From the author of "Minerals of Arizona-a Field Guide for Collectors", comes a second field guide for Arizona collectors. This is not an updated version of "Minerals of Arizona", but an entirely new, expanded field guide designed for not only the mineral collector, but for fossil and fluorescent collectors as well. No other Arizona rockhound book contains special independent sctions on fossils and fluorescents. The field research for this work took over 3 years during which the author traveled over 25,000 miles across Arizona and visited over 300 potential collecting sites. To aide the collector, Minerals, Fossils, and Fluorescents includes: - 90 collecting sites complete with site photographs and National Geographic Topo! (C) maps. - Global positioning system coordinates for each location. - A difficulty scale informing the reader of the effort required to reach, navigate, and collect at each site. - chapters covering the basic science of the minerals, fossils, and fluorescents to be collected. - The geological formations at each site and the scientific properties of the speimens found there. - 20 pages of full color photographs of specimens by the well-known mineral photographer Jeffrey Scovil including 5 pages of fluorescent minerals. - Over 400 pages of text, maps, and collecting site and specimen photographs.
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A Rockhound's Delight,
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This review is from: Minerals, Fossils, and Fluorescents of Arizona: A Field Guide for Collectors (Paperback)
This book is a valuable resource for the amateur rock and mineral collector. It is an important update to the author's earlier book, Minerals of Arizona. The topo maps are clear and extremely valuable, and the GPS info should be of help to those who rely on modern technology. The question of access to sites on private land is addressed, although only minimally, especially in this age of increased interest in small-scale mining. Road and trail access to many of the sites is very difficult, and prospectors need to be very well prepared to visit many of them.
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Best I've found for Arizona,
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I have the older 1999 edition of this book, and even so, it is much better than Gem Trails of Arizona by Mitchell and FAR superior to Rockhounding Arizona by Blair.
It not only provides information about sites that one can actually collect at (unlike Blair, which describes many sites closed to the public), the maps are fantastic, the directions superb, and the difficulty in reaching, finding and collecting at each site is given in any easy to understand format. This is definitely my "go to" book when I want to get down and dirty with Arizona's minerals. At some point, I'll have to get the updated version though, because some of the sites I've been to, while nice, appeared well picked over.
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A Good Book,
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This review is from: Minerals, Fossils, and Fluorescents of Arizona: A Field Guide for Collectors (Paperback)
A very handy reference for Arizona rockhounds. There are plenty of worthwhile sites with good background info and good written directions to the sites.
The only (small) problem is with the GPS coordinates. Many of them are wrong - so don't just plug them into your GPS as waypoints and expect to get there! If you are planning on using your GPS, do a sanity check BEFORE going out, check your maps and verify the GPS position is correct first. On the other hand, you really don't need a GPS at all - the written directions to the collecting areas are very good.
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