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Collector’s Guide to Silicates: Di- and Ring Silicates Robert J. Lauf. Collector’s Guide to Silicates: Di- and Ring Silicates. Robert J. Lauf. This book explains the structural relationships among di- and ring silicate minerals and the geological conditions that create these beautiful crystals prized by collectors. It covers the chemistry, structure, and taxonomy of the minerals and the origin of their colors. Detailed entries for each mineral showwhat good specimens look like and which minerals are found with them. • 81/2" x 11" (215 x 279 mm) • 581 images • 272 pp. • 978-0-7643-5436-6 • HC • $45.00 / £40.99 / $64.00 CAD Collector’s Guide to Silicates: Orthosilicates Robert J. Lauf. Collector’s Guide to Silicates: Orthosil- icates. Robert J. Lauf. This book explains the structur- al relationships among orthosilicate minerals and the geological conditions that create the beautiful crystals prized by collectors. It covers their chemistry, structure, and taxonomy and the origin of their colors. Detailed entries show what good specimens look like and which minerals are found with them. • 81/2" x 11" (215 x 279 mm) •450color and17b/w•240pp. •978-0-7643-5286- 7 • HC • $45.00 / £40.99 / $64.00 CAD Collectors’ Guide to the Amphibole Group Robert Lauf. Find out how the amphiboles are organized and named, and how to relate obsolete names to currently accepted ones. More than 135 full color crystal images help the reader visualize the important structural features that define amphiboles and control their physical properties. Also locality information and identification photos. • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279 mm) • 144 color photos • 96 pp. • 978-0-7643-4870-9 • PB • $19.99 / £18.99 / $28.99 CAD Collector’s Guide to the Axinite Group Robert J. Lauf. More than 90 color photos provide examples of good specimens of axinite minerals. This concise monograph provides a timely review, including an explanation of the chemistry and taxonomy of the group and an illustration of the crystal structure and the morphologies of real crystals. Detailed entries for each mineral provide information on notable localities and full color photos wherever possible. • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279mm) • 97 color photos • 96 pp. • 978-0-7643-3216- 6 • PB • $19.99 / £18.99 / $28.99 CAD Collector’s Guide to the Balmat Mining District: St Lawrence County, New York Steven C. Cham- berlain, Marian V. Lupulescu, David G. Bailey, William F. deLorraine, George W. Robinson. This famous min- ing district in southern St. Lawrence County, New York, produced talc and zinc ore for more than a century. Most collectors are familiar with the very desirable specimens produced. This book is the first comprehen- sive description of the history, geology, and mineralo- gy of this important mining district. • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279 mm) • 249 color and b/w images • 128 pp. • 978-0-7643-5466-3 • HC • $34.99 / £31.99 / $56.99 CAD Collector’s Guide to the Beryl Group Robert J. Lauf. This book explains how beryl is formed and the unique conditions that create fine aquamarines and emeralds. It covers the chemistry, structure, and tax- onomy of the minerals of the beryl group. Detailed entries for each mineral provide locality information and full color photos show what good specimens look like and which minerals are found with them. • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279mm) • 103 color & 2 b/w photos • 96 pp. •978-0-7643-3878-6•PB•$19.99 / £18.99 / $28.99CAD Collector’s Guide to the Black Tourmaline of Pierrepont, New York Steven C. Chamberlain, George W. Robinson, Michael R. Walter, Jeffrey R. Chiarenzelli, Marian V. Lupulescu, David G. Bailey. Pierrepont has produced spectacular black tourmaline specimens for more than 150 years. The six authors are particularly qualified to resolve questions of origin and mineral identification for the tourmaline and its many accessory minerals. • 81/2" x 11" (215 x 279mm) • 229 color &b/w images • 128 pp. • 978-0-7643-5199-0 • PB • $24.99 / £22.99 / $35.99 CAD Collector’s Guide to the Epidote Group Robert J. Lauf. More than 90 color photos display epidote group minerals, well known to collectors for their rich colors. The text provides a review of all presently known species, along with detailed entries for each of the eighteen minerals and extensive locality information. This book will be of interest to those interested in de- veloping a better understanding of silicate minerals. • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279 mm) • 92 color photos • 96 pp. • 978-0-7643-3048-3•PB•$19.99 / £18.99 / $28.99CAD Collector’s Guide to the Feldspar Group Robert J. Lauf. How feldspar minerals are formed and the conditions that create the striking colors of amazonite, sunstone, and labradorite. Illustrated with more than 100 color photos and covers the chemistry, structure, and taxonomy of the minerals of the feldspar group. Detailed entries provide locality information. The pho- tos show what good specimens look like and which minerals are found with them. • 81/2" x 11" (215 x 279 mm) • 107 color & 2 b/w photos • 96 pp. • 978-0-7643- 4329-2 • PB • $19.99 / £18.99 / $28.99 CAD Collector’s Guide to the Garnet Group Robert J. Lauf. This book explains how garnet minerals are formed and the unique conditions that create the rarer garnet species. It covers the chemistry, structure, and taxonomy of the minerals of the garnet group. Detailed entries for each mineral provide locality infor- mation and full color photos showwhat good specimens look like and which minerals are found with them. • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279 mm) • 129 color photos • 96 pp. • 978-0-7643-4003-1• PB•$19.99 / £18.99 / $28.99CAD More Paleozoic Fossils Bruce L. Stinchcomb. More than 840 Paleozoic