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Lake Michigan Rock Picker's Guide

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for your next trip to a Lake Michigan beach. As a novice rock collector who was both fascinated and curious as to the identity of the stunningly beautiful stones covering many Lake Michigan Beaches, this book answered countless questions. A large variety of Lake Michigan rocks & fossils are identified and beautifully illustrated, with accompanying information on where they are likely to be found. Following Bruce Mueller & Kevin Gauthier's tips on how, when and where to find rock specimens has astronomically increased my success in rock collecting. The information on the formation, history, preparation [cleaning/grinding/polishing techniques] and craft/jewelry uses of Lake Michigan stones provided in this book are priceless. Humorous and philosophical at times, this wonderful book has what it takes to educate, entertain and reveal the nature of the treasures lying along Lake Michigan's shoreline.

This book is the best book on rocks I have ever read or bought! Each rock has a explaintion and colored photos. The book inspired me so much that when I went to Sleeping Bear Dunes I had to stop in at Mr. Mueller's "C & M rock shop in Honor Michigan" He was there and signed my books and was so helpful in answering any questions I had. His store is a must for anyone who is a rock nut or just wants to learn and see some beautiful rocks and fossils of the Michigan area. I am so happy with this book! It's a gotta buy book!

My family spent a week at a relatives cottage near Cedar Michigan. We spend a few hours on one particular beach and collected a whole assortment of Lake Michigan rocks.

At the cottage they had Bruce Mueller's other book on Petoskey stones (very interesting). On the back it mentioned this book on Lake Michigan Rocks.

I picked up this book the other day and grabbed the bucket of rocks we brought home with us from our trip. What a great resource this book is. My kids were really getting into it and soon we had almost the whole bucket sorted out by what type of rock they were (about 13+ different kinds). Initially I only knew how to identify Pestoskey's and quartz. Using the books color pictures and descriptions really made it easy.

Of course we had some rocks categorized under "mystery rock", but I would say that this book helped us identify about 95% of them.

Before buying this book I went to the local bookstore (big chain) to look at other rock identification books. In short they were totally worthless. Other than a Petoskey they had none of the other rock types we found.

If you have a bucket full of Lake Michigan rocks you want identified, go buy this book. You wont regret it.

P.S My son found a Petoskey bigger than my hand on that trip. I'm reading over the "polishing" section now to find out how to make it shiny like the ones you see in the store. FUN!!!

Rock picking has become a hobby with me. I needed books to help me identify the rocks I picked up in the U.P. of Michigan. This book is very informative and has help me considerably. I would recommend rock picking to everyone. It is a fun hobby for me. Mother Nature has given me a reason to look down, instead of always up.

Very informational for children to adults. Great reference. Colored pictures a definite plus

I take this book with me every time I travel to Lake Michigan from my home in Athens, Georgia. The book comes in very handy and is inspirational to boot. My son and my nephew both pore over the book. The color photos are invaluable as well - other similar books I've purchased had black and white photos printed on regular (non-glossy) paper, and the photos were quite worthless as you couldn't discern details at all.

I pick up lots of stones on Lake Michigan beaches, many of which are petoskeys. But others I pick are just unusual in some way. Now, with this little book I know what most of them are. Bruce Mueller and Kevin Gauthier have packed their book with useful info and some great color picture samples of stones found on Lake Michigan. If you like to "rock pick" on Lake Michigan, you need this book.

Living near the shore of Lake Michigan in Union Pier,Michigan our family loves this book to identify items we have found, and to inspire us on to find the ones we haven't yet. (Who knew there were diamonds in Lake Michigan?) It gives good advice on where you are more likely to find a specific item (though I don't think he spent enough time at the Chikaming Twp. Road end beaches--where we find a huge variety of fossils and rocks)Its small and paper-back and comes with us in the glove box when we head up north. Well worth the price.

As a long-time Michigan rock-picker, I was thrilled to find a book that helps me identify my rocks and plan future outings. The only thing that would have been better in this book would have been more color plates, but I understand that doing that would have made the book more expensive.

I was altogether pleased with the book. However, because of the "low postage" message
given alongside it, I was given to believe that the postage would be much lower than
the $9.00 charged to me. That price was almost equal to the book. Perhaps I made a
mistake in how I read the message, but there was no way to cancel the order (per
a second message given after I clicked the place-order tab).