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A bi-monthly trade magazine devoted to mineralogy, geology and lapidary arts. For everyone interested in minerals, rocks and fossils. Each issue has several feature reports and many other shorter pieces, poems, mineral occurrences, the Sand Collector, Amateur lapidary class, and news. Fewer shorter pieces in later years. I have generally listed only the articles, not shorter pieces.

9x6" with simple color covers with a black and white illustration through at least 1960. 11x8.5" after that with stunning color photographs on the covers (similar to Mineralogical Record) and more and more color inside.

Condition: Good condition, lightly rubbed covers. I've mentioned any other condition issues in the individual listing.

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Rocks and Minerals : May – June 1955, Volume 30(5-6), # 246. (Cover worn with tear). $5
New discovery of Topaz crystals near Conway, New Hampshire.
Remarkable occurrence of allanite and zircon crystals from a southern California pegmatite, near Pacoima Canyon, Little Tujunga quadrangle.
New Hampshire gem mines.
California field trip.

Rocks and Minerals : September – October 1955, Vol. 30(9-10), # 248. (cover lightly soiled with owner’s name) $6
Some fossil worm tubes of western Washington.
Tourmalines by the case.
Brown Tourmaline, a new American locality.
The Somabla forest diamond field, southern Rhodesia.
Prospecting in 1954.

Rocks and Minerals : January – February, 1956, Vol. 31(1-2), # 250. $6
Dinosaur tracks of the Connecticut River Valley.
The camera, best addition to any mineral collection.
Collecting rocks at school camp (geology class for summer camp)
Obtainable minerals of Los Angeles county, California.

Rocks and Minerals : May – June, 1959, Vol. 34(5-6), # 270. (minor cover smudges). $6
A new orthoclase Moonstone.
Why don’t you have a rock show?
Fifty years of mineral collecting, by Gunnar Bjareby.
Dryhead agate, prize of the fortifications.
White Canyon, Utah.

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Rocks and Minerals : July – August, 1959, Vol. 34(7-8), # 271. $6
Photoluminescene.
Rocking around Florida.
Digging for Rubies in Cowee Valley, North Carolina.
New exposures of Brucite and Deweylite near West Chester, Pennsylvania.
Jarosite from Natrona county, Wyoming.
Mineralogy of Moselle Mine No. 10, Phelps county, Missouri.
Impressions of a Rockhound, by Lynn J. Moore.

Rocks and Minerals : March – April, 1960, Vol. 35(3-4), # 275. (cover rubbed). $6
Physiography of Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Prospecting Hurricane mountain, North Conway, New Hampshire.
Quebec Vacation.
Notes on the beach sand from Baltic sea.

Rocks and Minerals : May-June, 1960, Vol. 35(5-6), # 276. $6
Petroglyphs. (Mexico)
Recent fossil collecting in Western Pennsylvania.
Fluorescing pegmatite in Maine.
Housing your micromount collection.
Geology of Barry Island, south east Glamorgan, Wales.
A Beryl crystal from Scotland.

Lovely color cover photos and some internal color photos from now on :

Rocks and Minerals : July - August 1991, Vol. 66(4). (Cover lightly rubbed). $24
Cover : Autunite, Daybreak mine, Spokane county.
WASINGTON STATE SPECIAL ISSUE.
Collecting in Washington’s Wenatchee National Forest.
Washington Mineral Locality Index.
Two Autunite Localities in Northeastern Washington, The Daybreak and Triple H & J Mines.
Geology, Mineral and Fossil collections and displays in Washington.
Zeolites of Washington State.
Realgar from the Royal Reward Mine, King county, Washington.
Mineral of the Spruce 16 Claim, King County, Washington.
Petrified wood from Washington.
Collecting sites for agate in Washington state.
Tertiary crustaceans, collecting localities in western Washington state.

Rocks and Minerals : November – December, 1991, Vol. 66(6). $12
Cover : Quartz (Japan-law twin) and dravite, Bald Hornet claim, King county, Washington.
Minerals of Golden Horn Batholith, Okanogan county, Washington.
Where the mammoths went and died.
Frederick H. Pough.
Washington’s Japan-law twin and sceptered quartz localities.
The Vester Peak Garnet deposit, Snohomish county, Washington.
The John S. Frankenfield collection.
Milton L. Speckels inducted into the micromounters Hall of Fame.

