RHODE ISLAND MINERAL HUNTERS LIBRARY
These books and pamphlets are free to use for members of the club. If there is an item
that you would like to read, please E-mail Joel Russo at russojoel@gmail.com or call (401) 9423394 at least 2 days before the monthly meeting. For books, please include the book code and
title. For magazines, the date and title, and for videos, the title. All material borrowed will be
handed out at the meeting and must be returned at the following monthly meeting. If unable
to attend the following meeting please make an effort to have someone return it for you.
Many of our books are quite old, so we would love to have newer material. Anyone
wishing to donate books to the library can either bring them to one of the meetings or contact
Joel or another board member and somehow we will get them.
Joel also has the club’s AO Series Spencer 40 Microscope. This is a low-powered
microscope that is excellent for viewing micros. Same rules apply for borrowing the
microscope
ROCKS & MINERALS & GEMS
CODE
TITLE
AUTHOR/PUBLISHER
nd
RM010 Rocks and Rock Minerals – 2 rev. - 1935
Louis V. Pirsson
RM020 Minerals of New York State – 1978
David e. Jensen
RM030 Gems, Granites and Gravels – knowing and using
R. V. Dietrich / Brian J. Skinner
rocks and minerals - 1990
RM040 The Concise Illustrated Book of Rocks & Minerals Richard Moody
- 1990
RM050 Common Rocks and Minerals of Pennsylvania –
Comm. of Pa. Dept of Internal Affairs
1968 (small paperback)
RM060 Maine Geographic Gems and Minerals – 1983
Jane C. Perham
(small paperback)
RM070 Successful Mineral Collecting and Prospecting
Richard M. Pearl
RM080 We Walk on Jewels Treasure hunting in Maine Jean Blakemore
1976
RM090 Collector’s Guide to Maine Mineral Localities-1988 Thompson, Joyner, Woodman, King
RM100 Popular Mechanics – Rocks, Minerals, Gems,
D. Dinwiddie & R. P. MacFall
Fossils - 1978
RM110 Rocks & Minerals in color Richard Fortey
RM120 Minerals, Rocks, and Gemstones - 1967
Rudolf Borner
RM130 Golden Guide – Rocks and Minerals
Herbert S. Zim, Paul R. Shaffer
RM140 Smithsonian Treasury – Minerals and Gems – 1991 John Sampson White
RM150 The Mineral Kingdom - 1968
Paul E.Desautels, Supervisor, Div. of
Mineralogy, Smithsonian Institute
RM160 Glossary of Mineral Species – 1983
Michael Fleischer
RM170 Glossary of Mineral Species – 1986
Michael Fleischer
RM180 The World of Minerals – 1971
Vincenzo De Michele
RM190 Gems and Gemology, Handbook of – 1961
Charles J. Parsons, Edward J. Soukup
RM200 The Book of Agates - 1963
Lelande Quick
RM210
RM220
RM230
RM235
RM240
The Real Book about GOLD - 1954
The Evolution of the Igneous Rocks – 1956
The Natural History of Igneous Rocks – 1909
