Desert Gem Trails

~Mary Frances Strong - 80 pgs

There are hundreds of collecting localities described in this field guide to the gem and mineral localities of the Mojave and Colorado Deserts in California. Desert Gem Trails is profusely illustrated with detailed maps and provides concise road logs and directions to collecting spots. The author details what types of specimens and rough are found and what types of tools and equipment are required to collect them. Information regarding road conditions, camping and nearby points of interest is also provided.

Price: $5.00

Falling Stars a Guide to Meteors & Meteorites

~Mike D., Ph.D. Reynolds

Written by Mike D. Reynolds, this book provides a straightforward, thorough look at all aspects of meteors and meteorites, including how and where meteors originate, when and where to watch for them, and how to classify, collect, and preserve meteorites. Meteor showers, interesting meteorite craters, and tektites are all discussed in detail. Also contains a comprehensive listing of meteorite organizations, dealers, museums, and references. An invaluable guide for anyone interested in astronomy.

Price: $16.95

Gem Trails of Arizona

~James Mitchell - 272 pgs

From azurite to wulfenite, Arizona is known the world over for its rich abundance of rocks and minerals. Now in its third edition, this best-selling guide covers well-known sites, and uncovers many lesser-known areas as well. Situated in landscapes as diverse as the minerals themselves, these sites vary from arid desert to pine covered peaks. Detailed text describes where to go and what to look for at each collecting area. Maps for each site lead the rockhound to an almost limitless supply of specimens. Black and white photographs picture the collecting area. Color photographs highlight beautiful specimens found at various sites. Gem Trails of Arizona is an invaluable guide for rockhounds just starting out, or filled with expert advice and years of experience. For the experienced collector who has searched from Arizona's mineral resources for years, it is an outstanding source of the old and the new sites throughout the scenic state. James Mitchell, a contributor to the Lapidary Journal, teaches school during the year and spends summers searching the West for additional gem and mineral locations.

Price: $11.95

Gem Trails of Nevada

~James Mitchell - 192 pgs

Nevada has long been known for its vast mineral deposits, and, in fact, the state's official nickname is "The Silver State." That mineral abundance is not limited to commercial metals, but also to the plethora of other gemstones that can be gathered within its boundaries. If you choose to visit all of the sites discusses, you will not only be able to gather an incredible variety of minerals and gems, but will also ravel through landscapes with equally as much variety. Detailed travel instructions are provided for each location, with an accompanying map and photo to assist with locating sites. Mileage is as accurate as possible. Detailed text describes where to go and what to look for at over 50 sites throughout the state of Nevada. Includes a mineral locator index for easier rockhounding. The best rockhounding book on the market for collecting, gems, minerals, and stones in Nevada!

Price: $12.95

Gem Trails of New Mexico

~James Mitchell - 280 pgs

The Land of Enchantment is a rockhound's paradise with 122,000 miles of terrain to explore. Over 90 different specimen types may be found in New Mexico, and collecting locales vary widely, encompassing mountainous climbs, forested regions, desert plains and everything in-between, offering ample opportunity to enjoy the state's noted scenery.

The completely revised edition contains over 100 collecting sites, including 25 new locations. All locations have been updated to include GPS coordinates, necessary tools, road conditions, driving directions and location map. Color photos of the wide range of rocks, minerals and fossils found in the state will help you identify your finds.

Price: $14.95

Gem Trails of Northern California

~James Mitchell - 191 pgs

In this up-dated edition detailed text and maps lead rockhounds to over 76 locations where 60 varieties of California's mineral and fossil treasures can be collected, and weekend prospectors can pan for gold. Full-color specimen photos inspire your collecting efforts and black and white photos help to locate sites as diverse as the minerals themselves. With a Mineral Locator Index and Glossary and helpful contact info, this is the most complete guide to gem, fossil and mineral collecting in Northern California.

