[Cameron DeMille]

Maurizio Bertoli recommended a book a while back. “Rocks and Minerals” by Simon and Schuster. A little learning curve. Its a petrology book, has pictures and descriptions of just about everything. I read it from time to time, still trying to figure out a lot of the terminology.

[Tom M]

Thank you for the reference.
It seems to be a study that, the more you learn, the more you find you don’t know.

From a selfish standpoint, I find it makes me much more attractive to a customer (knowledge-wise, there is no hope for me otherwise) than the cheapie guy down the road. I originally though that I only needed just enough to get by, but there is some great info to be had out there in mineralville.

[Michelle Goetzinger]

Tom,

I was lucky enough to be able to befriend a geologist, he gave me a great start in geology 101.

I have since purchased about 20 different rocks/ minerals from a local store and display them in our show room. 

Being able to identify the different minerals in the stone has become a huge selling point for us. 

We also have offered some local schools to come up for a tour and geology lesson and we send the kids home with minerals from our scrap pile. 

I have also used the following sites too.

http://webmineral.com/

http://www.rocksforkids.com/RFK/ide…ml#Mineral

http://www.njminerals.org/moreid.html

Good luck and enjoy!

[Tom M]

That’s an excellent suggestion, Michelle. I need a bigger showroom.
I keep hitting refresh on that webmineral.com page you posted. I should yell at myself for wasting shop time, but it’s too cool.

I now have three more bookmarked sites. Thank you!

When I was a 4-H er in my youth, I had rock collections entered in the fairs. I assume all the samples ended up in my head. At least that’s where everyone told me the rocks were.

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