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Rockhounding
A wonderful way to spend a day in the great outdoors!
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| Fee Mining and Mineral Adventures in the Eastern U.S., by James & Jeannette Monaco ... 263 pages ... Hit the road on a fee mining adventure! Learn where and how to search for gems, precious stones, gold, treasure, fossils, and more. Pay to Dig sites are located in many places in the eastern half of the United States and provide a fun-filled and enriching opportunity to try your hand at a range of treasure hunting experiences. Although written with the casual enthusiast in mind, everyone from vacationing families to more seasoned collectors will find a treasure trove of interesting locations organized by state, including fee mining sites, museums, caves, as well as geologic and historical points of interest. Diamonds in Arkansas, Gold in Maine, Georgia, N. Carolina, Vermont, shipwreck treasure in Florida, Rubies and Emeralds in Tennessee, Fluorescent Minerals in New Jersey and Kentucky, Fairy Stones in Virginia, Fossils in South Carolina, Caves in 14 states, Tour historic mines in Michigan just to name a few. Includes sites in 31 states.
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GEM TRAILS
Rockhounding Series
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Gem Trails of Arizona by James R. Mitchell. REVISED! 20 NEW locations for collecting over 70 different minerals and numerous types of fossils. Azurite, agate, chalcedony, malachite, turquoise, peridot, jasper, petrified wood, and wulfenite are just some of Arizon's incredible profusion of superb crystals and gem materials that collectors can discover. 266 pages featuring more than 100 locations throughout the state with clear maps and directions, detailed site descriptions, GPS coordinates, mineral locator index and glossary.
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Gem Trails of Northern California, by James R. Mitchell .. In this updated second edition, detailed text and maps lead rockhounds to over 76 locations where 60 varieties of California's mineral and fossi treasures can be collected and weekend prospectors can pan for gold. Full-color specimen photos inspire your collecting efforts and black and white photos help to locate sites as diverse as the minerals themselves, ranging from pine covered mountains to barren deserts and beautiful beaches. 190 pages
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Gem Trails of Southern California, by James R. Mitchell Detailed maps and descriptive text lead the rockhound to over 82 of the best collecting locales for gems, minerals, and fossils. Numerous black and white photos aid in locating the collecting areas and selective color photos help with specimen identification. More than 85 collecting sites. For agate to zoisite, find out where to search and find the best specimens that the area has to offer from San Luis Obispo south to the Mexican border. Ideal for the novice and a MUST for any experienced rockhound's collection. 213 pages
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Gem Trails of Colorado, by James R. Mitchell Colorado is known for its mineral and geologic diversity formed over the eons by violent tectonic and volcanic forces. This updated and expanded second edition features over 90 locations, including 27 new sites, where collectors can explore the mineral, gem, and fossil tresure troves of Colorado in areas as varied as the minerals themselves. These sites offer the opportunity to study or collect over 80 different minerals and numerous types of fossils. Agate and jasper, amazonite crystals, blue barite, feldspar, fluorite, garnet, geodes, opal, topaz, and tourmaline are just some of the specimens available to find. 220 pages
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Midwest Gem, Fossil, and Mineral Trails - the Great Lakes States, by June Culp Zeitner This is an indispensable guide for the rock hobbyist, lapidary and fossil enthusiast, and this book highlights the best of the area in one compact volume. It covers Minnesota, Wisconsin, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and Ohio. The copper country of Michigan, the iron ranges of Minnesota, the fluorite area of Illinois, the limestones of Indiana are unsurpassed. Wisconsin's granite is a favorite and Ohio has produced some of the finest fossils ever found. 125 pages
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This book is out of print. If you see a used one anywhere, buy it
