This electronic book on CD-ROM presents comprehensive information from the U.S. Geological Survey on minerals, including the very impressive "Mineral Yearbook" compiled by the USGS. There is detailed information about the production and use of every important mineral in the world – from abrasives to zirconium - with commodity summaries, nation surveys, state surveys, and industry surveys. Fascinating documents about rock and mineral collecting, gemstones, and gold round out this amazing collection.
In all, the disc has over 25,000 pages reproduced using Adobe Acrobat PDF software - allowing direct viewing on Windows and Apple Macintosh systems. Reader software is included on the CD.
This book-on-a-disc makes a superb reference work for anyone interested in minerals! It is designed to provide a convenient user-friendly general reference work, utilizing the benefits of the Adobe Acrobat format to uniformly present thousands of pages that can be rapidly reviewed or printed without untold hours of tedious searching and downloading. Vast archives of important public domain government information that might otherwise remain inaccessible are available for instant review no matter where you are.
