Colorado Rockhounding: A Guide to Minerals, Gemstones, and Fossils

by Stephen M. Voynick

Overview

Colorado Rockhounding is a complete guide to the state's rich and varied mineral, gemstone, and fossil sources. In Colorado, rockhounds may pick agate and petrified wood from the vast Great Plains, follow dinosaur tracks on hogback ridges, pan gold in mountain streams, hunt gemstones on towering peaks, and search for metal sulfide minerals in historic mining districts.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780878422920
Publisher:	Mountain Press
Publication date:	07/28/1996
Series:	Rock Collecting
Edition description:	REV
Pages:	392
Sales rank:	1,060,006
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.90(d)
Age Range:	9 Years

About the Author

Stephen M. Voynick has worked as an advertising, industrial, and technical photographer; a marine salvage diver in the Caribbean and South America; and a hardrock miner in Colorado, Wyoming, and Arizona. Since 1982 he has worked as a full-time freelance writer.