Emerald and aquamarine have been known and cherished since Antiquity, but it is only in the last few centuries that science has realized that these two coveted gems are actually different varieties of the same mineral -- Beryl. Number 7 in the popular extraLapis English mineralogy monograph series, "Beryl: And Its Color Varieties" surveys the mineralogy and localities of this popular gemstone.

Beryl and Its Color Varieties: Aquamarine, Heliodor, Morganite, Goshenite, Emerald and Red Beryl

JOHN BRADSHAW

Guanghua. LIU

Federico Pezzotta

Rupert Hochleitner

Alfredo Petrov

Bruce Cairncross

Luiz Menezes

Dmitriy Belakovskiy

Peter Lyckberg

Mark Jacobson

Jesse Fisher

Lee Groat

Dermot Henry

Lee Van Iderstine

Bruce Jarnot

Tony Potucek

Stefan Weiss

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The acclaimed photography of Jeff Scovil (70 plates) and Steve Smale (30 plates) capture the presence of masterpieces from one of the world's finest private collections--that of celebrated mathematician Steve Smale and his wife Clara. Captions and commentary by Smale himself provide context for these important pieces and insight into the mineral specimen trade.

The Smale Collection: Beauty in Natural Crystals

Stephen Smale

With its sharp vivid color zones, interesting crystal habits, and fabulous associations, fluorite is a highly collectable mineral species. Number 9 in Lithographie's popular monograph series, "Fluorite: Collector s Choice" brings together an international panel of experts and trademark illustrations to create a truly outstanding addition to any collector's library.

Fluorite: The Collector's Choice

CONTRIBUTING

Precious opal is a rainbow made tangible. Its spectral blaze of color moves, changes, intensifies, fades, or disappears with the slightest change in perspective. Opal's intriguing play of color and unique atomic arrangement have made it the subject of scientific probing from early optics in the 1850s to high tech photonics today. Equally challenging has been discovering opal's place in history. Its beauty begs to be enshrined in myth and legend when facts are as scarce as the stone itself. Opal, both precious and common, is found in disparate environments fro the unbearable heat of the Australian outback to the higher elevations of the Canadian Rockies, from a centuries-old site in Slovakia to a number of little known places in the American west. An unique assortment of characters collect and mine this equally individual stone, of which no two are exactly alike. Thus blazing gem of chemical simplicity--just silica and water--has ignited a complexity of human emotions: a compulsion to mine, the desire to wear, an urge to fashion, the challenge to imitate, a need to possess. A natural, wearable stone with magical depth, movement, and color, opal is a truly phenomenal gemstone.

Opal: The Phenomenal Gemstone

Jack Townsend

michael-o-donoghue

Si & Ann Frazier

Janet & Paul Clifford

Jürgen Schütz

Andrew Cody

Wilson Cooper

Bob Farrar

Catherine Gaber

Barry Neville

Max Weibel

Klaus Eberhard Wild

Elizabeth T. Smith

Alex Ritchie

Günther Neumeier & others

More than 40 top mineral localities are featured in this Hardcover book, American Mineral Treasures. Released to commemorate the historic exhibits at the 2008 Tucson Gem and Mineral Show.

American Mineral Treasures - Leather Bound, Full Grain Pigskin

Various, Authors

Populations in both eastern and western cultures have been mining, trading, and carving garnets for millennia. Named for its likeness to the flesh and seeds of the pomegranate (Latin granatus), garnet is most commonly thought of as a red gemstone, but it actually occurs in all colors of the spectrum. In fact, garnet is a complex group of fifteen separate mineral species, which are sometimes hard to differentiate visually and more often than not occur together in the same specimen. Six of these species almandine, andradite, grossular, pyrope, spessartine, and uvarovite are regularly featured in mineral cabinets and jewelry. Garnets are also valued for much more than their aesthetics: they are important rock-forming minerals enhancing our understanding of geologic events; they are commercially valuable as abrasives; they are part of an indicator mineral suite used by geologists to locate diamond deposits; and they are great crystallographic examples with their textbook-perfect dodecahedral shapes. Yet even with this abundance, truly fine garnet specimens and large gemstones are surprisingly difficult to find.

Garnet: Great Balls of Fire

Lothar Ackermann

Marco Amabili

Marc B. Auguste

Russell Behnke

Bill Dameron

James Eason

Thomas Fehr

Jaroslav Hyrsl

Jirí Kourimský

Pete Modreski

Paul Pohwat

Francesco Spertini

Ingrid S. Weber

Stephan Wolfsried

Dudley Blauwet

John I. Koivula

Mickey Gunter

From its mineralogy to its landscape to its personalities, Bolivia is an enigmatic place where anything can and does happen. For centuries, Bolivia's mines and minerals have influenced its history, attracting conquerors, inciting wars and unrest, and making a few men obscenely rich. Bolivia is an impoverished country, which hosts rich resources. It is home to some of the world's most inhospitable climes, which are populated by a warm and colorful people. The richness of this land of extremes transcends material wealth, proving irresistible to a cadre of artists, outlaws, adventurers, scientists, and mineral collectors. Welcome to Bolivia, the height of mineral collecting!

Bolivia: The Height of Mineral Collecting

Carol Smith

Terry, Wallace

bill-smith

Robert B. Cook

Rock Currier

Anthony R. Kampf

Suzanne Lievetrau

Lauren Megaw

extraLapis No. 13 showcasing Smithsonite and its history, geology, localities, pseudomorphs, associations, gemology, cleaning, mineralogy, tsumeb, color, metallurgy and crystallography.

Smithsonite: Think Zinc! (English and Telugu Edition)

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Bill Birch

Book by Rock Currier, Dawn Minette, James Minette, Gloria Staebler, Paul Pohwat

The Jim and Dawn Minette Collection

Dawn Minette

James Minette

Gloria Staebler

The spectacular landscapes of the San Juan Mountains in southwestern Colorado are graphic evidence of the violent geology that concentrated a wealth of minerals in the triangle loosely defined by the picturesque mining towns of Telluride, Silverton and Ouray. An ancient hunting ground of indigenous peoples, these rugged high peaks concealed gold and silver discovered by westerners only in the last 150 years. These discoveries spurred mining booms and engineering feats as man worked to penetrate the ore- and crystal-laden cliffs and peaks. Modern visitors to the San Juans still collect minerals in the many prospects and trek the highways and byways that were first carved into the mountains by the pioneers. The mining history and stunning scenery of the San Juans is impossible to ignore, as are the Mountains of Minerals that make them so.

The San Juan Triangle of Colorado: Mountains of Minerals

Duane A. Smith

David W. Bunk

Daniel Kile

Terry C. Wallace

Don Earnest

Gary McWilliams

Allan Young

Robert Stoufer

Tom Rosemeyer

Barbara Muntyan

Virgil Lueth

Robert W. Eveleth

Jack A. Murphy

Kaitlin Stoufer

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