The Earth of Ours Past and Present – 1969
Wyoming Jade ,A Pioneer Hunter’s Story – 1980
(3 copies)
CODE
TITLE
RM250 Oxford County, Me Mineral and Gem Association 1988
RM260 Rockhounding in Eastern NY State and Nearby
New England – 1990-91
RM270 This is New England – 1986 (stories of NE gem
discoveries)
Coast to Coast Gem Atlas - 1987
RM280
RM290 Gems and Jewelry – 1964
RM300 Gem Cutter’s Guide – A Valuable manual on
Grinding, Sawing, Polishing, Lapping
Harold Coy
N. L. Bowen
Alfred Harker
Caleb Wroe Wolfe
Russell P. MacFall
AUTHOR/PUBLISHER
Members of the Association
Dan and Carol Zabriskie
Various authors
H. Cyril Johnson and Robert N. Johnson
Ned Seidler
PF060
PALEONTOLOGY / FOSSILS
TITLE
AUTHOR/PUBLISHER
Fossil Men development of human paleontology Marcellin Boule and Henri V. Valois
1957
Fossils in America nature, origin, ID, and
Jay Ellis Ransom
classification – guide to collecting sites - 1964
Catalog of the Type Specimens of Invertebrate
Louis R. Purnell
Fossils – 1968
Fossils – 481 illustrations in color - 1962
Frank H. T. Rhodes
The Dinosaurs – fantastic new view of a lost era William Stout
1981
Search for the Past – an intro. to paleontology-1960 James R. Beerbower
CODE
GC010
GC020
GC030
GC040
GC050
GC060
GC070
GC080
GC090
GC100
GEOLOGY, CHEMISTRY, SCIENCE
TITLE
AUTHOR/PUBLISHER
Outlines of Geology – 1957
Longwell, Knopf, Flint, Schuchert, Dunbar
Introduction to Geology – 1935
E. B. Branson, W. A. Tarr
Geology: the paradox of earth and man Keith Young
Structural Geology – 1942
Marland P. Billings
Environmental Geology – 1970
Peter F. Flawn
Environmental Geology – 1992
Carla W. Montgomery
Source Book in Geology 1900-1950 – 1967
Kirtley F. Mather
An Introduction to Geology – 1921
W. B. Scott
Geology of Petroleum – 1931
William Harvey Emmons
Record of the Rocks – the geological story of
Horace G. Richards
CODE
PF010
PF020
PF030
PF040
PF050
GC110
GC120
GC130
GC140
GC150
GC160
GC170
GC180
GC190
GC200
GC210
GC220
GC230
GC240
GC245
GC250
GC260
GC270
GC280
GC290
GC300
eastern North America - 1953
Stories in Stone – telling of some of the
wonderlands of Western America and some of the
curious incidents in the History of Geology - 1926
Earth and Life Through Time - 1985
Continents in Collision
Geology (small paperback) – 1972
Hiking America’s Geology Symposium on Rock Mechanics - vol 51, no. 3 –
1956 quarterly of the Colorado school of mines
(paperback)
The Geology of New Hampshire – part 1, surficial
geology – 1958 (paperback)
Mica Deposits of the southeastern Piedmont, Part 1
– Geological survey (paperback)
Field Guide to the Geology of the Cape Cod
National Seashore – 1972 (paperback)
Bibliography of the Geology of Rhode Island –
1950 (small paperback)