Price: $12.95

Gem Trails of Oregon

~ Garret Romaine - 272 pgs

Revised and expanded 3E of this very popular guide for Oregon rockhounds and collectors of rock, mineral and fossil specimens. Features over 100 of Oregon's best rock, mineral and fossil collecting sites, including 40 completely new locations. Sites include detailed maps, descriptive text and photos, GPS coordinates, tools required and nearby attractions. With a mineral locator index, glossary, list of mineral clubs and mineral museums, plus a full-color specimen photo insert, this is the indispensable guidebook for either beginning or experienced mineral and fossil hunters.

Price: $14.95

Gem Trails of Southern California

~James Mitchell - 214 pgs

Detailed maps and descriptive text lead the rockhound to over 82 of the best collecting locales for gems, minerals, and fossils. Numerous black and white photos aid in locating the collecting area and color photos help with specimen identification. Includes a handy mineral locator index, glossary and helpful contact information.

Price: $12.95

Gem Trails of Texas

~Brad Lee Cross - 168 pgs

This is a classic guide to over 50 of the best rockhounding sites the Lone Star State has to offer.

Sites are presented with directions, rockhounding tips, descriptive text, updated maps and numerous black and white photos. Divided into six geographical regions, which include convenient introductions to each area and a site locator map, this field guide also contains: a handy mineral locator index; glossary; lists of museums and gem and mineral societies; and a beautiful full-color insert of rock, fossil and mineral specimens found along the gem trails.

From rolling green hills and rocky mountains to lake beaches and southwestern ranches, this book will tell you where to look, what to look for, what to bring, how to get there and what you can expect to find.

Whether you are an amateur or experienced rockhound, Gem Trails of Texas is the essential guide to finding quality rocks, fossil, mineral and gem sites throughout Texas.

Price: $12.95

Gem Tumbling and Baroque Jewelry Making

~Arthur Earl Victor - 58 pgs

Learn how to polish your gems and turn your pretty rocks into something profitable - jewelry making! Book contains detailed information on everything you would need to know to start making professional looking jewelry.

Price: $4.50

Gold & Gems in Nevada

~James Klein

Find out where the best gold locations are found in each county of Nevada. In fact, probably more is out there to be found by the determined prospector than at any time in recent years. Amazingly enough, the old diggings are still the best places to look for gold. Ride along with veteran prospector, James Klein, miner and author of numerous books on gold mining, as he discusses the possibilities for you to find gold and gems. Helpful detailed maps make locating gold easy. Learn about the geology of placer deposits, where to pan in the desert, how to stake a claim, and much more! Filled with helpful photos, detailed illustrations, and descriptive text and glossary that will help you on your way to "showing color!"

Price: $8.95

Placer Gold Deposits of Arizona

~Eldred Wilson - 148 pgs

This is a reprint of the classic Arizona Bureau of Mines publication on gold placers in Arizona. Locations are listed by county, giving a summary of the geology and history of gold production. An excellent overview of small scale gold placering follows with facts about gold and how to find gold. Includes detailed information about gold pans, sluices, cradle rockers and long toms. The final section of the book includes information on selling gold, legislation concerning prospecting, and the southwestern environs.

Price: $8.95

Placer Gold Deposits of Nevada

~Maureen G. Johnson - 118 pgs

This book is an excellent source of information for narrowing down your search for nugget hunting (as in my case) or for prospecting in Nevada. It will save you a lot of time looking in areas where placer gold has not been found, and that is 95% of the battle in locating nugget-hunting areas. This is one of about 3 must-have books for "nuggeteering" in Nevada. Good prospecting!!

Price: $7.95

Placer Gold Deposits of the Sierra Nevada

~Paul D. Morrison - 192 pgs

The history and geology of the Mother Lode Gold Country of California were well documented in numerous government mineral resource surveys throughout the century. This book compiles data from those reports, long unavailable, in a concise, convenient edition that concentrates on gold placer, hydraulic, and drift mines-giving location information as well as history and past production figures. Covering the mines of the Mother Lode, it also includes the other gold-producing counties of the southern and northern Sierra Nevada range, and the dredging areas of the American, Feather, and Yuban Rivers. More than twenty county maps, this is the complete guide to prospecting the Gold Country of California.

