TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hodges,Montana
AU  - Feldman,Robert
TI  - Rockhounding Montana: A Guide to 100 of Montana's Best Rockhounding Sites
T2  - Rockhounding Series
SN  - 9781493014484
AV  - QE445.M9 H634 2016 
U1  - 552.09786 
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Blue Ridge Summit
PB  - Globe Pequot Press, The
KW  - Fossils-Collection and preservation-Montana-Guidebooks
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. Whitefish Fossils -- 2. Kalispell Pyrite -- 3. Libby Creek Gold -- 4. Fishtrap Creek Fossils -- 5. Cox Gulch Minerals -- 6. Taft Mountain Pyrite -- 7. Superior Minerals -- 8. Snowbird Mine Fluorite -- 9. Lolo Crystals -- 10. Garnet Mountain Fossils -- 11. Garnet Minerals -- 12. Drummond Fossils -- 13. Rattler Gulch Fossils -- 14. Helmville Fossils -- 15. Gem Mountain Sapphires -- 16. Flint Creek Rocks -- 17. Philipsburg Minerals -- 18. Blackfoot River Rocks -- 19. Rogers Pass Onyx -- 20. Bowman's Corner Fossils -- 21. Augusta Fossils -- 22. Sun River Fossils -- 23. Two Medicine Dinosaur Digs -- 24. Blackleaf Fossils -- 25. Craig Minerals -- 26. Elliston Agate -- 27. Montana City Jasper -- 28. Spokane Bar Sapphire Mine -- 29. Argo Mine Minerals -- 30. Basin Barite -- 31. Homestake Pass Pegmatites -- 32. Rader Creek Crystals -- 33. Quartz Hill -- 34. Calvert Loop Minerals -- 35. Crystal Park -- 36. Argenta Minerals and Fossils -- 37. Farlin Minerals -- 38. Clark Canyon Fossils -- 39. Dell Fossils -- 40. Rochester Mining District -- 41. Dillon Talc -- 42. Sweetwater Road Rhyolite -- 43. Ruby Reservoir Garnets -- 44. Red Rock Mine Garnets -- 45. River of Gold -- 46. Virginia City Minerals -- 47. Norris Crystals -- 48. Spire Rock Travertine -- 49. Big Sky Fossils -- 50. Red Cliff Crystals -- 51. Fairy Lake Fossils -- 52. Bozeman Pass Minerals -- 53. Hyalite Canyon -- 54. Point of Rocks Agate -- 55. Gallatin Petrified Forest -- 56. Gardiner Travertine -- 57. Daisy Pass Minerals -- 58. Red Lodge Fossils -- 59. Belfry Fossils -- 60. Pryor Mountains Chertand Fossils -- 61. Red Dome Fossils -- 62. Itch-Kep-Pe Agate -- 63. Laurel Agate -- 64. Dino Lab Digs -- 65. Riverfront Park Agate -- 66. Billings Fossils -- 67. Stratford Hill Fossils -- 68. Klein Fossils -- 69. Lavina Fossils; 70. Ryegate Fossils -- 71. Shawmut Trace Fossils -- 72. Swimming WomanCreek Fossils -- 73. Crystal Lake Fossils -- 74. Yogo Gold and Fossils -- 75. Belt Fossils -- 76. Loma Fossils -- 77. Judith Peak Crystals -- 78. Musselshell Fossils -- 79. Flatwillow Creek Fossils -- 80. Little Rockies Gold -- 81. Fossil Hill -- 82. Malta Dinosaur Digs -- 83. Malta Fossils -- 84. Glasgow Chert -- 85. Timber Creek Fossils -- 86. Jordan Fossils -- 87. PaleoWorld Dinosaur Digs -- 88. Paleotrek Dinosaur Digs -- 89. Winnett Fossils -- 90. Ingomar Fossils -- 91. Forsyth Agate -- 92. Castle Rock Lake Fossils -- 93. Miles City Fossils -- 94. Strawberry Hill Petrified Wood -- 95. Fort Union Fossils -- 96. Terry Agate -- 97. Fallon Agate -- 98. Glendive Fossils -- 99. Baisch's Dinosaur Digs -- 100. Sidney Agate -- APPENDIX A: GLOSSARY -- APPENDIX B: FURTHER READING -- APPENDIX C: FINDING MAPS, LANDMANAGERS, AND INFORMATION -- APPENDIX D: ROCK SHOPS IN MONTANA -- INDEX -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR
N2  - With this informative, fully updated and revised guide, you can explore the mineral-rich region of Montana. It describes the state's best rockhounding sites and covers popular and commerical sites as well as numerous little-known areas. This handy guide also descirbes how to collect specimens, includes maps and directions to each site, and lists rockhound clubs around the state. This is truly a complete guide to popular collecting sites in Montana and source-book brimming with advice that can be of use to both the novice and the experienced rockhounder
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