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Pages: 224, Edition: 2nd, Paperback, Gem Guides Book Co

Mitchell. Revised edition featuring over 90 locations, including 27 new sites. Detailed directions and a map for each collecting site lead you on the search for over 80 different minerals plus fossils in the Centennial state. Color photographs aid in specimen identification. Information about local museums, and tours make this an ideal travel and collecting guide for rockhounds. 224 pgs.

GEM TRAILS OF COLORADO. Mitchell. With the help of this guide, be on the lookout for amazing fossil, rock, and mineral specimens as you venture through the state of Colorado! Over 75 locations statewide are described with maps, black and white photos, and driving directions, identifying the most likely finds at each site, and providing valuable information and suggestions pertaining to collection laws, protection of fragile ecosystems, and personal safety. #STO-51623.

Colorado is home to a wide variety of gems, minerals and fossils and this book can help you discover over 80 different types. Each site is shown in detail with clear maps and directions, descriptions and photos.

Author Bios Robin Shepherd heads up the Europe programme at The Royal Institute of International Affairs in London. He is regularly quoted in newspapers around the world and has appeared frequently on the BBC, CNN and other broadcast outlets. He studied Russian at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University of London. He took his masters in political theory at the London School of Economics. He speaks Russian, French, Slovak and Czech.

Richard M. Pearl , professor of geology at Colorado College, is the author of thirty books on gems, minerals, and geology, including Popular Gemology, How to Know the Minerals and Rocks, and Successful Mineral Collecting and Prospecting . He has received recognition from gem and mineral organizations in twelve countries. A graduate of the University of Colorado and Harvard University, Pearl has been president of the Colorado Springs Mineralogical Society, the Colorado Mineral Society, the Rocky Mountain...