Rocks and Minerals : January – February, 1992, Vol. 67(1). $12
Cover : Pyromorphite, Les Farges mine, Correze province, France.
Paul E. Desautels (1920-1991).
Life on a log (transport of marine life in ocean currents).
Pyromorphite, a review.
Minerals in fossil coral from a site in Central Kentucky.
Fluorescent forum, the Mercury mines of Terlingua, Texas, Blue fluorescing calcite, part 1.

Rocks and Minerals : March – April, 1992, Vol. 67(2). $12
Cover : Art detail by Stephen Greb, dinosaurs.
Rediscovering Lampasas Celestine, Lampasas county, Texas.
From bones to behemoths, a look at dinosaur art and artists.
18th Rochester mineralogical symposium.
How can I get others interested in rocks?
Jason Clemons, self-taught collector.

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Rocks and Minerals : May – June 1992, Vol. 67(3). $12
Cover : Bournonite crystal grouping with fluorite, quartz and more, Yaogangxian.
Miarolitic cavity minerals of the Government pit, Albany, New Hampshire.
New Mineral stamps to be issues.
Early fossil discoveries in Wyoming.
Tetrahedrite crystals from the zinc mines at Balmat, St. Lawrence county, New York.
Calcite from Thomasville, Pennsylvania.
Northwest artist Kristin H. Lindell.
The Brunswick High School geology society.
The Arizona mining and mineral Museum in Phoenix.
Are there rocks that bend?

Rocks and Minerals : November – December 2002, Vol. 77(6). $18
Cover : Copper crystals from the Cliff mine, Keweenaw county, Michigan.
News from the Keweenaw : Part 2, recent mineral finds in Michigan’s copper country.
Copper country artist James K. Lawton.
The use of brackets in crystal descriptions.
Connoisseur’s choice : anatase, Hardangervidda, Ullensvang, Norway.
Iowa mineral locality index.
An easy field test for distinguishing sodium from potassium water-soluble minerals.
Disbelieving dissolution (amazing scepters and such).
Jean Petermann Kemp Zimmer (1917-2001).
Carl Krotki (1914-2002).
Richard T. Liddicoat (1918-2002).

Rocks and Minerals : January – February 2003, Vol. 78(1). Two copies available. $18
Cover : Chrysocolla with drusy quartz from Inca de Oro, Chile. (Looks like a blue sno-cone).
MINERALS OF THE ANDES SPECIAL ISSUE.
Minerals of the Andes : Emeralds, gold, and silver from the sky.
Connoisseur’s choice : silver, Uchucchacua, Peru.
The Szenics collection of contemporary Chilean minerals, a new addition to the Harvard mineralogical museum.
Bernardino Rivadavia (1780-1845).
The Andes come to Arizona.

Rocks and Minerals : March – April 2003, vol. 78(2). $12
Cover : Calcite from Guiyang, Hunan province, China.
Barite from the Cedar Creek anticline, Glendive, Montana.
A nostalgic look at rock shops, tourist traps, and exploited geological curiosities along the roadside.
Fluorescent Gibbsite from Yunnan province, China.
Connoisseur’s choice : Rutile, Graves mountain, Lincoln county, Georgia.
29th Rochester mineralogical symposium.
Anthony Robert Kampf.
Incredible millerite from Barrick Goldstrike’s Meikle mine, Elko county, Nevada.
Scepters or “Decepters”?
Clifford Frondel (1907-2002).

Rocks and Minerals : May – June 2003, Vol. 78(3). $12
Cover : Tourmaline on quartz, Cryo-Genie mine, Warner Springs, San Diego county, California.
Tourmaline discovery at the Cryo-Genie mine, San diego county, California.
The occurrence of Porcelaneous Datolite in Michigan’s Lake Superior Copper district – Part 1 : Northern Keweenaw county and Isle Royale National Park.
Former Copper country stained glass artist Karen S. Bell-Hanson.
Connoisseur’s Choice : Brookite, Dodo mine, Suppolar Urals, Russia.
The Cumberland habit.
A word to the wise : Pegmatite.