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Gem Trails of Nevada, by James R. Mitchell Completely revised and updated with 28 new sites, this is the collector's guide to over 75 of the best gem, fossil, and mineral collecting areas the Silver State has to offer. Sites are divided into four geographical regions and are presented with directions, rockhounding tips, descriptive text, updated highway and site maps, and numerous black and white photos. Also included is a handy mineral locator index, glossary, and a full color insert of Nevadan specimens. 190 pages
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Gem Trails of New Mexico, by James R. Mitchell New Mexico is a rockhound's paradise with 122,000 square miles, some mountainous and forested, much arid with little vegetation and large amounts of public land available for collecting. Divided into four geographic regions, detailed maps, driving directions, descriptive text, and helpful rockhounding tips, this book will lead collectors to the unbelievable variety of collectibles available. New Mexico's extensive landscape and mineral wealth are highlighted here in color as well as black and white photographs. 237 pages
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Gem Trails of Oregon, by Garret Romaine This is a completely revised edition featuring more than 100 locations throughout the state, including 40 completely new locations. Collectors will have the oportunity to discover over 45 different varieties of Oregon's abundant natural treasures from agates to zeolites and everything in between, such as rare sunstones and Josephinite, gold, and thundereggs (Oregon's state rock). Provided are detailed maps, descriptive text and photos, GPS coordinates, road difficulty ratings, best collecting season, tools required, nearby camping and local attractions. 271 pages
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Gem Trails of Pennsylvania and New Jersey, by Scott Stepanski and Karenne Show. Newly revised and updated. Follow gem trails to beautiful agate, jasper, galena, pyrite, quartz crystals, fossils, and much more! The authors become your personal guides to unearthing the beautiful geologic treasures found throughout the best sites in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. From seaside beaches to overgrown quarries, explore old favorites as well as newly discovered sites that hold a wide variety of specimens for the rockhound to uncover. More than 50 locations in two states. 165 pages
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This book is out of stock, out of print, if you find a used one on amazon, buy it
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Gem Trails of Texas is currently being rewritten and updated. Check back here - I'll be one of the first to have it in stock!
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Gem Trails of Utah, by James R. Mitchell In Utah you'll find many unique collecting opportunities in a landscape as diverse as the gems, minerals, and fossils found here. There is colorful petrified wood, faceting grade labradorite, topaz crystals of a color and clarity that rival those found anywhere, boulders of obsidian, delicate halite crystals, and much, much more. Detailed text and maps lead the gem and fossil hunter to abandoned mine dumps, desert terrain, deep canyons, pristine mountains and beautiful lakes in the search for specimens. A color photo section aids in specimen identification and a mineral locator index helps you plan a successful collecting trip. 228 pages
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Gem Trails of Washington, by Garret Romaine The first comprehensive collecting guide of its kind for the Evergreen State, Gem Trails of Washington covers all four corners of the state, from the misty shores of the Olympic peninsula to dust dry ghost towns and abandoned mines near Metaline Falls. Washington's diverse geology, ranging from fossil-rich Cambrian locales to seams of agate and jasper in recent basalt flows, is explored in great detail. The locales are divided in to four geographical regions with directions, site maps, GPS coordinates, and numerous black and white photos. Features over 75 of the best locales. 199 pages
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The GPS Guide to Western Gem Trails. Use this book in conjunction with Western United States rockhounding books from Washington state to Texas. Contains North latitude, West longitude, section/township/range, 7.5 minute quadrangel sheet and jurisdiction for each site along with a highway map for each state. EXCELLENT rockhound companion.