Price: $9.95

Rainbow Minerals

~Bob Jones - 48 pgs

A collection of beautiful pictures of minerals under fluorescent lighting.

Price: $6.95

Rock & Minerals

(Simon and Schuster's)

~Martin Prinz - 607 pgs

Practical, concise, and easy to use, Simon & Schuster's Guide to Rocks and Minerals contains everything that the rock and mineral enthusiast needs to know. This field guide is divided into two large sections -- one devoted to minerals and one to rocks, each prefaced by a comprehensive introduction that discusses formation, chemistry, and more. All 377 entries, beautifully illustrated with color photographs and helpful visual symbols, provide descriptions and practical information about appearance, classification, rarity, crystal formation, mode of occurrence, gravity of mineral, rock chemistry, modal classification fields, formational environments, grain sizes of rocks, and much more.

Whether you are a serious collector or an information-seeking amateur, this incomparably beautiful, authoritative guide will prove an invaluable reference.

Price: $19.00

Rockhounding Arizona

~Gerry Blair - 165 pgs

Here are forests of petrified wood, veins of brilliant turquoise, and troves of facet-grade garnet, peridot, and amethyst - in all, more than 640 mineral species that make Arizona a rockhound's paradise. Author Gerry Blair describes more than seventy five of the state's best rockhounding areas, from jasper hunting in the historic mining district near Bagdad to searching for gold in the Superstition mountains and digging for turquoise at the foot of the Hieroglyphic range.

New Version - Price: $15.95

Rockhounding California

~Gail Butler - 200 pgs

Although known for its gold production, California is a virtual haven for rock and gem collectors. With this informative guide, you can explore the mineral-rich desert regions, comb tide-washed beaches for jade, agate, abalone, fossilized whale bone, and prospect in the mountains and hills for gold, copper, and other minerals and gems. It describes 75 of the state's best rockhounding sites and covers popular and commercial sites as well as numerous little-known areas. This handy guide also describes how to collect specimens, includes maps and directions to each site, and lists rockhound clubs around the state. Rockhounding California offers a complete introduction to this many-faceted hobby and is an outstanding guide and sourcebook.

Price: $12.95

Rockhounding Colorado

~William A. Kappele - 256 pgs

From agate and fossils in the land of the dinosaurs to the 14,000-foot peak of Mount Antero, Rockhounding Colorado guides the amateur collector to more than 70 of the best rockhounding sites in the Centennial State. Lively text, accurate maps, and clear site descriptions reveal great sources of rhodonite, alabaster, tourmaline, amethyst, blue barite, and much more.

Price: $14.95

Rockhounding Montana

~ Robert Feldman - 154 pgs

Search for stunning Montana agate along the Yellowstone River. Hunt for sapphires at the Spokane Bar Sapphire Mine. Help paleontologists excavate dinosaurs in Malta. Rockhounding Montana points the way to the best rockhounding in the state, including popular and commercial areas as well as lesser known sites on public land. This guide is an excellent sourcebook for experts and novices alike.

Price: $14.95

Rockhounding Nevada

~William A. Kappele - 168 pgs

Veteran rockhound and author William A. Kappele provides detailed directions to each site, concise information about the materials and gem stones you may find there, what tools to bring, the best season to visit, what kind of vehicle you will need to get there, and a wealth of other information to tantalize beginners as well as the most ardent rockhounds. After over 30 years of scouring the American West for lapidary fodder, Kappele says many of the sites in this book are by far some of the best he's yet encountered. May your journey be fruitful and your collecting bag be heavy on the way home, and be sure that somewhere in that bag, among your rocks, you haven't forgotten your copy of Rockhounding Nevada.

