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Ice Metamorphosis
By Albert Russ
176 photos. Format: 29 x 20 cm. 200 pages. Published in October 2018.
Ice Metamorphosis is an art/photography book with a detailed look on ice from a very unusual perspective. It focuses on stalagmites in abandoned mines of Banska Stiavnica, Slovakia. Author has spent 10 years documenting growth, thaw and metamorphosis of ice stalagmites in these mines. Each winter season brought different motives for a virtually infinite possibilities of abstracts, especially those of etching structure details of melting ice stalagmites. Analogical to etching of other mineral species such as beryl, topaz or quartz, these structures also had common features and some similarities although each produced image turned out to be unique. The publication touches the aspects of global warming and climate change in relation to changes of seasonal ice formation
Book consists of three chapters with Forword written by Peter Lyckberg, the world-famous Swedish mineral collector, and Ján Madarás, a well-known Slovak geologist. The story behind photography is co-edited by Bryan Swoboda, the famous American mineral film-maker and documentarist.
Status: Available
Price: $55.00 (USD)
Add to shopping cartBoris Z. Kanror
For Beginners in Mineral Collecting (in Russian) Boris Z. Kanror
Moscow: «Russian minerals» and «Mineralogical Almanac» Publishing House, 2020.
128 pages., 332 illustrations including 219 photo of minerals.
Status: Available
Price: $50.00 (USD)
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The book contains detailed and comprehensive information about gem localities over the world, and their geological setting. The book is full of geological illustrations, which make the text easily understandable. In addition we included 136 color photographs of all the main gems, mentioned in the book, taken by the best mineral photographers of the world. The data is of great value both for collectors and professionals. Though not a textbook it will undoubtedly be useful for professors at Universities and Geological and Mining Schools.
Status: Available
Price: $98.00 (USD)
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L.A. Budrina Malachite Diplomacy
60 x 90 cm 1/16 pages 208
Status: Available
Price: $48.00 (USD)
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A.K. Litvinenko Geology of the Snezhnoe ruby deposit, Central Pamir on Russian
2020. – pages 112.
Status: Sold Out
Lilac Miracle of Siberia
By Vera P. Rogova
(on Russian)
This book is about Charoite, a unique mineral, found only in one locality in the Earth - Sireneviy Kamen Deposit, Siberia, Russia.
It is written by a team of authors, among which Vera P. Rogova, the discoverer of the Sireneviy Kamen Deposit.
Geology of the Murun massif, features of the charoite and other rocks of deposite are discribed.
The book includes many photos as field, historic, specimens.
Second updated edition.
Hardcover, 192 pages, 17.5 x 25 cm. Published in 2013.
Status: Sold Out