[Rockhounds] Rock and Minerals Books

[Kreigh Tomaszewski]

Ethel,

Look for a rock club near you at www.amfed.org. You are more likely to  
get accurate identifications if experienced local rockhounds can hold  
your unknown specimens and look at them. Getting connected with your  
local community of rockhounds can only improve your knowledge.

Pick up a Golden guide on Amazon, or at many other dealers. It is a  
great intro book. You might also want to look for an Audibon guide to  
help indentify the specimens you have collected at a more serious level.

Kreigh





On Monday, Nov 3, 2008, at 10:13 America/Detroit, Ethel craven-sweet  
wrote:

> I am new to Rockhounds and really more serious about rock collecting  
> now that I am fighting colon cancer and taking chemotherapy for it and  
> go to Port Orchard, WA every other week to recuperate and their horse  
> pasture has many, many rocks which I collect to add to my small? rock  
> collection.  I live in an apartment but have rocks everywhere even on  
> my balcony so that is why I put the ? behind small. 
>
> I am looking for books on rock collecting and what books explain rocks  
> and minerals in not so technical terms.  Pete's mention of the book,  
> Golden Guide to Rocks and Minerals, sounds like one I need.  Does  
> anyone know where I can find it?
>
> Also, are there any books which tell the names of rocks?  I just  
> collect pretty rocks and don't have the slightest idea of what they  
> are except white quartz.  I think I might have found some rose quartz  
> and a brownish kind of quartz and a greenish quartz--if there are such  
> things, but don't know.. 
>
> Thanks for any help you can give me.
>
> Ethel Craven-Sweet
> grandsktn1 at yahoo.com
>
> --- On Tue, 10/28/08, Pmodreski at aol.com <Pmodreski at aol.com> wrote:
> From: Pmodreski at aol.com <Pmodreski at aol.com>
> Subject: Re: [Rockhounds] children's rock kit
> To: rockhounds at lists.drizzle.com
> Date: Tuesday, October 28, 2008, 9:08 PM
>
> The kit sounds pretty good, Kitty.  You can't expect any one product   
> like
> this to cover "everything".
>
> I would suggest that for any young person... or beginner old person (or
> anyone for that matter), a copy of the Golden Guide to Rocks and  
> Minerals;
> there
> are many, many other rock & mineral field guides, but I still think  
> this is
>
> about the best one for an introduction to the subject.
>
> Pete
>
>
>
> In a message dated 10/28/2008 5:46:54 P.M. Mountain Daylight Time,
> kahako at hawaiiantel.net writes:
>
> Hi to  those on the list who are teachers or especially interested in
> inspiring  kids in our hobby:
>
> I recently bought a Rocks & Minerals kit put  together by DK Eyewitness
> Books.  I got it at Costco for $19.69 and  it contains a 72-page book
> with lots of pictures and presents a multitude  of topics using only  
> two
> facing pages (double-page spread) for each  topic.  The kit also  
> contains
> a smaller 64-page book called "Expert  Files, a Hands-on Guide to  
> Geology
> As Explained by Professionals in the  Field," a Clip-art CD, a booklet  
> of
> tear-out profile cards, a wall chart,  a wall map of world geology and
> plates, and a set of paper cut-outs to be  folded and glued to form  
> some
> basic crystal models.  These are all in  a fold-out box with pockets  
> for
> each item, and the box fits in an  impressive sleeve about 9" x 12" x
> 2".
>
> My impressions is that this is a  pretty good introduction to kids  
> ages 9
> and up.  There are topics on  cutting and polishing, collecting, ores  
> and
> metals, fossils, as well as  many others.  I have a couple of mild
> reservations:  for  example, the double-page spread on volcanic rocks
> makes no mention of  pahoehoe and a'a, however in another spread on
> "What
> are rocks and  minerals?" they show a picture and explain how
> "Pele's
> hair" is  made.  There's nothing on fluorescence or other types of
> luminescence.  And especially for kids, I think at least a page  should
> be on the many uses of rocks and minerals in human daily life, from
> cosmetics to bombs.  And I'm not enough of a scientist to know  whether
> their technical stuff is correct or not.
>
> I think that  before I give it to any of my young relations I'll keep  
> it
> to show to  friends -- young and adult -- to get their impressions.  I
> tried to  find reviews on Amazon and elsewhere, but could only find
> comments on the  book (Rocks & Minerals, DK Eyewitness Expert) not the
> whole kit.   Any of you who have seen the kit, please let me know what
> you  think.
>
> Aloha,  Kitty
>
>
>
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