Gem Trails of Pennsylvania and New Jersey (Gem Trails)

Gem Trails of Pennsylvania and New Jersey (Gem Trails)

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Manufacturer: Gem Guides Book Company
Author: Scott Stepanski
Binding: Paperback
Publication Date: 2000-04
Publisher: Gem Guides Book Company
Label: Gem Guides Book Company
Number Of Pages: 167
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Editorial Review:
Newly revised and updated, Gem Trails of Pennsylvania and New Jersey is the essential guide for veteran and new collectors alike. Follow gem trails to beautiful agate, jasper, galena, pyrite, quartz crystals, fossils, and much more! The authors become your personal guides to unearthing the beautiful geologic treasures found Throughout the best sites in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Sites are presented with directions, rockhounding tips, descriptive text, maps, and numerous black and white photos. Rocks, minerals, and fossils found at the ends of the gem trails are pictured in full-color to aid in identification.

From seaside beaches to overgrown quarries, explore old favorites as well as newly-discovered sites that hold a wide variety of specimens for he rockhound to uncover. Gem Trails of Pennsylvania and New Jersey is the most complete gem trail guidebook for all rockhounds.
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Customer Reviews
Average Customer Rating:

What a marvellous book!

2007-04-01
Most helpful for the resident of or visitor to New Jersey who wants to get below nature's surface.

Gem rails of Pennsylvania and New Jersey

2007-01-11
Excellent description of fossil and mineral sites in PA and NJ. I found the maps to be clear, and the site descriptions to be very helpful. Also, here are several sites listed, with pretty good distribution over various parts of PA. Not a lot of information or illustrations about the samples one might hope to find, but generally a VERY good handbook for specific sites in this region. Well worth the price.

The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

2006-06-17
All in all this book has helped me collect many nice specimens although you have to be careful with some of the sites. The provided directions tend to me vague or wrong and some of the locations listed are just plain worthless. One site, hellertown jasper consists of a trickle of water running through a golf course, with an area about 100ft long that is not fenced off. You get to wade in the stream grabbing very low quality material as the golfers ride by in their carts laughing at you. Some of the sites however, make the book worthwhile, such as the buckwheat dump, big brook, wissahickon garnets, etc. If you go on a long trip that turns out to be a wild goose chase don't say I didnt warn you.

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