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This book is an asset to my studies as a Geology student, it is one of many good books needed in a rock jocks library.
An older book that I've used since college for resource and personal collection use. It's a shame the book is no longer made.
My daughter has loved collecting rocks since she could pick them up. This is her first rock book and we are very pleased. It is well layed out and seems very thourough. She is 6 and for her it was perfect.
Nice pictures. Doesn't have all common rocks in it, for example no Tiger's Eye.
Which would you rather have. Even if you are blind you could get someone else to tell you just how beautiful the photos in this book are. This book will keep you going back to those mountains and deserts and beaches and streams and and and need I continue. That is if they can catch their breath after seeing the Photo's. "Yes more than 75% of the (3)three Gram gold nuggets have yet to be found, They are still out there waiting for someone to walk along a stream and see them laying there." The day was bright and sunny with not a cloud in the sky. I have maybe three or four rocks I have found that look as good as the photos in the book. A chunk of gold the size of a brick 2X4X8 solid 24kt.
Actually I have three that are better than and one that is as good as the photo's in the book. Still if you have the chance even at 1% of finding a specimen that is even close to the photo in beauty it will be worth ten times what you have paid for this book. I keep looking for even more rocks just to find them. Such is life.
If you are not blind this is the book for you. Paint it white. Or a tiny little 3 gram nugget that you found on the edge of a stream on a high mountain meadow. The only sounds were of the insect's buzzing in the grasslands and an eagle calling from a spiral in the blue sky of a Rocky Mountain morning. Still it is as I have heard and known my whole life. I know that is not what old folks that are in there late fifty's are supposed to do is it. No 99% of the time you will not find the same item in the outdoors that you see in the book. My wife and I dearly love this book.
Yes for the money I spend on Gas and tires and places to sleep and eat.I could just buy some of these rocks from a rock dealer. It is not the having it is the finding. We have sat side by side and read and looked at the photos many times now. dray
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