	*Boegel, Hellmuth (1971) A Collector's Guide to Minerals and Gemstones. Thames and Hudson.*	Book
	immensely popular handbook of minerals appeared in Germany I obtained a copy fo! my personal library and was...essentials of crystallography, chemistry, and crystal structure. These provide a firm basis for discussion...crystallography at the beginning of the text, crystal systems and associated conventions and terminology...minerals in order to avoid those lamentable errors in crystal forms and colors which are instantly apparent to...slightly reduced, and a few enlarged, as the diamond crystal of Plate 1, depicted in both natural and greatly
	Dill, Harald G. (2015) The Hagendorf-Pleystein Province: the Center of Pegmatites in an Ensialic Orogen - Modern Approaches in Solid Earth Sciences No. 15. Springer International Publishing. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-18806-5	Book
	Gottfried-Wilhelm-Leibniz University Hannover, Germany Responsible Series Editor: F. Pirajno ISSN 1876-1682...composition; they contain as major constituents the three rock-forming minerals feldspar, quartz and mica, which...rocks in the Bohemian Massif, which is shared by Germany, the Czech Republic, Poland and Austria, has been...Pleystein New Aplite, Miesbrunn Pegmatite Aplites Swarm West and East, Reinhardsrieth Aplite) have been found...the region are not very promising and mining in Germany is obviously a profession of the past, but learning
	*Moore, T.P. (2016) Moore's Compendium of Mineral Discoveries 1960 - 2015* Vol. 2. Mineralogical Record Inc.**	Book
	MineralogicalRecord.com I IIMORIITE-(Y) EUROPE FRANCE Trimouns quarry, Luzenac, Ariege. Operated for talc since the beginning...beginning of the 20th century, the Trimouns quarry became well known to collectors around 1990 for the...vugs of crystalline talc. Easily the best extant crystal, a doubly terminated floater found in a talc vug...Shelley Lambert extracted excellent loose ilmenite crystal clusters from a calcite vein-dike digging site...Chamberlain, 1982; Joyce, 2006a). Some of the ilmenite crystal faces are partly overgrown by a brown coating which
	*Bernard, Jan, Hyršl, Jaroslav (2004) Minerals and their Localities* (1st ed.) Granit, Prague.**	Book (edition)
	formula, allegiance to a mineral group, symmetry and crystal structure as well as the strongest X-ray powder...and opaque minerals. More attention is paid to crystal habit or aggregate development and their sizes...species must contain chemical formula, structure (crystal system, space group, and unit cell dimensions)...units (A), expressed differently according to the crystal system: only a for the cubic system, a,c for the...specifying the orientation of the crystal faces in relation to the crystal axes, a set of three or four numbers
	*Clopton, E. L., Wilson, W. E. (1996) The Mineralogical Record Index* - Volumes I - XXV 1970 - 1994. Mineralogical Record Inc.**	Book
	information b Book review c Crystal morphology information d Crystal drawing ff Continues on following...10:215-217 ADULARIA Adu Iaria from the Howard-Montgomery quarry, Howard County, Maryland (by J. S. White) 25:53-54...ALSTONITE An occurrence of alstonite at Cave-in-Rock, Illinois (by G. R. Rossman & R. L. Squires) 5:266-269...ANALCIME Natrolite and analcime from Eckman Creek quarry. Waldport. Oregon (by M. Groben) 1:153, 1:173,...23:88-90 ANCYLITE Calcian ancylite from [the Keystone quarry near Cornog,] Pennsylvania: new data (by F. A.
	Dill, Harald G. (2010) The “chessboard” classification scheme of mineral deposits: Mineralogy and geology from aluminum to zirconium. Earth-Science Reviews, 100 (1) 1-420 doi:10.1016/j.earscirev.2009.10.011	Journal (article/letter/editorial)
	niversity Mainz, D-55099 Mainz, Becherweg 21, Germany a r t i c l e i n f o Article history: Received...commodity section corresponds to the common host rock lithologies (magmatic, sedimentary, and metamorphic)...research and training in geosciences. Metamorphic host rock lithologies and commodities are addressed by different...atmosphere, hydrosphere and lithosphere (crust and the upper mantle). There are physical barriers hampering our...handled in a careful balance combined with “noseon-rock methods” (hammer and laptop). Results obtained by
	Dill, Harald G. (2010) The “chessboard” classification scheme of mineral deposits: Mineralogy and geology from aluminum to zirconium. Earth-Science Reviews, 100 (1) 1-420 doi:10.1016/j.earscirev.2009.10.011	Journal (article/letter/editorial)
	niversity Mainz, D-55099 Mainz, Becherweg 21, Germany a r t i c l e i n f o Article history: Received...commodity section corresponds to the common host rock lithologies (magmatic, sedimentary, and metamorphic)...research and training in geosciences. Metamorphic host rock lithologies and commodities are addressed by different...atmosphere, hydrosphere and lithosphere (crust and the upper mantle). There are physical barriers hampering our...handled in a careful balance combined with “noseon-rock methods” (hammer and laptop). Results obtained by

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Rock Crystal from Fuchsbau quarry, Tröstauer Forst-West, Wunsiedel im Fichtelgebirge, Upper Franconia, Bavaria, Germany

Rock Crystal from
Fuchsbau quarry, Tröstauer Forst-West, Wunsiedel im Fichtelgebirge, Upper Franconia, Bavaria, Germany