Top 10 Best "Minerals" Books

National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Rocks and Minerals (National Audubon Society Field Guides)

NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY

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Peterson First Guide to Rocks and Minerals (0046442935432)

Frederick H. Pough
Roger Tory Peterson

Minerals

Peterson First Guide to Rocks and Minerals (0046442935432)

Written and designed for the beginner, this book describes and illustrates the most common and interesting rocks and minerals, from simple sandstone to exotic gems. Illustrated with dozens of beautiful color photographs, it tells how these rocks and minerals formed and how to identify them--and includes tips on collecting.

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Basher Rocks & Minerals

Simon Basher
Dan Green

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Rocks, Gems and Minerals

Paul R. Shaffer
Herbert S. Zim
Raymond Perlman

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Minerals of the World (Princeton Field Guides)

Ole Johnsen

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Manual of Mineral Science (Manual of Mineralogy)

Cornelis Klein
Barbara Dutrow

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Smithsonian Handbooks

Chris Pellant

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A Field Guide to Rocks and Minerals (Peterson Field Guides) (0046442910965)

Frederick H. Pough
Roger Tory Peterson
Jeffrey Scovil

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Smithsonian Handbooks

Chris Pellant

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Minerals

Hans-Rudolf Wenk
Andrei Bulakh

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Simon & Schuster's Guide to Rocks & Minerals

Practical, concise, and easy to use, Simon & Schuster's Guide to Rocks and Minerals contains everything that the rock and mineral enthusiast needs to know. This field guide is divided into two large sections -- one devoted to minerals and one to rocks, each prefaced by a comprehensive introduction that discusses formation, chemistry, and more. All 377 entries, beautifully illustrated with color photographs and helpful visual symbols, provide descriptions and practical information about appearance, classification, rarity, crystal formation, mode of occurrence, gravity of mineral, rock chemistry, modal classification fields, formational environments, grain sizes of rocks, and much more.

Whether you are a serious collector or an information-seeking amateur, this incomparably beautiful, authoritative guide will prove an invaluable reference.

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Simon & Schuster's Guide to Rocks & Minerals

Martin Prinz
George Harlow
Joseph Peters

Minerals

Gems and Gemstones

Lance Grande
Allison Augustyn

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