The World's Finest Minerals and Crystals
Author: Peter Bancroft
Publisher:
Published: 1973
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9780500010914
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Peter Bancroft
Publisher:
Published: 1973
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9780500010914
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Peter Bancroft
Publisher: Penguin Putnam
Published: 1973
Total Pages: 184
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Rare specimens of minerals and crystals from private and public collections are depicted in color plates and descriptive notes.
Author: Margaret Ann Lembo
Publisher: Llewellyn Worldwide
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 458
ISBN-13: 0738732524
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Improve your life on all levels--mentally, physically, emotionally, and spiritually--with this essential reference guide to 160 easily-procured crystals, minerals, and stones. Packed with practical knowledge and 190 beautiful full-color photos, this easy-to-use handbook will teach you all about the gemstone world. Each page provides you with concise information: stone name and properties, color, corresponding chakra, planet, element, zodiac sign, numerological association, and mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual uses. Margaret Ann Lembo's metaphysical crystal directory will also give you Mohs scale ratings, divinatory meanings, and a series of positive affirmations for each stone. Learn how to charge, cleanse, and use gemstones in healing grids, plus how to use them as oracles for personal development and spiritual awakening. Praise: "When energetically used with the understandings and tips provided in this A-Z essential guide, all good things are possible. Your 'everything' go-to for crystals!"--Cyndi Dale, bestselling author of The Complete Book of Chakra Healing and Beyond Soul Mates "A must-have guide for anyone who even enjoys picking up rocks. Her straight-from-the-hip approach is matched by her passion, love and knowledge of each and every geode, multifaceted crystal, and everything in between."--Joan Ranquet, author of Communication with All Life
Author: Wendell E. Wilson
Publisher:
Published: 2004-11
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The collection of natural mineral crystals housed at the Houston Museum of Natural Science is the finest and best known in the world. Now the treasures of this singular collection are shown in resplendent photographs that will seduce both the connoisseur of beauty and the student of natural history.
Author: Lance Grande
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2009-11-15
Total Pages: 387
ISBN-13: 0226305112
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Gems and Gemstones" features nearly 300 color images of cut gems, precious and semiprecious stones, gem-quality mineral specimens, and fine jewelry to be unveiled in the new Grainger Hall of Gems at the Field Museum in Chicago.
Author: Walter Schumann
Publisher: N. A. G. Press
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 279
ISBN-13: 9780719803017
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A comprehensive manual of the world's gemstones and includes more than 1,400 examples. Opposite each illustration, this text provides a description of the particular stone, including details of the properties and chemical composition which makes the stone unique. It also gives information on location of major deposits, and alternative names.
Author: Peter Bancroft
Publisher:
Published: 1984-01-01
Total Pages: 488
ISBN-13: 9780961346119
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →100 field trips to many of the world's exotic gem and crystal mines.
Author: Walter Schumann
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 390
ISBN-13: 9780395511374
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Contains descriptions and photographs of approximately six hundred minerals, rocks, and meteorites, providing information about the history, origin, structure, composition, properties, classification, and location of each specimen.
Author: Walter Schumann
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 140275339X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →It's the classic work revised and updated! Identify over 500 of the most collectible minerals quickly and easily with this fully photographed field guide. And this new reissue makes identification easier, with new cleavability ratings for each entry alongside the handy classifications based on streak colour, Mohs' hardness and specific gravity. A complete introductory discussion of mineral forms and properties explains the essential criteria for recognition, and each of the hundreds of minerals (from Ankerite to Zinwaldite) is accompanied by information on its fracture, luster, chemical formula, aggregates, distinguishing characteristics and localities.
Author: Walter Schumann
Publisher: Sterling Publishing (NY)
Published: 1977
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Describes the appearance, formation, physical properties and characteristics, mining, and cutting of precious, semiprecious, and synthetic gemstones.