 | Collecting the Natural World: Legal Requirements & Personal Liability for Collecting Plants, Animals, Rocks, Minerals & Fossils by Donald Wolberg
Buy used from: $2.25 Rocks can be fun, but you've gotta know the rules! Collectors without scruples close sites to everyone.
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 | A Field Guide to Rocks and Minerals (Peterson Field Guides) by Frederick H. Pough
Buy new: $13.60 / Used from: $3.00 Whether "Pugh" or "Poe", this is the classic "blue" rock and mineral guide. I use my old "blue" in the field and keep the new one in my classroom.
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 | DK Handbooks: Rocks & Minerals by Chris Pellant
Buy used from: $1.96 My new favorite and the one I like to give to new rockhounds.
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 | Eyewitness: Rocks & Minerals (Eyewitness Books) by DK Publishing
Buy used from: $0.22 If the one above is "too old" for your budding rockhound. Go DK!
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 | Simon & Schuster's Guide to Rocks & Minerals
Buy new: $11.56 / Used from: $1.63 My high school students like to use this one during the mineral lab.
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 | National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Rocks and Minerals (National Audubon Society Field Guides) by NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $5.20 The plates are organized by color rather than chemical group making this one easier to use for some beginners.
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 | Gem Trails of Southern California. by James R. Mitchell
Buy used from: $16.76 Good series of collecting guides. Emphasis is on material that can be cut and polished. E-mail me and I'll tell you what the purple mineral in the Bristol Mountains really is!
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 | Rockhounding California by Gail A. Butler
Buy new: $10.36 / Used from: $6.21 I always have this one in my car on collecting trips.
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 | Southern & Central California Atlas and Gazetteer by Delorme
Buy used from: $7.73 My favorite road trip atlas series. I keep my old copies of this one [I'm on number 3 now] because of all the field notes they contain.
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 | Benchmark California Road & Recreation Atlas (Benchmark Map: California Road & Recreation Atlas) by Benchmark Maps
Buy used from: $9.92 My other favorite road trip atlas series.
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 | Beneath our Feet: The Rocks of Planet Earth by Ron Vernon
Buy new: $54.94 / Used from: $0.31 The most elegent rock book for non-scientists ever written. Worth having in hardback.
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 | National Gem Collection by Jeffrey E. Post
Buy used from: $1.88 If you don't want to go out and get your own specimens, enjoy these from our national collection.
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 | Everybody Needs a Rock by Byrd Baylor
Buy new: $13.22 / Used from: $5.83 Everybody needs a copy of this book! It says so much. Not just for kids.
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 | Dana's New Mineralogy: The System of Mineralogy of James Dwight Dana and Edward Salisbury Dana by Richard V. Gaines
Buy used from: $150.00 The 8th edition of Dana's System of Mineralogy. For diehards only. Every mineral known to man. VERY EXPENSIVE!
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