Price: $12.95

Rockhounding Utah

~William A. Kappele - 192

Author William A. Kappele shows you the grandeur of Utah's exposed formations, its canyon walls etched with fossils, and the spires and arches of the Needles District in Canyonlands National Park. Each description includes concise information on the material to be found there, the tools to bring, the best season to visit, the vehicle to drive, or when a remote find suggests it's time to lace up the hiking boots. Readers will glean new insights into the obsidian of the Black Rock sites, jasper at Hell's Backbone, petrified wood at Bullfrog Turnoff, and fossils of sea lillies along the Wasatch Range. May your journeys be fruitful and your bag be heavy on the way home. Somewhere in that bag among your rocks, we hope you haven't forgotten your copy of Rockhounding Utah.

Price: $12.95

Rockhounding Wyoming

~Kenneth Graham - 168 pgs

Although the rockhounding treasures are many in this vast and sparsely populated state, author Kenneth Graham points out that 'sometimes the joy is in the search itself.' The 75 sites described in this guide will take you across the red desert to the high mountain majesty of the Big Horns and Wind Rivers as well as the geologic wonders of Yellowstone National Park. Graham, a former hardrock miner, developed an interest in rocks at an early age, and he shares his enthusiasm for rockhounding and his appreciation for the diverse Wyoming landscape that holds the treasure. Each description provides detailed information complete with maps on how to find the remote as well as popular digs, what will likely be found there, the tools to bring, the best season to visit, the appropriate vehicle to drive, or when to lace up your hiking boots to get to those out-of-the-way places. Be sure to take along Rockhounding Wyoming to plan your next rockhounding adventure.

Price: $12.95

Rocks and Minerals of California

~Vinson Brown- 200 pgs

Price: $13.95

Rocks from Space

~O. Richard Norton - 447 pgs

This popular nontechnical introduction to meteorites, asteroids, comets, and impact craters is now even better! With more than 50 new photographs and illustrations, updated and revised text, and fun cosmic humor.

Price: $32.00

The Mother Lode Country Geologic Guidebook along Highway 49

~Hank - 164 pgs

With pictures, maps, and brief histories on different regions around the Mother Lode.

Price: $19.99

The Rockhounders Handbook

~James Mitchell - 320 pgs

Revised and expanded 2nd Edition of this popular reference guide for rockhounds and field collectors of rocks, minerals and fossils. Includes expanded sections on basic geology and mineral formation; how to find and identify minerals in the field; collecting tools and techniques; finding gold and other heavy minerals; fossil formation and collecting fossils; the legal aspects of collecting; specimen preparation and display plus the basics of lapidary and jewelry making. Illustrated throughout with photos, diagrams and charts; features 16-page color insert of over 90 specimens; extensive glossary; lists of government agencies and museums and much more. An indispensable how-to book for beginners and a comprehensive reference guide for experienced collectors.

Price: $15.95

The Rockhound's Guide to New Mexico

~Melinda Crow - 168 pgs

More than one third of New Mexico is public land holding huge amounts of mineralogical treasure. Find unusual mineral displays, fossils, jasper, agate, petrified wood, and more obsidian than one rockhound could collect in a lifetime. This guide describes 75 of the state's best rockhounding sites, covering the popular and commercial sites as well as numerous little-known areas. It also includes where and how to collect specimens, maps and directions to each site, and provides recommendations for accommodations, camping, and other special attractions.

Price: $12.95

Ultraviolet Light and Fluorescent Minerals

~Thomas Warren, Sterling Gleason, Richard Bostwick, Earl Verbeek - 209 pgs

This book takes a broad look at the hobby of mineral fluorescence. It offers discussions of the major fluorescent minerals and mineral groups, techniques for collection them either on field trips or through trade and purchase, and the many ways fluorescent minerals can be displayed and enjoyed in the home. Fluorescent minerals present a puzzle. Many are of quite ordinary appearance in daylight, but when placed under the invisible rays of an ultraviolet lamp in a darkened room, they suddenly glow in beautiful colors. The transformation is so marked and so mysteriously compelling that many people instantly wish to learn more about it. This book provides information on the nature of ultraviolet light, how it causes fluorescence in a wide range of minerals, and how hobbyists can extract years of pleasure learning about them.

