ROCKHOUNDING BOOKS

Although known for its gold production, California is a virtual haven for rock and gem collectors. Explore the mineral-rich desert regions, comb the tide-washed beaches for jade, agate abalone, fissile whale bone, and prospect in the mountains for gold, copper, and other minerals and gems.

Rock hounding California describes 75 of the state's best rock hounding sites, and covers the popular and commercial sites as well as numerous little-known areas.

This handy guide describes how to collect specimens, includes maps and directions to each site, and lists rockbound clubs around the state. Rock hounding California offers a complete introduction to this many-faceted hobby and is an outstanding guide and source book.

Montana is a rock hounds dream, where inland seas once deposited fossils and minerals that the forces of geology have since laid bare. Rock Hounding Montana, formerly The Rock hound's Guide to Montana, can lead you to the Yellowstone River, where you can comb the gravel for Montana agate, an official state gem stone, or to the bad lands along Hell Creek, where paleontologists have found dinosaur remains. The book, by rockbound and educator Robert Feldman, contains information on the sapphire mines along the Missouri River near Helena, the limestone caves in the Pryor Mountains, as well as brief histories of mining at Butte and other locations. Even novices can find their way to crystals, garnets, geodes, and fossilized wood. You'll discover remote mountain streams where you can pan for gold or hunt for fossils.

Rock Hounding Montana, covers popular and commercial areas as well as many little known sites on public land. The book gives directions, includes a glossary, maps, and directions to museums, rock shops, and rock clubs. The beginner finds a complete introduction to this fascinating hobby and the expert discovers an excellent sourcebook in Rock Hounding Montana. Bring it along on your next geological journey.

As William A. Kapple reminds us in the introduction to Rock hounding Utah, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Accordingly, he gives us "just the facts" that rock hounds need to know to find their way to the best collecting site in the Beehive State and what mineral samples, rocks, and formations are to be found there. Still, most readers will find between the lines that Kappele can't quite squelch his enthusiasm for the grander of Utah's exposed formations, its canyon walls etched with fossils, and the spires and arches of the Needles District in Canyon lands National Park.

Kapple, who has traveled the western United States for 30 years in search of rocks, gems, and other lapidary pleasures, brings his experience to bear on Utah's 54.4 million acres, providing detailed descriptions of 86 sites. Each description includes concise information on the martial 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 can glean new insights into the obsidian of the Black Rock sites, jasper at Hell's Backbone sites, petrified wood at Bullfrog Turnoff, and fossils of sea lilies along the Wasatch Range.

Rock hounding Wyoming is an introduction to a fascinating treasure hunt for those seeking jade, agate, bloodstone, fossil, petrified wood, fluorite, or other precious stones. Although the rock hounding 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 hard rock miner, developed an interest in rocks at an early age. In Rock hounding Wyoming , Graham shares his enthusiasm for rock hounding 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 the 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.

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