Whether you're digging for the first time or are an experienced rockhound or 'prospector', with a simple rock hammer and a little luck, you too can strike it rich...or at the very least, have fun trying. This guide offers you easy to use information on the ins and outs of 'fee dig' mining, complete with locations, costs, tips on technique, entertaining legends and important information on everything from safety kits to the location of the nearest restrooms. Included are resources for use in identifying your finds, having them made into jewellery, and further pursuing an exciting -- and possibly profitable -- hobby.
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Kathy J Rygle and Stephen F Pedersen combine their scientific training with a hobbyist's passion. Lifelong rockhounds, both authors have shared this hobby - begun with their parents - with their children, and have travelled to many 'fee-dig' sites, museums and mine tours across the United States.
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Gem and Mineral Guide ( Northeast),
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This review is from: Northeast Treasure Hunter's Gem & Mineral Guide: Where & How to Dig, Pan, and Mine Your Own Gems & Minerals - 4 Volumes (Treasure Hunter's Gem & Mineral Guides) (Paperback)
This book is loaded with useless information. If your looking for someplace to mine gold or gems. This book will not tell you. It does however provide you with guide services contact information.So if your looking for a river or area in your state where you can pan some gold. Don't look in this book! I didn't see anything you can't see in the yellow pages of your local phone book.
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A book maybe for kids, not for real 'rock hounds',
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This review is from: Northeast Treasure Hunter's Gem & Mineral Guide: Where & How to Dig, Pan, and Mine Your Own Gems & Minerals - 4 Volumes (Treasure Hunter's Gem & Mineral Guides) (Paperback)
I made the mistake of buying this book NE, as well as SE and NW site unseen hoping it was something like Eckert's series. I was very disapointed. Very few sites are listed, most of those are very well known sites. In fact all of the sites listed in some states are only for mining or mineral museums! This may be a good book for kids or someone just getting started, but since Eckert's book has been republished, I really would point them there first. In fact, 5 minutes on the web can locate all the mining museums located in this book. Save your money for the Eckert series.
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