Rocks and Minerals : November – December 2003, Vol. 78(6). $12
Cover : Elbaite on quartz, Barra de Salinas, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
Fluorite from the Blanchard Mine group, Hansonburg mining district, Socorro county, New Mexico.
Secondary minerals from the Carletonville gold mines, Witwatersrand goldfield, South Africa.
Connoisseur’s choice : Danburite, Charcas, San Luis, Potosi, Mexico.
Carl Bentley, artist of the Creatures of the Mines series.
Archduke Stephan Franz Vicor of Habsburg-Lorraine (1817-1867).
Locality information for quartz with hematite from China.
Micromineral collecting at Mineral Hill, Wakefield, Carroll county, New Hampshire.
Hypogene and supergene.
Selenite : Die, you accursed term.
Marcelle Juanita Horn Weber (1918-2003).
Hyman “Hy” Savinar (1916-2003).

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Rocks and Minerals : January – February 2004, Vol. 79(1). $28
Cover : Gold and quartz, Eagle’s Nest mine, Placer county, California.
GOLD SPECIAL ISSUE.
From whence your gold.
Gold crystals : a primer.
Arizona’s gold rushes.
Connoisseur’s choice, Petzite, Bald Mountain, Sonora, Tuolumne county, California.
Specimen gold from the Olinghouse district, Washoe county, Nevada.
Photo-essay of Southern African gold.
Pockets of gold.
A word to the wise : hydrothermal.

Rocks and Minerals : March – April, 2004, Vol. 79(2). $18
Cover : Gold crystals, Irish gulch, Eldorado creek, Dawson City, Yukon Territory, Canada.
Red Lake Mine : the richest gold mine in the world, Balmertown, Ontario, Canada.
Morphology of gold crystals from the Yukon Territory, Canada.
Claudia Naegele, Namibian mineral artist.
Connoisseur’s choice : Acanthite, Silver Kin Mine, Park City, Utah.
The many mysteries of Artichoke quartz from China.
A new find of large Paramelaconite crystals, Algomah mine Ontonagon county, Michigan.
Robert W. Jones.
Spessartine Garnet?
A word to the wise : Placer.
Charles Henry Weber Jr. (1917-2003).
Jerome Hurianek (19191-2003).

Rocks and Minerals : May – June 2004, Vol. 79(3). (bumped corner) $12
Cover : Emerald with apatite, Chivor, Colombia.
Russian gold : an overview.
An American perspective on Russian gold specimens.
Connoisseur’s choice : Afghanite, Sar-e-Sang, Badakhsham province, Afghanistan.
Lyn Sylvia Kilian, Washington mineral artist.
30th Rochester mineralogical symposium.
Anthony J. Nikischer.
The nomenclature debacle.
Energy Dispersive Sectrometry (EDS).
Louis Perloff (1907-2004).
David Michael Shannon (1942-2004).

Rocks and Minerals : November – December 2004, Vol. 79(6). (cover lightly rubbed) $12
Cover : Penetration-twinned fluorite crystal, Blue circle Cement quarry, Weardale, England.
Connoisseur’s Choice : Stolzite, Ste.-Lucie Mine, Ste.-Leger de Peyre, Lozere, France.
Collecting the Keller Lake Pegmatite, Waupaca county, Wisconsin, a new site for Gadolinite-(Y).
A response to the “Nomenclature debacle.”
Growth Hillock.
Dalton B. Prince (1920-2004).
F. John Barlow (1914-2004).

Rocks and Minerals : January – February 2005, Vol. 80(1). $18
Cover : Realgar and calcite, Shimen, Hunan, China.
MINERALS OF CHINA SPECIAL ISSUE.
A mineral excursion to China 2004.
The Mystic Mimetite location of Liannan Yao autonomous county of Guangdong province, China.
Fluorite from the Xianghualing polymetallic ore field, Hunan Province, China.
The Yaogangxian tungsten mine, Yizhang county, Chenzhou, Hunan province, china.
A wonderful quartz form China.
Connoisseur’s choice : Bournonite, Yaogangxian mine, Chenzhou, Hunan province, China.
Metasomatism.

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