The Minerals Encyclopedia
The Minerals Encyclopedia by Rupert Hochleitner, published by Firefly Books in 2022, is a comprehensive guide designed for both amateur rockhounds and geology enthusiasts. This edition spans 445 pages and is presented in English. It features over 700 minerals and rocks, organized by color for easy navigation, making it an essential resource for those exploring old quarries, road cuts, and various landscapes.
Readers will find detailed information for each mineral, including chemical formulas, hardness, color, density, and more, accompanied by clear photographs. The book also includes diagrams of crystal forms and a glossary, along with an introduction to mineral collecting. With its practical layout and extensive coverage, The Minerals Encyclopedia serves as a valuable reference for anyone interested in nature, rocks, and mineralogy.
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Mineral collecting by amateur “rockhounds” has never been more popular. Old quarries, road cuts, and exposed landscapes are being examined by new generations of minerals enthusiasts. Each needs a comprehensive guidebook with clear photographs and accurate data. This is it.
In a thick but handy format, more than 700 different minerals and rocks are grouped by color (for ease of location in the book) — blue, red, yellow, brown, green, white and black crystals; brown and gray sedimentary rocks; and meteorites for anyone lucky enough to find one.
Each has a picture — four to a page — opposite detailed but clear data:
- Chemical formula
- Hardness
- Color
- Density
- Lustre
- Cleavage
- Fracture
- Tenacity
- Crystal form
- Similar minerals and where they are likely to occur. And many will have a diagram of its crystal form — up to four, for fluorite, for example.
The Minerals Encyclopedia is unusual for the number of minerals it covers: more than 700 in 448 pages, with a useful glossary, an introduction to mineral collecting, printed front and back flaps that offer quick reference in the field, and a measuring rule on the back cover. This is a superior reference for rockhounds, geology students and outdoors people with an interest in what’s under their feet.
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