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Home Page of MS Book and Mineral Company Profile MS Book and Mineral Company is named after me, its founder and owner, Mel Schmidt. I buy new, rare and out-of-print books, maps, select minerals, and metalliferous ore samples. Please let me know what you would like to sell. I am interested in purchasing entire personal library collections in all facets of geology, surface and underground mining, exploration for ore deposits, extractive metallurgy, vertebrate or invertebrate paleontology, petroleum, geology and/or mining history and/or paleobiology, paleoecology, or biostratigraphy of individual states or provinces, regions, special locales anywhere in the world, and more. Please contact me if you are ready to sell your collection thereby making these materials available to the international scientific community for study and research through this website. If you have a source of quality minerals or ore samples please let me know. Have a collection but don't know whether to sell or donate it? Feel like you are about to sell or give away your best friends? I can help you when dealing with these situations. Please give me a call: (337) 478 - 0669. Central Standard Time - USA. If the message box on the top of the home page indicates that I am traveling, please call my cell phone: (337) 292 - 6154.
If you are a potential customer and wish to receive e-mail notification of catalog updates, please send an e-mail. Please let me know your specific interests, igneous rocks, mineralogy, mining, railroads, etc.
We number our catalogs with
respect to the current time of the year. For example, a catalog identified as [ 2 / Geomorphology / 2009 ]
means it is the second quarterly catalog of geomorphology for 2007. Each
update every catalog at multiple times during the year as items are sold
and new items are added. I update catalogs on an irregular basis.
While visiting this website, if you find a page with wide gaps where
information should appear, but does not using your browser, please send me
an email and I will fix the problem immediately. It involves color
definitions and has become a problem with especially one browser. Items which have been listed for several weeks or months or longer are shown in black. Rare items are shown in green. To place an order (and reserve an item posted in this website), or to make a comment of ask a question, just send an e-mail requesting the items you wish to order and the catalog they are found in. Please include your preferred method of payment and a shipping address. I normally will reply within 24 hours. I may be at times on the road for periods of a week or two, otherwise I will still try to send a return email to let you know your order has been received. For additional information on ordering go to the "place an order" page.
Most items are one-of-a-kind and are sold
on a first come, first serve basis. All orders are shipped promptly,
usually with 24 hours to locations everywhere in the world.
Credit card purchases will be shipped immediately upon verification of your
credit information. I will store your shipping and credit information so
it will not be necessary to send that information again. Please let me
know of any updates to your e-mail address, shipping address, or credit
information to avoid problems later.
My personal research interests are the mining history of the Western United States. I am currently writing comprehensive books on the history of mines and town sites in each of the Western States of the United States. If you have a similar interest or if you have pictures, mine records, data, pictures, or letters concerning any of the mines in the Western U.S. and are willing to share or swap information, I would like to hear from you. Please send me an e-mail or give me a phone call.
Red Mountain # 2, San Juan Mountains, Colorado
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