogy: (after James D. Dana)

Author

Klein, Cornelis

20) The Star Hyacinths

Author

Schmitz, James H

Description

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The robbery of the Dosey Asteroids Shipping Station in a remote and spottily explored section of space provided the news casting systems of the Federation of the Hub with one of the juiciest crime stories of the season. In a manner not clearly explained, the Dosey Asteroids Company had lost six months' production of gem-quality cut star hyacinths valued at nearly a hundred million credits. It lost also its Chief Lapidary and seventy-eight other company...