Rhode Island Mineral Hunters Library

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 or call (401) 942-3394 at least 2 days before the monthly meeting. Please include the book code and title. All books 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

ROCKS & MINERALS & GEMS

CODE / TITLE / AUTHOR/PUBLISHER
RM010 / Rocks and Rock Minerals – 2nd rev. - 1935 / Louis V. Pirsson
RM020 / Minerals of New York State – 1978 / David e. Jensen
RM030 / Gems, Granites and Gravels – knowing and using rocks and minerals - 1990 / R. V. Dietrich / Brian J. Skinner
RM040 / The Concise Illustrated Book of Rocks & Minerals - 1990 / Richard Moody
RM050 / Common Rocks and Minerals of Pennsylvania – 1968 (small paperback) / Comm. of Pa. Dept of Internal Affairs
RM060 / Maine Geographic Gems and Minerals – 1983 (small paperback) / Jane C. Perham
RM070 / Successful Mineral Collecting and Prospecting / Richard M. Pearl
RM080 / We Walk on Jewels Treasure hunting in Maine - 1976 / Jean Blakemore
RM090 / Collector’s Guide to Maine Mineral Localities-1988 / Thompson, Joyner, Woodman, King
RM100 / Popular Mechanics – Rocks, Minerals, Gems, Fossils - 1978 / D. Dinwiddie & R. P. MacFall
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 / The Real Book about GOLD - 1954 / Harold Coy
RM220 / The Evolution of the Igneous Rocks – 1956 / N. L. Bowen
RM230 / The Natural History of Igneous Rocks – 1909 / Alfred Harker
RM240 / Wyoming Jade ,A Pioneer Hunter’s Story – 1980 (3 copies) / Russell P. MacFall
CODE / TITLE / AUTHOR/PUBLISHER
RM250 / Oxford County, Me Mineral and Gem Association - 1988 / Members of the Association
RM260 / Rockhounding in Eastern NY State and Nearby New England – 1990-91 / Dan and Carol Zabriskie
RM270 / This is New England – 1986 (stories of NE gem discoveries) / Various authors
RM280 / Coast to Coast Gem Atlas - 1987 / H. Cyril Johnson and Robert N. Johnson
RM290 / Gems and Jewelry – 1964 / Ned Seidler
RM300 / Gem Cutter’s Guide – A Valuable manual on Grinding, Sawing, Polishing, Lapping

PALEONTOLOGY / FOSSILS

CODE / TITLE / AUTHOR/PUBLISHER
PF010 / Fossil Men development of human paleontology - 1957 / Marcellin Boule and Henri V. Valois
PF020 / Fossils in America nature, origin, ID, and classification – guide to collecting sites - 1964 / Jay Ellis Ransom
PF030 / Catalog of the Type Specimens of Invertebrate Fossils – 1968 / Louis R. Purnell
PF040 / Fossils – 481 illustrations in color - 1962 / Frank H. T. Rhodes
PF050 / The Dinosaurs – fantastic new view of a lost era - 1981 / William Stout
PF060 / Search for the Past – an intro. to paleontology-1960 / James R. Beerbower

GEOLOGY, CHEMISTRY, SCIENCE

CODE / TITLE / AUTHOR/PUBLISHER
GC010 / Outlines of Geology – 1957 / Longwell, Knopf, Flint, Schuchert, Dunbar
GC020 / Introduction to Geology – 1935 / E. B. Branson, W. A. Tarr
GC030 / Geology: the paradox of earth and man - / Keith Young
GC040 / Structural Geology – 1942 / Marland P. Billings
GC050 / Environmental Geology – 1970 / Peter F. Flawn
GC060 / Environmental Geology – 1992 / Carla W. Montgomery
GC070 / Source Book in Geology 1900-1950 – 1967 / Kirtley F. Mather
GC080 / An Introduction to Geology – 1921 / W. B. Scott
GC090 / Geology of Petroleum – 1931 / William Harvey Emmons
GC100 / Record of the Rocks – the geological story of eastern North America - 1953 / Horace G. Richards
GC110 / Stories in Stone – telling of some of the wonderlands of Western America and some of the curious incidents in the History of Geology - 1926 / Willis T. Lee
GC120 / Earth and Life Through Time - 1985 / Steven M. Stanley
GC130 / Continents in Collision / Russell Miller
GC140 / Geology (small paperback) – 1972 / Frank H. T. Rhodes
GC150 / Hiking America’s Geology - / Toni Eugene, Ron Fisher
GC160 / Symposium on Rock Mechanics - vol 51, no. 3 – 1956 quarterly of the Colorado school of mines (paperback) / Various contributors
GC170 / The Geology of New Hampshire – part 1, surficial geology – 1958 (paperback) / J. W. Goldthwait, L. Goldthwait, R. P. Goldthwait
GC180 / Mica Deposits of the southeastern Piedmont, Part 1 – Geological survey (paperback) / Richard H. Jahns, Wallace R. Griffiths, and E. Wm. Heinrich
GC190 / Field Guide to the Geology of the Cape Cod National Seashore – 1972 (paperback) / John J. Fisher
GC200 / Bibliography of the Geology of Rhode Island – 1950 (small paperback)
GC210 / Land Forms – simple intro and guide to land forms - 1971 / George F. Adams and Jerome Wyckoff
GC220 / Geology – outline of the principles of physical and historical geology / Richard M. Field
GC230 / Biography of the Earth – 1948 / George Gamow
GC240 / Fundamentals of Earth Science – 1960 / Henry D. Thompson
GC245 / Fundamentals of Earth Science – 1947 / Henry D. Thompson
GC250 / Physical Science a study of matter and energy-1967 / Verne H. Booth
GC260 / Basic Exploration Geophysics – 1988 / Edwin S. Robinson and Cahit Coruh
GC270 / Identification and Qualitative Chemical Analysis of Minerals – 1946 / O. C. Smith
GC280 / Chemical Principles teaching General Chem. - 1977 / William Masterton and Emil Slowinski
GC290 / Doubleday Pictorial library of Science – Chemistry Physics Astronomy / Bronowski, Barry, Fisher, Huxley

MISCELLANEOUS

The Amateur’s Guide to Caves and Caving - 1973 / David R. McClurg
How Many People Can the Earth Support? – 1995 / Joel E. Cohen
Gift from the Sea - 1957 / Anne Morrow Lindebergh
Seashores – a guide to animals and plants along the seashore. - 1955 / Herbert S. Zim and Lester Ingle
Sea and Seashore, The observer’s book of - 1973 / I. O. Evans