Land Forms – simple intro and guide to land forms
- 1971
Geology – outline of the principles of physical and
historical geology
Biography of the Earth – 1948
Fundamentals of Earth Science – 1960
Fundamentals of Earth Science – 1947
Physical Science a study of matter and energy-1967
Basic Exploration Geophysics – 1988
Identification and Qualitative Chemical Analysis of
Minerals – 1946
Chemical Principles teaching General Chem. - 1977
Doubleday Pictorial library of Science – Chemistry
Physics Astronomy
Earthquakes and Volcanoes - 1979
Willis T. Lee
Steven M. Stanley
Russell Miller
Frank H. T. Rhodes
Toni Eugene, Ron Fisher
Various contributors
J. W. Goldthwait, L. Goldthwait, R. P.
Goldthwait
Richard H. Jahns, Wallace R. Griffiths, and
E. Wm. Heinrich
John J. Fisher
George F. Adams and Jerome Wyckoff
Richard M. Field
George Gamow
Henry D. Thompson
Henry D. Thompson
Verne H. Booth
Edwin S. Robinson and Cahit Coruh
O. C. Smith
William Masterton and Emil Slowinski
Bronowski, Barry, Fisher, Huxley
Bruce A. Bolt
MISCELLANEOUS
The Amateur’s Guide to Caves and Caving - 1973
How Many People Can the Earth Support? – 1995
Gift from the Sea - 1957
Seashores – a guide to animals and plants along the
seashore. - 1955
Sea and Seashore, The observer’s book of - 1973
David R. McClurg
Joel E. Cohen
Anne Morrow Lindebergh
Herbert S. Zim and Lester Ingle
I. O. Evans
VHS VIDEOS
Arthur Kingsbury: A Case of Falsified British Mineral Localities – Alan Hart
Graphite: Revealing its hidden Beauty – Dr. John A. Jaszczak
What’s New in Minerals – Jeff Scovil
Minerals of the Foote Mine – Jason Smith
MAGAZINES
LAPIDARY JOURNAL
11/80 Brazilian agate
02/85 Lapis lazuli & opal eagle
03/85 Crown of Napoleon
04/85 39th annual buyers’ guide
06/85 “The Hare” Brazilian agate
07/85 Katchinas: spirits cast in silver
08/85 Emerald – The rarest Beryl
11/85 Special faceting issue
04/86 40th annual buyers’ guide,
great field trip vacations
09/88 Mainly on the plane (fine faceting)
07/90 Reflected radiance
05/92 Travel rough and ready
06/92 Iridescent landscapes of opal
08/92 Crystal that leapt to life (carved beryl frog)
11/92 Dinosaur discovery fuels fossil controversy
Lapidary arts at Lizzardo
ROCKS & MINERALS
07-08/87 Crystal Mt minerals, Larimer
County, CO
Berkeley Quarry, Cross, SC
Mineral Photography
07-08/88 Colorado Minerals
Illinois Fossils
Field Museum
09-10/88 American Golden Topaz
Sunnyside Mine
Lyman Museum, Hilo, Hawaii
01-02/89 Galena
Dixie Mine, Virginia
Tully Monster
03-04/90 Camp Bird Mine, Colorado’s
golden bonanza
Pseudofossils
Displaying Microminerals
THE MINERALOGICAL RECORD
01-02/82
Boltsbum mine, Weardale, Eng.; The Virgem da Lapa pegmatites; Pink octahedral fluorite
from Peru; The Sorbonne collection; Overview of arsenate minerals from the Sterling Mine
03-04/84
Minerals of Italian Mt area, CO; Mineral occurrences Western Canada; Minerals of
Puu o Ehu quarry, Hawaii; Kornerupine & sapphirine crystals Central Australia; Libethenite
zone, Burra Mine, South Australia
11-12/83
Chuquicamata and the Nitrate Pampa; University of Delaware Mineral Museum
01-02/85
TOPAZ edition: Mineralogy, Geology,& occurances of topaz; Pink topaz from Thomas
Range, Juab Count, Utah; FM-TGMS-MSA Symposium on topaz
01-02/86
01-02/87
SILVER edition: German mining; Kongsberg, Norway localities, Upper Michigan
occurrences; Silver Islet Mine, Ontario; Chihuahua, Mexico localities
GOLD edition: Australia; California; Colorado; Appalachia; England; Museums; Recent
Discoveries
ARIZONA HIGHWAYS
11/56
Valley National Bank financing mining; Photographing minerals
11/74
Turquoise
02/75
Green minerals; Copper
01/77
Colorado river; Mojave County
08/77
Bisbee mining; Arizona waters
03/78
Arizona’s national monuments
04/78
Jewels of the desert (flowers); Artistry of Pierre Touraine (gemology)
01/79
Quartzite Pow Wow Rock & Mineral show; Nature photography
04/80
Prescott County
06/80
Gone Fishin’ Arizona Style
07/80
Gold
08/80
Meandering in Summer
09/80
Hopi Tricentennial
03/81
Arizona Life Styles
04/81
Capturing the Grand Canyon
05/81
Reflections on Sedona
07/81
Route 66
09/81
The Wild West – reenacted; Monument Valley
02/83
Petrified Forest National Park; Ancient Land yields 200 –Miilion-Year-old secrets
CARNEGIE MAGAZINE
09/80
Hillman Hall of Minerals & Gems opens at Carnegie Museum of Natural History
CHASING RAINBOWS (2002) Field collecting diaries of New Hampshire mineralogist Peter Samuelson
TERRA (Spring 1978) Mark C Bandy collection; portfolio of Brazilian gem crystals; Hixon gem
collection; Gold Rush
VIRGINIA CITY and the SILVER REGION of the COMSTOCK LODE by Douglas McDonald
History of mining in and around Virginia City, Nevada
OKLAHOMA IMAGE
The Czechs in Oklahoma
The Germans from Russia in Oklahoma
The Italians in Oklahoma
The Mexicans in Oklahoma
The Poles in Oklahoma