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My daughter has loved collecting rocks since she could pick them up. She is 6 and for her it was perfect. This is her first rock book and we are very pleased. It is well layed out and seems very thourough.
Nice pictures. Doesn't have all common rocks in it, for example no Tiger's Eye.
I have maybe three or four rocks I have found that look as good as the photos in the book. This book will keep you going back to those mountains and deserts and beaches and streams and and and need I continue. My wife and I dearly love this book. That is if they can catch their breath after seeing the Photo's. Such is life. Yes for the money I spend on Gas and tires and places to sleep and eat.I could just buy some of these rocks from a rock dealer. A chunk of gold the size of a brick 2X4X8 solid 24kt. Paint it white.
I keep looking for even more rocks just to find them. Which would you rather have. I know that is not what old folks that are in there late fifty's are supposed to do is it. Even if you are blind you could get someone else to tell you just how beautiful the photos in this book are.
"Yes more than 75% of the (3)three Gram gold nuggets have yet to be found, They are still out there waiting for someone to walk along a stream and see them laying there." The day was bright and sunny with not a cloud in the sky. Still if you have the chance even at 1% of finding a specimen that is even close to the photo in beauty it will be worth ten times what you have paid for this book. If you are not blind this is the book for you. Actually I have three that are better than and one that is as good as the photo's in the book. Still it is as I have heard and known my whole life. We have sat side by side and read and looked at the photos many times now.
The only sounds were of the insect's buzzing in the grasslands and an eagle calling from a spiral in the blue sky of a Rocky Mountain morning. No 99% of the time you will not find the same item in the outdoors that you see in the book. It is not the having it is the finding. dray Or a tiny little 3 gram nugget that you found on the edge of a stream on a high mountain meadow.
They're all a home run in my book. Great book. As an amateur rock hound, this book gives me lots of pretty pictures to look at. I love this publisher. I have most of DK's books in every subject that interests me.
Good Rock Hound reference book. References about all of the named materials that one would like to look up.Presents loads of photographs of raw material as well as finished gemstones and cabochons.
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