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Three books every rock and mineral collector should own. This is a collection of resources for teaching mineralogy at the undergraduate level. Mineralogy is the study of minerals, their crystalline and chemical structures, and their properties such as melting points. Quite simply the best reference for both professional and amateur lapidaries and enthusiasts. A mineral is a naturally occurring substance that is solid and inorganic representable by a chemical formula, and has an ordered atomic structure.
If the plugins are not installed, your web browser will either attempt to download the pdf files or offer to send you to the adobe web site to download the plugins for your browser. Society for the advancement of mineralogy, crystallography, geochemistry, and petrology, and promotion of their uses in other sciences, industry, and the arts. John sinkankas s lifelong fascination with rocks and minerals was his avocation during his 25year career with the u. Danas system of mineralogy and the mineralogische tabellen of h. The handbook of mineralogy series is a five volume set authored by john w. Considered by many to be the ultimate encyclopaedia of mineralogy, this text is very comprehensive and detailed, and has provided the basis for a plethora of other mineralogy and crystallography books.
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