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title: "Rocks and Minerals: A Guide to Field Identification (Golden Field Guide f/St. Martin's Press)"
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# Rocks and Minerals: A Guide to Field Identification (Golden Field Guide f/St. Martin's Press)

**Brand:** charles a. sorrellgeorge f. sandström
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- **What is this?** Rocks and Minerals: A Guide to Field Identification (Golden Field Guide f/St. Martin's Press) by charles a. sorrellgeorge f. sandström
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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    A Great Book For Amateur Mineral Collectors
  

*by D***R on Reviewed in the United States on October 29, 2014*

This is a very good intermediate book on minerals and mineralogy for advanced amateurs.  It has many tables and scientific illustrations showing the atomic and molecular makeup of minerals and rocks, the crystal systems and the families of minerals based on chemical composition.  There are many high quality illustrations of scores of minerals to accompany the text.  This book fits easily in the collectors carryall and provides much useful information for the collector.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Great intermediate guide.
  

*by A***R on Reviewed in the United States on November 15, 2016*

I grew up on Zim's Golden Guide to Rocks and Minerals Rocks and Minerals: A Guide to Familiar Minerals, Gems, Ores and Rocks (Golden Guides), which is great, but I wanted something a little more advanced for a son who is studying mineralogy, yet with similar great illustrations.  This fit the bill perfectly.  It may be a little dated, but geology and chemistry haven't changed.  I wish I'd had this when I was younger.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Still one the classics!
  

*by J***N on Reviewed in the United States on July 13, 2012*

Even though this book was printed in 1973 and is celebrating its 37th year, it remains one of my favorite mineral references.Particularly different about this field guide is its use of artist-drawn color renderings of the specimens discussed. Oftentimes in a photo-illustrated guide, one tends to use the photo as the "absolute" and may be disappointed to find that his personal collection is nowhere as fine as the color photos in most mineral guides.With the hand-drawn and full-color illustrations, it is much easier to use your imagination and see your specimen in place of the one in this book.The illustrations are clear, precise and certainly bring more of a sense of this guidebook being "hand-crafted" and full of collectible specimens that are not always National Mineral Collection quality.I especially like the author's many illustrations of the "idealized" look of the mineral. Those are far better than the stick-figure crystal illustrations found in every guide. This book uses them as well, but seeing a rendering of how the mineral would look without other mineral inclusions or on a base rock of one kind or another is a neat way to visualize how nature intended this specie of mineral to be formed.The book is also perfectly sized for pocket or day-pack carrying. It easily slips into a back pocket on one's jeans and can fit into a water bottle pouch on a day-pack as if it were made for this book.Mineralogically speaking, this guide is arranged in order of mineral type: native metals, sulfides, halides, etc.  This arrangement certainly is helpful in learning where these minerals "live" on the elemental spectrum although that arranging does make identifying a specimen a bit more difficult since we humans tend to look first at things like color, luster or feel (hardness.)I just purchased this book again because I wore out my first copy that I bought sometime shortly after its publication.It was my constant companion on many hikes through our beautiful Alaskan scenery and more importantly, was instrumental in instilling in my two grandchildren a love of minerals and rock collecting. This began at age four for both my granddaughter and grandson. Today, as pre-teens, they both have growing collections and as a gift from granddad...A copy of this book in their collector's day-pack.Yes...when this copy wears out from use, I will buy it again!

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