Members can borrow any of these publications from the library for one month by selecting from the items brought meetings by the Librarian, or by contacting the Librarian in advance to request a specific title. Or you may make alternative arrangements with the Librarian.
DVDs
Tourmaline for Breakfast
– Jeff Scovil's talk on his travels through Madagascar at our December
2008 Holiday Party
Magazines
Club subscriptions and special
issues purchased
The Mineralogical Record – 2008, 2009, and continuing. Plus
various special issues of previous years.
Rocks & Minerals -- 2008, 2009, and continuing.
Extra Lapis #10 Opal - The Phenomenal Gemstone
Extra Lapis #12 Bolivia - The Height of Mineral Collecting
Extra Lapis #13 Smithsonite - Think Zinc!
MINERALup The Magazine for Discriminating European Collectors -
2006/2
Books
American Mineral
Treasures (New
April 2010)
Field Collecting Minerals in the Empire State: Stories of Modern Day North
Country Miners, Michael
Walter
Pennsylvania's Rainbow Underground, Kerry Matt *
The Mineral Kingdom, Paul E. Desautels (2 copies)
Rocks & Minerals, Paul E. Desautels (2 copies)
The Gem Kingdom, Paul E. Desautels
Mineral Recognition, Iris Vanders & Paul F. Kerr
The Collector's Encyclopedia of Rocks & Minerals, A.F.L.
Deeson, editor
Encyclopedia of Minerals, Roberts, Rapp, and Weber
Gemstone & Mineral Data Book, John Sinkankas
Gems, Minerals, Crystals & Ores: the Collector's Encyclopedia,
Richard M. Pearl
The World's Finest Minerals & Crystals, Peter Bancroft
Color Treasury of Crystals: Symmetry in the Mineral Kingdom,
Vincenzo De Michele
The Collector's Encyclopedia of Rocks & Minerals, ed. By
A.F.L. Deeson
Glossary of Mineral Species 1983, Michael Fleischer (spiral)
Dana's Textbook of Mineralogy, Edward Salisbury Dana rev. -
William E. Ford, 4th ed,
Crystals and Light: An Introduction to Optical Crystallography,
Elizabeth A. Wood, 2nd ed
Jade (Collectors' Blue Books), Louis Zara
The Art of the Lapidary, Francis J. Sperisen
Rocks and Minerals: A Guide for Collectors of the Eastern United States,
H.H. Nicolay & A.V. Stone
Secret Places: Scenic Treasure of Western New York & Southern Ontario,
Bruce Kershner
Rocks & Routes of the North Country New York, Bradford B.
VanDiver
10 ^9 (1 billion) Years: A guide to the Geology of Westchester
Co., NY. Thomas McGuire
Geology of NY: A Short Account. State Ed. Dept.
New Hampshire Mines & Mineral Localities, Philip Morrill
Colorado Gem Trails and Mineral Guide, Richard M. Pearl
Exhibiting: The Show Biz Aspect of the Hobby, EFMLS
Minerals of New York State, David E. Jensen
Pamphlets:
The World of Ward's
(1960's?)
Toronto's Geological Past, An Introduction. Ministry of Natural
Resources
New Mountains from Old Rocks: the Adirondacks - The Geology of the
Lake Placid Region, NYS Geo. Survey, Leaflet 23,
Continental Collisions & Ancient Volcanoes - The Geology of Southeastern
NY, Yngvar W. Isachsen, NYS Geo. Survey, Leaflet 24
Texas Rocks & Fossils, State Dept. of Highways & Public
Transportation
The Minerals of Tsumeb, Otavi District, South West Africa (typed
list & map)