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1. The AIME Catalog (American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers) Catalog has been updated with new material and much lower prices. To visit this historic catalog, click here: AIME
2. If you find any mistakes on any page of this catalog please contact me immediately. I do appreciate all the help I can get.
3. The pages of all minerals in mineral catalogs are now listed in green instead of red. My apologies to everyone out there who cannot see red!
4. Coming in 2025! Something completely different!
Information on mines: their physical location, the mineral district where they are, minerals found there, names of people who worked there, shafts and tunnels, assays, and much more.. This project is to help those who had relatives working these mines find this hard to find information. And some of us just want to learn more about the hard rock mining. I hope to include tidbits on mining towns.
If you have old mining reports you would contribute to this cause please contact me.
If you have ideas as to what this project should look like on a computer screen please let me know.
Most information I have so far concerns Arizona and Colorado.
If you have a collection of clean books or select minerals you wish to sell or donate, please let me know.
email: msbooks@booksgeology.com
I am working on new ore samples.
Several new ones have been posted on the mineral specimen papers.
Links to several catalogs with new updates:
Thumbnail & micro minerals catalog
I have also spent several weeks working on the USGS Annual Report Catalog. I have converted all complete copies with damaged spines (the usual problem with these heavy books)into additional copies of individual chapters (originally called reports). This is an improvement as you might only need one or two chapters from various volumes. This reduces your cost and allows me to reduce the overall physical size and weight of that section of the MS Book and Mineral Company inventory. Link to USGS Annual Report section.
MS Book and Mineral Company has started stocking more historical Colorado USGS 1:24,000 and 1:56,000 maps. You can click on the small map to enlarge them slightly. To enlarge them to a usable size requires a purchase. Link to the Colorado Maps described above.
Don't miss out on the Bruce Cairncross mineral book is ready to ship to you today! This mineral book makes someone a great gift.
Go to the Select Mineral book catalog for details. You will receive a free copy of this book with any $100 order. Just ask me to include it with your order.
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Want to sell your collection now of sometime later? Please record my contact information. My advertisement in GSA Today is gone as their advertising rates are now unaffordable.
Call me if you have any questions. I am always willing to help find information or books you are looking for. My fee for helping to find something you need is still zero.
Email will be the best way to contact me for the next few months.
My cell phone number is (337) 292 - 6154.
Please continue to send in your book, mineral, and fossil orders to me at:
msbooks@booksgeology.com
For a list of all U.S. State Catalogs still available on this website click here:
United States Mining History & Geology
A few states are currently sold out.
Two unique, historic catalogs of Tristate and Upper Mississippi Valley Lead and Zinc
mining:
Tristate Pb-Zn Mining: Lead and Zinc
Mining in Kansas, Oklahoma, and Missouri
Upper Mississippi Valley Zn-Pb Ore Deposits: Zinc and Lead Mining in Wisconsin, Iowa, and Illinois.
Your Satisfaction is guaranteed on all purchases!
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Mel Schmidt, Owner
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