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THE ART OF GEM CUTTING. by Dr. H.C Dake.
Including cabochons, faceting, spheres, tumbling, and special techniques: sawing, grinding, sanding, dopping, and polishing are explained along with the tools and machines to use. Tells how to cut and facet several gems including zircon, topaz, amethyst, sphalerite. Gives special lapidary techniques of cutting spheres and cameos. Photographs, drawings, 96 pages.
ISBN: None. 1963. Order #: GEMG1097 paper$3.00.

 

 

ARTISTRY IN CABOCHONS. by Robert W. Ferguson.
For the gem cutter who wants to extend his/her art--a fascinating array of unique designs that can be cut on standard equipment. Presents design patterns that can be transferred to your material to make designs beyond the standard oval, round, square, rectangular, and heart shapes and into new shapes of animals, birds, and fish; plant leaves, clouds, bells, and more. Text gives tips on how to produce such creations. Illustrated with drawings and photographs, 64 pages.
ISBN: 910652-21-X. 1976. Order #: GEMG0526 paper$4.95.

 

CACHE HUNTING I. Carson.
Tells you what is needed and how to start and go about hunting for caches; why people hoard as a clue to where they hide. 112 pages.
ISBN: 0-941620-32-8. CARS2208 paper$7.95.

 

 

 

COINSHOOTING II: Digging Deeper Coins. Carson.
Tips for looking harder to find obscure or looked-over coins from open lands to decaying houses. 96 pages.
ISBN: 0-941620-17-4. Order #: CARS2206 paper$7.95.

 

 

 

COINSHOOTING: How and Where to do it. Carson.
Using a metal detector effectively; search patterns, sites to shoot and where to concentrate effort. Photos, 64 pages.
ISBN: 0-941620-30-1. Order #: CARS2209 paper$6.95.

 

 

 

#COINSHOOTING& TREASURE HUNTING LOG.
Daily log to record localities searched, conditions encountered, valuables recovered.
ISBN: None. CARS4035 paper$5.95.

COLORADO GOLD: from the Pike's Peak Rush to the present. Stephen M. Voynick.
"In Colorado Gold, Stephen Voynick has created a masterpiece intermingling gold rushes, booms, and busts, with geology and mining technologies, legends, and lore." —True West.
The early miners who panned for gold in 1858 on the banks of Cherry Creek, where Denver now stands, could not have known how profoundly that precious metal would soon affect the emerging state of Colorado. Their boom soon turned to bust. But subsequent discoveries at Cripple Creek and other places yielded more than enough "color" to coat the dome on Colorado's capitol.
Colorado Gold is the story of gold--concealed within the Rockies for ages, affecting the destinies of people and landscapes today. It is a historical account that assesses our enduring, romantic drive to extract this unusually malleable and heavy metal from the earth. Topics include both historic and modern booms and busts, gold's intrinsic value, mining technologies past and present, legends and lore, and a look at tomorrow's gold. 224 6x9.
ISBN: 0-87842-455-5. Order #: MOPR1157 paper$14.00.

DIVING AND DIGGING FOR GOLD. by Hill.
Here is a guide for anyone interested in knowing where and how to find gold, and what equipment to use. Where and how to find, equipment to use in above- and below-water mining, where to sell. Aimed at the beginning or part time prospector, the book contains lists of equipment for gold trips, for diving and mining, do's and don't for the field trippers, and hints from old time prospectors and professionals. The information about diving for gold is particularly interesting. 6 photos, 73 drawings, 2 maps, 47p. 48 pages.
ISBN: 978-0-87961-005-0. Order #: NAGR0971 paper$7.95.