specimens are provided, organized by biologic (taxonomic) position. Discover the sponges, archaeocyathids (reef builders), cnidaria, worms, bra- chiopods, bryozoans, mollusks, arthropods, echinoderms, and chordates that populated the oceans and inhabit- ed the land from 535 to 235 million years ago. This is the period when clear evidence for plants and animals appears in hard rock. • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279 mm) • 848 color photos • 160 pp. • 978-0-7643-4030-7 • PB • $29.99 / £27.99 / $42.99 CAD Paleozoic Fossil Plants Bruce L. Stinchcomb. Pa- leozoic Fossil Plants. Bruce L. Stinchcomb. Color photos reveal the Paleozoic plants that covered the earth from 500 to 260 million years ago. Included in this volume are plant fossils from the Devonian, Carboniferous, and Permian. Marine plants also make their appearance in the world during this period. • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279 mm) •673 color photos •160 pp. •978-0-7643-4327-8• PB • $29.99 / £27.99 / $42.99 CAD Paleozoic Fossils Bruce L. Stinchomb. The rich fossil record of the Paleozoic Era (545 to 300 million years ago) is illustrated with 650 high quality color photos and detailed with a very readable text. The photos show the fossil remains of the earth’s early animals and plants. A great book for fossil hunters of all ilks interested in early remnants of life. • 81/2" x 11" (215x279mm) •659color photos•160pp. •978-0-7643- 2917-3 • PB • $30.00 / £27.99 / $42.95 CAD World’s Oldest Fossils Bruce L. Stinchcomb. Covers the earliest fossil record of life from strata called Pre- cambrian and Cambrian by geologists. Illustrated and discussed are structures formed by very primitive pho- tosynthetic life forms, Cambrian trilobites, problemat- ic fossil-like objects, and fascinating paleontological “puzzles.” Includes collector information, glossary, and value ranges. • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279mm) • 509 color photos • 160 pp. • 978-0-7643-2697-4 • PB • $29.95 / £27.99 / $42.95 CAD Collecting Fluorescent Minerals Revised and Expanded 2nd Edition 2E Stuart Schneider. Col- lecting Fluorescent Minerals. Revised and Expanded 2nd Edition. Stuart Schneider. More than 850 beauti- ful color photos illustrate how fluorescent minerals look under UV and daylight. Minerals such as Arago- nite, Celestine, Feldspar, Microcline, Picropharmacolite, Quartz, Spinel, Smithsonite, and more from the US, Canada, Mexico, Greenland, Italy, Sweden, and other places. • 81/2" x 11" (215 x 279mm) •870photos •192 pp. • 978-0-7643-3619-5 • PB • $29.99 / £27.99 / $42.99 CAD Collector’s Guide to Fluorite Arvid Eric Pasto. More than 140 full color photos present fluorite in a fasci- nating array of colors. The extensive text provides references to fluorite’s habits, associated minerals, availability, and locations where large specimens are found. Learn information for the hobby collector or rock hound, as well as technical information for those who want to understand fluorite in greater depth • 81/2" x 11" (215 x 279 mm) • 143 color photos, 10 illus. • 96 pp. • 978-0-7643-3193-0 • PB • $19.99 / £18.99 / $28.99 CAD Collector’s Guide to Granite Pegmatites Vandall T. King. Granite pegmatite crystals have long been admired by gem and mineral collectors as a source of fine specimens and gem materials. 209 color photos and authoritative text provide a thorough discussion of granite pegmatites. The chapters cover pegmatite forms and distributions, interior structures, crystal, mineral, and gem pockets, and references for further study. • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279mm) • 209 color photos • 96pp.•978-0-7643-3578-5•PB•$19.99/£18.99/$28.99 CAD Collector’s Guide to Quartz and Other Silica Minerals Robert J. Lauf. Learn how silica minerals are formed and the unique conditions that create the rare species. It covers the chemistry, structure, and taxonomy of quartz, opal, and the silica minerals that are stable at high temperatures or pressures. Detailed entries provide locality information and photos show what good specimens look like and which minerals are found with them. • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279 mm) • 136 photos • 96 pp. • 978-0-7643-4161-8 • PB • $19.99 / £18.99 / $28.99 CAD Jewels of the Early Earth: Minerals and Fossils of the Precambrian Bruce L. Stinchcomb. The fossils and minerals associated with the first two billion years of earth’s history. The geology of shield areas and their associated rocks and minerals, along with pegmatite and pegmatite minerals—those attractive minerals and crystals like emerald and aquamarine— are explored. • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279 mm) • 659 color photos • 160 pp. • 978-0-7643-3880-9 • PB • $29.99 / £27.99 / $42.99 CAD Mesozoic Fossils I: Triassic and Jurassic Periods Bruce L. Stinchcomb. More than 400 color photos present the fossilized plant, animal, and avian life from the Mesozoic era. Presented along with dinosaur fossils large and small are collectible Triassic and Jurassic period ammonites, belemnites, crustaceans, insects, Araucarian conifers, cycads, and crinoids. Dinosaurs tracks, “stomach stones,” and coprolites are also shown. • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279mm) • 415 color photos • 160 pp. •978-0-7643-3163-3•PB•$29.99 / £27.99 / $42.99CAD Mesozoic Fossils II: The Cretaceous Period Bruce L. Stinchcomb. More than 500 photos show the fossils of the Cretaceous Period—the last period of the Me- sozoic Era, dating from 120 to 67 million years ago— including ammonites, belemnites and other fossil mollusks, a variety of plants, well-preserved arthropods such as crabs and insects, turtles, crocodiles, and di- nosaurs. • 81/2" x 11" (215 x 279mm) •516 color photos • 176 pp. • 978-0-7643-3259-3 • PB • $29.99 / £27.99 / $42.99 CAD GEMS & MINERALS | 131 FOSSILS • Gems & Minerals