Download or read book Collecting Agates and Jaspers for Beginners written by Stones Roger and published by BookRix. This book was released on 2023-02-01 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jasper is a beautiful stone, and the variation is enough to make any collector excited. When you’re diving into the world of rock collecting, they’re a great start. Agates come in a dazzling array of varieties, and they’re found in the collection of most rockhounds. They’re beautiful, readily found, and extremely tough. It makes them ideal for a variety of specimen types in addition to jewelry. For the beginning jasper and agates collector, there are a lot of questions. Fortunately, there are also easy answers! Walking riverbeds is the best way to find jasper nodules in an area. Riverbeds collect stones over time, and dry ones are a treasure trove. Once you begin to learn how stones collect in the area, you’ll be able to quickly find areas that are likely sources. In this guide, I will be teaching you what jasper and agates are, where you can find them, and even give you some tips to make your next collecting trip a huge success. You will also be getting some expert ideas on what to do with them once they’ve been found! ORDER YOUR COPY NOW

Download or read book Collecting Agates and Jaspers of North America written by Patti Polk and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-12-09 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Treasures of the Earth From the author of Collecting Rocks, Gems and Minerals and one of the leading agate collectors in the world, comes this comprehensive guide to collecting agates and jaspers, the most sought after types of collectible rocks on the market today. Designed with all beginners in mind, yet filled with valuable technical information for advanced enthusiasts, Collecting Agates and Jaspers helps rockhounds discover these treasures of North America. • The only book on agates and jaspers to offer values. • Featuring nearly 700 beautiful color pictures, descriptions and technical information, the book provides an easy-to-use, quick reference format perfect for home and field. • Organized by U.S. states and provinces in Canada and Mexico, with introductions pinpointing each area's best spots and what you can find there.

Download or read book Agate Hunting Made Easy written by James Magnuson and published by Adventure Publications. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides step-by-step instructions for finding and identifying Lake Superior Agates.

Download or read book Agate Hunting on the Oregon Coast written by M. J. Grover and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-03 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book takes a detailed look at the best places to search for agates along the Oregon Coast. The Oregon Coast spans 363 miles, all public land, and free for all to explore. Hidden amongst the sand and rocks are natural hidden treasures, but you have to know where to find them.This complete guide to 40 of the best agate hunting sites in Oregon holds nothing back. A beginner who has never visited Oregon will get as much from this text as an experienced beachcomber.Secret spots, safety guides, tips and tricks, dozens of color photos and detailed site maps will guide you through safe fun for everyone from the solo adventurer to the family looking to make some memories.

Download or read book Beach Stones written by Josie Iselin and published by Harry N. Abrams. This book was released on 2006-05-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This exquisite volume--at once a gorgeous art book and a nature guide--presents more than 200 exceptional stones from around the world and describes the fascinating natural processes that produced them. Art lovers and beachcombing spirits everywhere will cherish this gift book.

Download or read book Rare agates and coloured quartz written by Karl Schneider and published by J.H.Röll Verlag. This book was released on 2005 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Franconia's hidden treasures. A franconian geology discovery.

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Download or read book Rock Pickers Guide to Lake Superior s North Shore written by Mark Sparky Stensaas and published by Adventure Publications. This book was released on 2000-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book helps readers find and identify rocks on the north shore of Lake Superior.

Download or read book Rockhounding New Mexico written by Martin Freed and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-06-01 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than a third of New Mexico is public land that holds untold quantities of mineralogical treasure. With this book anyone can learn where to find unusual mineral displays, fossils, jasper, agate, petrified wood—not to mention more obsidian than one rockhound could possibly collect in a lifetime. The array and quality of such materials just waiting to be found in New Mexico are almost mind-boggling. Rockhounding New Mexico describes 140 of the state's best rockhound sites, covering popular and commercial sites as well as numerous little-known areas. This handy guide describes where and how to collect specimens, includes maps of each site as well as directions, and provides reliable recommendations for accommodations, camping, and other special attractions. It is, in short, a complete and outstanding introduction to the many sides of a fascinating hobby.

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Download or read book People Along the Sand written by Rachel King and published by . This book was released on 2021-11-09 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's 1967 in Kalapuya, a town on the Central Oregon Coast, and Jackson Ryder decides to build a second story onto his motel. His wife, Marilyn Ryder, doesn't want to take on more debt for an expansion. Their ongoing dispute prompts Marilyn to leave Jackson and stay with her friend Leah Tolman, a bakery owner and advocate for the Beach Bill, the legislation that will make all Oregon beaches public land. While Marilyn becomes an activist, her adolescent son Tim befriends an elderly lighthouse keeper Elliot Yager, who wants the public to stay off his beach. A novel about the pleasures and limits of solitude for five distinct and deeply human characters, centered around the passing of the Oregon Beach Bill-and published in time for the fifty-fifth anniversary of the historic legislation.

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Download or read book Dig and Discover Agates written by Nancy Dickmann and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2022-08 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You're rock hunting along a lakeshore with your eyes glued to the ground. A see-through rock lights up in the sunlight. Your heart races as you pick up the rock. It has beautiful bands of orange, cream, and brown. You've just found an agate! Find out how agates form, where they are found, and about some of the most amazing agate discoveries. Then learn how you can find and collect these striking rocks too!

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Download or read book Lake Michigan Rock Picker s Guide written by Bruce Mueller and published by Petoskey Co-Pub. This book was released on 2006 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bruce Mueller is the rock expert who brought you the very popular Complete Guide to Petoskey Stones. Bookstores all along Lake Michigan loved that book, but they also expressed many requests for a rock identification guide for Lake Michigan. Here it is. Mueller researched the entire shoreline of Lake Michigan to write this guide to Lake Michigan rocks. This is the perfect guidebook for any-one or any family who walks the beach and wonders, What is this?

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