 

FACET CUTTER'S HANDBOOK. by Edward J. Soukup.
Thorough presentation of the technique of creating facets (planar surfaces) on gem material. Introduction explains the process for those new to faceting, using the terms of this endeavor. Specific instructions for cutting a variety of facets are given: triangle step cut, keystone step cut, pentagon cut, emerald cut, oblong hexagon cut, and ten more. For each type of cut , directions are given on procedure with details of the angles to be created, further explained with charts and tables. Potential errors in making the cuts are pointed out so readers can avoid them. (Pages 25 and 26 did not print on this copy, so two cuts--Calibre and French--are missing.) Photographs, diagrams, tables, 64 pages, index.
ISBN: None. 1962. Order #: GEMG1098 paper$2.50.

 

#GEM TRAILS OF CALIFORNIA. by Mitchell.
Presents 93 gem locations throughout the state. Photos, maps 159 pages.
ISBN: 0-935182-22-5. Order #: GEMG7589 paper$7.95.

GEMS OF WORLD OCEANS: a guide to world sea shell collecting. by A. Gordon Melvin.
Advantages of having a shell collection; how and where to look for shells on the beach, at the low tide mark, by wading, and in deep water, even by fishermen. How to prepare a shell for a collection. How shells have been regarded in history for their qualities. How to identify shells so you can learn more about their origins, distribution, and lifeways. Relative values of shells are given, and scientific names and practical names are discussed and included. Color plates, 96 pages.
ISBN: None. 1964. Order #: NAGR1407 paper$4.95.

 

THE GOLD HEX. Marquiss.
Stories of looking for lost mines and treasures, mostly in the desert. Photos, 146 pages.
ISBN: 0-941620-20-4. Order #: CARS2212paper$6.95.

 

 

 

THE GOLD HUSTLERS. by Lewis Green.
Showcases the history of placer mining in the Klondike from gold discovery in 198 to the shutting down of the last gold dredge in 1966. Two stories emerge--that of the promoters and stock manipulators and that of  the engineers who attempted to build profitable mining operations. There was scheming for control of the Yukon mines. Photos, 355 pages, index.
ISBN: 0-88240-0

 

 

HANDBOOK OF GEMSTONE CARVING. by Ed and Leola Wertz.
A complete guide to the materials, equipment and techniques for carving gemstones. Reviews the carving of gemstones, tells of gemstones to carve and subjects to carve, equipment and tools and how to use them, and carving forms and finishes. Specific instructions are given to carve a leaf, carving in the round, and portraits. Photographs, 478 pages.
ISBN: 0-9106552-06-6. 1968. Order #: GEMG05015 paper$2.50.

 

 

HOW TO USE DIAMOND ABRASIVES TO CUT GEMSTOES. Riggle.
Cutting cabochons and small flats. Illustrated, 32 large-format pages.
ISBN: 0-910652-30-9. 1978. Order #: GEMG0530 paper$3.95.

HUNTING DIAMONDS IN CALIFORNIA. by Mary Hill. Where to hunt for these gems, how to identify them, locate your claim, and cut them. Characteristics of diamonds, world occurrences, and sites in California where they have been found, many in the Mother Lode of the Sierra in the process of hydraulic mining where banks of ancient river gravels are washed away, leaving their heavier components. Others have been found in beach sands but hone where they originally formed. Illustrated, 80 pages, extensive bibliography.
Inventory = 4; otherwise out of print. ISBN: 0-911010-96-3. Order #: NAGR5717 paper$5.95.

 

 

THE MALPAIS GOLD. Carson.
Novel of how one man was intrigued by a chance-find to become a treasure addict. The gold sought was first discovered in New Mexico in 1864, then most of its discoverers were killed by Indians and the two remaining hid what they had, losing track of where and setting off intrigue to find the location ever since. Covers scuffed. 148 pages. 
ISBN: 0-941620-09-3. 1978. CARS0272 paper$6.95.

 

 

NEVADA-UTAH GEM ATLAS. by Robert Neil Johnson.
Shows what to find, and where, in these two mineral-rich states. 20 double-page maps show localities where gems, fossils, petrified wood, various minerals, and gold have been found. Locates mining districts and includes rock shops. Shown are places for fossil wood, turquoise, pyrites, agates, apache tears, and more. Photographs, maps, 48 pages.
ISBN: None. 1983. Order #:CYJO0640 paper$4.95.

