Gems & Minerals of the Southwest

Turquoise, gold, silver, and many more exotic Western minerals. The spectacular terrain of the American Southwest contains some equally spectacular gems and minerals. Jennifer Sano provides an easy-to-read resource for identifying more than 80 minerals, including both real gold and fool's gold, familiar gems such as opal and garnet, and more surprising specimens like hairy blue-green cyanotrichite, fluorescent purple fluorite, petrified wood, and talc. This description may be from another edition of this product.