Price: $14.95

Waybills to El Dorado Vol 1 of 5

~Karl von Mueller - 71 pgs

True clues to lost or hidden treasure. Contains stories and some facts for clues on where the treasure might be found around.

Price: Special Order

Western Gem Hunters Atlas

~Cy Johnson and Son - 79 pgs

More info to come!

Price: $9.50

Where to find Arizona's Placer Gold

~Delos Toole - 141 pgs

If you are about to search for Arizona Gold, this book should be your starting point . Where to find Arizona's Placer Gold provides gold seeking treasure hunters a wealth of information accompanying the maps, readers will find clear written descriptions of proposed sites and what treasure hunters expect to find. Updated in 2007. Includes maps with directions.

Price: $22.95

Where to find Gold in California

~Delos Toole - 138 pgs

Reprinted in 2008. Contains maps with directions to the gold sites along with platinum, rare earth minerals, and exotic metals. Also contains information on areas open to the public throughout California along with what minerals can be found in each region.

Price: $22.95

Where to find Gold in Mother Lode

~James Klein - 179 pgs

Prospecting expert James Klein writes about finding gold in his favorite area, the Mother Lode region of California. From CA gold rush history to current times, this book will tell you where gold was, and can be found in the Mother Lode country.

Price: $9.95

Where to find Gold in Oregon

~Delos Toole - 146 pgs

MAPS with direction to the Gold - Platinum site and general rare-earth metal locations. Information deals with old mine dumps, how to prepare for exampled rare-earth mineral testing and extraction with ID verification. Search information with GPS moniter to the Lost Mine and Lost Treasure location. Accurate hand-drawn maps depicting the rich gold placer gravel areas.

Price: $22.95

Where to find Gold in Southern California

~James Klien - 108 pgs

There really is gold still to be found near the byways of Southern California! In fact, probably more is out there to be found by the determined prospector than any time in recent years.

Price: $9.95

Where to find Gold in the Desert

~James Klein - 135 pgs

Want to know where you have the best chance to find gold today? How about the desert? In fact, the deserts of America's Southwest are filled with gold...some of it occuring naturally and some of it hidden as part of treasure troves dating back to Indian times. James Klein, veteran prospector, miner and treasure hunter, knows those secrets. In this revised edition, James explains what to look for all over the deserts of the American Southwest.

Price: $9.95

Where to find Gold in the Northern CA

~James Klein - 153 pgs

The important role that Northern California played in the Gold Rush history is often overlooked. But significant quantities of gold were found and mined there and it's still there to be found - if you know its secrets...Gold is everywhere - it accumulates in particular kinds of areas under predictable conditions. Time and the forces of nature gather gold flakes and nuggets in hiding places that can be located by prospectors who know where to look and what to look for. James Klein, veteran prospector, miner and treasure hunter, knows those secrets and shares them with you in this book. Take a trip with Jim through some of the most beautiful gold bearing country you will ever see. Visit old mines and ghost towns and hear the tales of lost treasure. Learn about the techniques and equipment used by the old timers and today's modern gold seekers. Try your luck with a gold pan, dredge or metal detector. With Jim's help, you too may know the thrill of "showing color." This book features the known gold-bearing areas of Northern California - organized by county with maps, directions, tips on where to look, and the history and tales of each area. A technical glossary, equipment instructions and photos provide ease in your prospecting adventure. Learn how to stake a claim and what to do if you do strike gold. Where to Find Gold in Northern California is the essential prospecting book for all treasure hunters! The author, James Klein, is a popular gold prospecting author and has written other titles, such as Where to Find Gold in the Desert, Where to Find Gold in Southern California and How to Find Gold.

Price: $10.95

Where to find Yankee Placer Gold

~Delos Toole - 138 pgs

Contains maps with directions to the gold sites in Maine, Vermont, Connecticut, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts. Also contains information on areas open to the public throughout the Yankee States along with topaz, platinum, silver, and other rare earth minerals that can be found in each region listed.

Price: $19.95