 

 

THE ROCKHOUND'S GUIDE TO MONTANA. by Robert Ferldman.
Covers 57 popular and commercial rockhound sites as well as little-known areas, many on public land. Gives directions with maps to sites and museums, rock shops, and rock clubs. Discover where even beginning rockhounders can find gold, sapphires, agates,crystals, fossils, garnets, geodes, fossilized woods. And there are mountain streams for gold panning---dozens of fossil sites throughout the state. Localities covered include fossils near Miles City,"diamonds"north of Lewiston, Billings Area, Big Horn Canyon, Cooke City, Gallatin Petrified Forest, Helen Area Sapphire mines, Virginia City, quartz crystals near LoLo Hot Springs. Maps, photographs, glossary, 156 pages.
ISBN: 0-934318-46-8. 1985. Order#: FALC1079 paper$12.95.

 

ROCKY MOUNTAIN GOLD 'N GEM ATLAS. by Bob and Cy Johnson.
28 maps of Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, and British Columbia show localities where gems, fossils, petrified wood, various minerals, and gold have been found. Locates mining districts and includes rock shops. Shown are places for fossil squid, barite roses, agates, turquoise, geodes, and more.
ISBN: None. 1984. Order#: CYJO1087 paper$2.50.

 

 

ROCK SCULPTURE: the joy of stone carving for beginners. by Violet Stage.
Basic equipment needed; anatomy of the subjects to be carved; details of hardness, sizes, and shapes of carving stones such as alabaster, ivory, jade, turquoise, amber, opal, soapstone, onyx. Photographs and drawings, 46 pages.
ISBN: 0-87961-167-7. Order #: NAGR9414 paper$7.95.

 

 

TREASURE IN THE DUST: enduring gold and silver's century of divorce. by Becky Boudway.
Aspects of history of early mining activities in California and Nevada, touching upon the lives of miners, financers, geologists, engineers and senators involved in development of the resources there. 188 pages, photographs.
ISBN: 0-914330-86-1. Order #: AMWE4681cloth$22.50.

 

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HYDRAULIC GOLD-MINING IN CALIFORNIA, 1883. by Taliesin Evans.
By the 1870s and 1880s in the California gold country, the gold that had been easy to pick up already had been. But there was lots more, buried in the earth. A massive plumbing system was built to harness water as a tool to wash the earth away and leave a residue of heavy metals, especially gold. Meanwhile, though, mud and gravel released in the process washed downstream to inundate farms and homes. Dwellers there objected, and in court they effectively stopped the hydraulic mining--one of the earliest environmental court actions. But when our author was there, his interest was describing a vital western industry. And the mines can still be seen--Interstate Highway 80 runs right through one at Gold Run, and another is the Malakoff Diggins State Historical Park, where you can not only see the washed banks but also some of the nozzles and mining equipment used to get the gold out. Reprinted from 1883. Illustrations are from the original article and other period sources. See sample pages, illustrations.
.  ISBN-10: 0-89646-052-5. ISBN-13: 978-0-89646-052-2. 16 pages.  Order #: VIST0052 paper $3.95.

 

A MINER'S SUNDAY, 1849.by Charles B. Gillespie.
This story is set in Coloma, the California gold discovery site of 1848. But it might have happened at any of the gold-rush sites of the West--Virginia City, Cripple Creek, the Klondike--and it probably did, but only on Sunday. Town was a lively place the one day the mines were shut down, with a mix of nationalities engaging in gambling, auctions, horse-racing, shopping for clothes and supplies, eating, drinking, brawling, and general tom-foolery as you might expect from a bunch of young men from all over the world who were off to a get-rich adventure. Illustrations are from early sources, including the original article of 1891, Frederic Remington, and the Crocker Art Museum. 16 pages. See sample pages, illustrations.
. ISBN-10: 0-89646-005-3. ISBN-13: 978-0-89646-005-8. 1981. Order #: VIST0005 paper$3.95.

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