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| Florida's Geological Treasures, by Iris Tracy Comfort Collecting Crystals, Agates, Geodes, Fossils, Shells, and Artifacts, and Exploring Caves, Rivers, Sinks, Springs, Mines, and Beaches. Florida is a land of geological wonders, from its little known earthquake history to the rich new fossil hunting grounds constantly being revealed by commercial development and quarrying activity. Much more than a fashionable resort or retirement destination, Florida ranks fifth in mineral production among all the United States. Florida's surprising mineral wealth ranges from commercial mines to coral islands; from valuable industrial metals like zirconium and titanium to such collectible treasures as chalcedony, ivory, petrified wood, and stunning crystals.This book will tell you where to collect every type of mineral and fossil in Florida and explain how they got there. 128 pages
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| The Rockhound's Logbook & Journal, by Dan R. Lynch ... Wow, what a great idea this is! Created by a rockhound, this logbook and journal is a perfect way to record your discoveries anywhere you go. Features include: Places to record date, location, GPS coordinates, and notes for more than 100 rocks and minerals. Entries are organized alphabetically for easy retrieval. Additional pages for other unique finds. Handy details about rock hardness, streak, and rarity. Checklist to track your finds. Color photos. 120 pages
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| Rocks and Minerals of California, by Brown, Allan & Stark ... This is a book to take into all parts of California on trips and hikes, making you knowledgeable of the rocks and minerals found, and saving hours of time by describing and picturing just those kinds found in this state. Most geologists will tell you that pictures alone can be very misleading when used to identify rocks and minerals. This is particularly true of color pictures because most rocks and minerals have a bewildering set of colors and only in the metallic minerals is color really important. for this reason it is vital to tie the pictures in with clearly developed keys that show how to use hardness, color, specific gravity, luster, textrue, crystal shapes, and so on systematically to identify what you have found. This is successfully accomplished in the book to increase your ability and understanding as a field collector.
Along with useful charts and maps that help to locate mineral deposits through out the state are 80 pages of Quadrangle Map information. The rocks and minerals each with township, range, and section numbers listed within these pages allow the reader to pinpoint the area on the specific map down to forty acres and less. 200 pages
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Fee Mining and Rockhounding Adventures in the West, by James Martin Monaco & Jeannette Hathaway Monaco .. This updated and expanded edition is a unique guide to a wide variety of fee and free rockhounding and mineral adventures throughout the western states. You can visit 100 collecting locations, 153 museums, caves, points of interest, fairs, and festivals. Digging locations are varied and include fee mines, gold prospecting areas, collecting sites for rocks, minerals, and fossils, and adventure and cave tours: sapphires in Montana, smithsonite in New Mexico, gold in Alaska, fire agate in Arizona, opal in Nevada. Whether you are a casual hobbyist, a serious collector or on a family vacation, this book will be your indispensable guide to new rock hunting and prospecting experiences. 233 pages
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Falcon Guide's
ROCKHOUNDING Series
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| Rockhounding Alaska, by Montana Hodges. A Guide to 75 of the State's Best Rockhounding Sites This book is a must-have for collecting rocks, minerals, and fossils in the Last Frontier. The guidebood 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. Maps and detailed site descriptions with directions and GPS coordinates are included, along with suggested tools and techniques, Land-use regulations and legal restrictions, Contact information for land managers, and additional information on rock shops, attractions, and local history. 222 pages
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| Rockhounding Arizona, by Gerry Blair. A guide to 75 of the state's best rockhounding sites. Search for gold in the Superstition Mountains. Dig for turquoise at the foot of the Hieroglyphic Range. Hunt for jasper in the historic mining district near Bagdad. An outstanding sourcebook for experts and novices alike, Rockhounding Arizona points the way, including popular and commercial areas as well as lesser-known sites on public land. Details include: Maps and site descriptions with directions, suggested tools and techniques, Land-use regulations and legal restrictions, Contact information for land managers. 218 pages
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| Rockhounding Colorado, by William A. and Cora Kappele. 96 of the best rockhounding sites in the state. There are also 15 extra sites that are "just in case" where the authors didn't find anything but that feeling is there that something is waiting ... inside you will find detailed descriptions of each site, information on what tools to bring, advice on what kind of vehicle is needed to get to each site, and lists of BLM, county office, and National Forest contact information. 243 pages
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| Rockhounding Idaho, by Garret Romaine A guide to 99 of the State's best Rockhounding sites, this is a must have book for anyone interested in collecting rocks, minerals, fossils, and gold in the Gem State. Completely up to dat with over 200 GPS coordinates, it covers popular and widely know fee-dig operations as well as four-wheel drive adventures into the desert, and long, winding drives through the mountains. The result is a complete and accurate guide to the state's vast riches. 253 pages
