Mineralogical Magazine; June 2000; v. 64; no. 3;
p. 579-580
© 2000 Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland
Herrington, R., Stanley, C. and Symes, R. Gold.
London (Natural History Museum), 1999, 64 pp. Price £7.95. IBSN 0-565-09141-7.
R.A. Howie
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This latest slim book in this popular series (previous titles include Crystals, Gemstones, Meteorites, and Volcanoes) presents an attractive combination of colour photographs, maps and diagrams, with a clear, concise yet authoritative text. The mineralogy of gold is summarized, with a list of its alloys, tellurides, selenides and sulphides. The authors then embark on descriptions of how and where gold is found, enlivened by a colourful cross-section through the Earths crust, though the reader is warned that no single . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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