Rock Identification Guide
This Rocks and minerals pocket guide for the beginning rockhound is also a great pocket reference for the advanced rock hound. Assists in identification of rocks and minerals and help you learn how they are formed and areas where they are most likely to be found. This book is well organized with full-color, full-page identification photos and complete facing page text.
Audubon Pocket Guide to Rocks
The novice rock hunter especially needs a good reference guide to carry along, but even experienced players like to keep a pocket reference handy and the Audubon Field Guide to Rocks and Minerals is a longtime favorite of rockhounds.
This vinyl bound guide is the only guide you'll need for identifying minerals and rocks with full descriptions and color images. Illustrations to help you find the natural environments for the rocks and ores you're hunting.
This book helps you learn the variations and likely places to find the minerals, rocks and even crystals you seek. Learn how to organize your collection and how they got their names. A popular guide since 1979.
Need More Than a Pocket Guide?
A more comprehensive, bigger book with more than 1,000 illustrations and photos is Simon & Schuster's Guide to Rocks and Minerals. They offer descriptions and pictures as well as insight into the formation, composition, chemical properties and such useful information. It's an oldie but a goodie; first released in 1978 and still sought after because of its quality. Yes, it costs a little more than a pocket Guidebook.
There are many excellent guides available to help you know exactly what you have found. If the choices here aren't enough, you can find them all at Amazon.
Whether you are just starting out or have boxes full of rocks already, you need a reliable and easy to use guide to help you identify rocks and minerals that you come across. This will help you learn to better spot a good find when you do find it. We can easily pass up some truly beautiful specimens if we don't know just what to look for in the rough. Many of nature's most beautiful rocks are disguised as plain old rocks; if you don't have the details handy, you may miss out.
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