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    Gemstones: A Complete Color Reference for Precious and Semiprecious Stones of the World by Karen Hurrell, Mary L. Johnson

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    (Hardcover)

    • Pub. Date: October 2008
    • 319pp
    • Sales Rank: 16,610
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      Product Details

      • Pub. Date: October 2008
      • Publisher: Metro Books
      • Format: Hardcover, 319pp
      • Sales Rank: 16,610

      Synopsis

      A complete color guide to identifying and investigating gemstones.

      This book guides you through all aspects of the world of gems, exploring the different characteristics and properties of minerals, gems, and precious metals.

      • Combines cutting-edge writing with beautiful full-color photography that captures the beauty of a fascinating array of natural and cut stones.
      • Presents a wonderfully designed, in-depth directory that identifies each gemstone in turn, exploring every facet of common and rare gemstones, and precious metals.
      • Includes an at-a-glance gallery of gemstones in miniature, plus a failsafe step-by-step identification system.
      • Reveals interesting facts and surrounding folklore, as well as formation, structure, physical properties, and characteristics of gems, and details of how each might be worked and displayed.

      Biography

      Karen Hurrell is a freelance journalist, and bestselling author of many books, including Snapshots in Time, and The Unexplained. She has been fascinated by rocks, minerals, and gems for over a decade. Karen lives in London, England, with her husband and three children.

      Mary L. Johnson earned degrees in geochemistry from Caltech and mineralogy and crystallography from Harvard. She has performed research on sulfide minerals, high-pressure chemistry and physics, outer solar system processes, meteorites and the early solar system, and gemstones and their treatments. For 11 years she was West Coast Manager of Research for the Gemological Institute of America in Carlsbad, CA. She now owns her own scientific consulting firm.

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      Extremely Helpful..by Anonymous

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      March 16, 2009: This is a good book to reference when collecting gemstones. It has really good photos with a true to color of the gemstones and minerals for collectors to compare to what they have. Would have liked it better if it had a little more detail on some of the stones with a "what you need to know" to buy and better identify the stones, but worth the money when you need more understanding of the gemstones and where they come from and the ballpark figure of their value.

      Excellent resource and referenceby Steeleman

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      February 23, 2009: This is a wonderful book for anyone intersting in gems.

      Whether a novice of seasoned professional this book will provide answers in a clear and concicse way. It is also excellent visually and a pleasant book to simply hold and peruse. As a seasoned jeweler, it is an easy to read book that goes back to basics.


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