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| Rockhounding Montana, by Montana Hodges and Robert Feldman Search for stunning Montana agate along the Yellowstone River. Hunt for sapphires at the Spokane Bar Sapphire Mine. Help paleontologists excavate dinosaurs in Malta. Rockhounding Montana points the way to the best rockhounding in the state, including popular and commercial areas as well as lesser known sites on public land. This guide is an excellent sourcebook for expers and novices alike. This is a guide to 91 of the best rockhounding sites in Montana. 218 pages
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| Rockhounding Nevada, by William A. Kappele If you agree that being able to find agate, opal, jasper, fossils, fluorescent minerals, obsidian, chalcedony, wonderstone, malachite, petrified wood, limb casts, and much more constitutes a paradise, then you should stop reading right now and head for Nevada. Make sure you take a copy of Rockhounding Nevada with you, to guide you to the 94 best sites in the state. 156 pages
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| Rockhounding New Mexico, by Ruta Vaskys and Martin Freed. More than one third of New Mexico is public land that holds untold quantities of mineralogical treasure. With this book, anyone can learn where to find unusual mineral displays, fossils, jasper, agate, and petrified wood, not to mention more obsidian than one rockhound could possibly collect in a lifetime. An oustanding resource for experts and novices alike, this book points the way to 140 of the states best sites, including popular and commercial areas as well as less-known sites on public land. 257 pages
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Rockhounding Utah by William Kappele. This book provides detailed descriptions to 86 sites. Each description includes consise information on the material to be found there, the tools to bring, the best season to visit, the vehicle to drive, or when a remote find suggests it's time to lace up the hiking boots. Readers can glean new insights into the obsidian of the Black Rock sites, jasper at Hell's Backbone, petrified wood at Bullfrog Turnoff, and fossils of sea lilies along the Wasatch Range. 180 pages
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| Rockhounding Wyoming, by Kenneth Lee Graham. This is an introduction to a fascinating treasure hunt for those seeking jade, agate, bloodstone, fossils, petrified wood, fluorite, and other precious stones. The 75 sites described in this guide will take you across the red desert to the high mountain majesty of the Big Horns and Wind Rivers as well as the geologic wonders of Yellowstone National Park. Each description provides detailed information complete with maps on how to find the remote as well as popular digs, what will likely be found there, the tools to bring, the best season to visit, the appropriate vehicle to drive, and when to lace up your hiking boots to get to those really out of the way places. 158 pages
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Where to Find Gold and Gems in Nevada by James Klein. Nevada is the fifth largest gold producing state in the U.S. and today's modern prospector is still searching the hills and gullies for it and finding it! This helpful book delves into the history of the most important gold bearing areas and offers the modern prospector and gem hunter interesting and valuable information about these areas. Organized by county and by mining district, each chapter includes highway maps and descriptive text of historic and current mining sites, tells where and what gems and minerals can be found, and gives a short history of local ghost towns. 110 pages
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Colorado Rockhounding by Stephen M. Voynick. 372 pages of maps, photos, and instructions to more than 350 of Colorado's mineral, gemstone, and fossil collecting sites. This book provides an overview of the state's geologic origins and mining history, along with guidelines for safe, legal, and responsible rockhounding.
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Minerals of Arizona: A Field Guide for Collectors by Neil R Bearce. All locations are personally checked out by the author. All locations are different from the locations in book 2. This is a great book. This book is now out of print so soon they will be all gone ...
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| Minerals, Fossils, and Fluorescents of Arizona: A Field Guide for Collectors (Paperback) Neal R. Bearce
My personal favorite author of Arizona rockhounding books. All areas were checked personally by the author and the locations in this book are different from the locations in book one.
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The Rockhound's Handbook, by James R. Mitchell .. Rockhounding offers all ages the opportunity to learn about the nature and history of our physical world, and to explore it in landscapes as diverse as the rocks and minerals found there. In this greatly expanded edition, you will learn about: Basic geology and mineral formation, Minerals you can find and how to identify them, Planning a successful field trip, Collecting tools and techniques, Finding gold and other heavy minerals, Fossil formation and collecting fossils, Legal aspects of collecting, Specimen preparation and display, Basics of lapidary and jewelry making. There are numerous diagrams and photos, a full color insert of over 90 mineral and fossil specimens and an extensive glossary. 299 pages
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