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The book is first publication of the Album of Drawings of the famous mineral collection which had been built by an outstanding Russian Diplomat Heinrich Christopher Gottfried von Struve (1772–1851). It contain only a small part of the collection drawings but lucky original specimens survive over centuries too and they are presented in the book together with drawings. The readers will find here a really exciting story of Heinrich von Struve life and his mineral collection (including archive documents).
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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.
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The book involves systematization and description of various mineral forms known in the nature. This is the first published well-illustrated course that tracks the evolution of the crystal perfectness over the wide range of mineralization conditions. It proceeds from almost ideal crystals to highly defective ones, which can be rightly identified as both individual forms and aggregates. Regularly and irregularly formed aggregates of minerals are also considered.
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This book is the first and the most comprehensive book about 582 new minerals discovered in Former Soviet Union (within its former boudariens) since 1766. The book contains informations about the type localities and the type speciments of the minerals that are kept in Russian museums; data on the persons for whom the minerals were named; portraits of discoverers of new minerals; 184 color plates, 68 SEM - photographs of minerals; 24 maps; complete locality index; and 761 references. This book contains very reliable facts and precise data and therefore will it provide trustworthy and long - term service to mineralogists of many countries.
The author of this book, Igor V. Pekov (Lomonosov Moscow State University), is a young but well-known mineralogist. He is famous, in particular, for his work at the alkaline massifs of the Kola Peninsula and Greenland and as a discoverer and investigator of new minerals.
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Price: $25.00 (USD)
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