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Minerals, Rocks and Precious Stones

By: Jaroslav Bauer
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Bookmart Ltd
ISBN: 1856054438
ISBN-13: 9781856054430
Released: 01 Sep 1998
RRP: £3.99
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Indispensable. - By: , 05 Jul 2001
Books like this are rare. You find a black coloured rock, go straight to the colour coded pages (the page edges are coloured too!), decide if it's metalllic or non-metalllic, check the excellent illustrations, & you are almost there.

Test the hardness, streak - & you will almost certainly identify it. If that fails, flip to the back pages & ifentify it by streak or lustre first...and so on. Brilliant - get it while it's still in print.

An excellently produced book, easily read by amateurs. - By: marythemarshalls@aol.com, 29 Apr 2001
Minerals, Rocks & Precious Stones is an ideal book for the young or amateur who is interested in this subject. The book is set out with information on the left hand page & the coloured plates on the right (with numbers to identify each piece of ore). In addition it gives the location where each place was found, & any other relevant information.

I liked the way the book was colour coded, (e.g a coloured strip down the right hand side of the page to identify the colour category each mineral/metalllic lustre for easy location.

There is also an abundance of information prior to the coloured plates, describing the structure & lustre of many types of certain minerals, & explains which elements are important for industrial purposes. It also explain the origin of minerals, picturing line drawn crystal structures & giving their system shape names for identification. In alll there are 576 illustrations in full colour, & I would recommend this book for a anyone of any age with an interest in this subject, from youngsters with enquiring minds, amateurs (like myself) & those more dedicated.

I find the subject quite fascinating, alllowing us to view pieces of ore/rock/crystal millions of years old, which have been thrown up by volcanoes & other cataclysmic times of our Earth...