Many books have been written about rocks and minerals. Some are listed below, and it is likely that your librarian will be able to suggest others.

Nontechnical Books for Beginners

Getting Acquainted With Minerals, by George L. English and David E. Jensen. McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., New York, N. Y. (second edition, 1958).

The Rock Book, by Carroll L. Fenton and Mildred A. Fenton. Doubleday & Company, Inc., Garden City, N. Y. (1940).

Mineral Collector’s Guide, by David E. Jensen. Ward’s Natural Science Establishment, Inc., Rochester, N. Y. (1953).

My Hobby is Collecting Rocks and Minerals, by David E. Jensen. Hart Book Company, New York, N. Y. (1955).

Rocks and Minerals, by Richard M. Pearl. Barnes & Noble, New York, N. Y. (1956).

1001 Questions Answered About the Mineral Kingdom, by Richard M. Pearl. Dodd, Mead & Company, New York, N. Y. (1959).

Rocks and Minerals, by Herbert S. Zim and Paul R. Schaffer. Simon and Schuster, Inc., New York, N.Y. (1957).

Textbooks and Other Reference Books

Economic Mineral Deposits, by Alan M. Bateman. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, N. Y. (second edition, 1950).

A Textbook of Mineralogy, by Edward S. Dana, revised by William E. Ford. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, N. Y. (fourth edition, 1932).

Industrial Minerals and Rocks (Nonmetallics Other Than Fuels), Joseph L. Gillson, Editor-in-Chief. The American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers, New York, N. Y. (third edition, 1960).

Dana’s Manual of Mineralogy, revised by Cornelius S. Hurlbut, Jr. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, N. Y. (seventeenth edition, 1959).

Mineralogy, by Edward H. Kraus, Walter F. Hunt, and Lewis S. Ramsdell. McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., New York, N. Y. (fifth edition, 1959).

Nonmetallic Minerals, by Raymond B. Ladoo and W. M. Meyers. McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., New York, N. Y. (second edition, 1951).

Rocks and Rock Minerals, by Louis V. Pirsson, revised by Adolph Knopf. John Wiley and Sons, Inc., New York, N. Y. (third edition, 1947).

A Field Guide to Rocks and Minerals, by Frederick H. Pough. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, Mass. (third edition, 1960).

Mineral Facts and Problems, by the Staff of the Bureau of Mines. U. S. Bureau of Mines Bulletin 585. U. S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C. (1960).

Selected References on Texas Rocks and Minerals

Entries marked with an asterisk are published by the Bureau of Economic Geology, The University of Texas, Austin. Those not out of print are distributed at nominal sale price, and a list of publications will be sent on request. These publications can be consulted at many public libraries and Chamber of Commerce offices.

*Report on the Pavitte Silver-Copper Prospect in Burnet County, Texas, by V. E. Barnes. Univ. Texas, Bureau Econ. Geol. Mineral Resource Survey Circ. 5 (1936).

*Report on the Sheridan Copper Prospect in Burnet County, Texas, by V. E. Barnes. Univ. Texas, Bur. Econ. Geol. Mineral Resource Survey Circ. 9 (1936).

*Building Stones of Central Texas, by V. E. Barnes, R. F. Dawson, and G. A. Parkinson. Univ. Texas Pub. 4246 (1947).

*Iron Ore in the Llano Region, Central Texas, by V. E. Barnes. Univ. Texas, Bur. Econ. Geol. Rept. Inves. No. 5 (1949).

*Utilization of Texas Serpentine, by V. E. Barnes, D. A. Shock, and W. A. Cunningham. Univ. Texas Pub. 5020 (1950).

*Lead Deposits in the Upper Cambrian of Central Texas, by V. E. Barnes. Univ. Texas, Bureau Econ. Geol. Rept. Inves. No. 26 (1956).

*Mineral Resources of the Colorado River Industrial Development Association Area, by J. W. Dietrich and J. T. Lonsdale. Univ. Texas, Bureau Econ. Geol. Rept. Inves. No. 37 (1958).

*Some Uranium Occurrences in West Texas, by D. H. Eargle. Univ. Texas, Bureau Econ. Geol. Rept. Inves. No. 27 (1956).

*A Preliminary Report on the Stratigraphy of the Uranium-Bearing Rocks of the Karnes County Area, South-Central Texas, by D. H. Eargle and J. L. Snider. Univ. Texas, Bureau Econ. Geol. Rept. Inves. No. 30 (1957).

The Brown Iron Ores of Eastern Texas, by E. B. Eckel. U. S. Geol. Survey Bull. 902 (1938).

*The Rustler Springs Sulphur Deposits as a Source of Fertilizer, by G. L. Evans. Univ. Texas, Bureau Econ. Geol. Rept. Inves. No. 1 (1946).

Origin of the Gulf Coast Salt-Dome Sulphur Deposits, by Herbert W. Feely and J. Lawrence Kulp. Bull. Amer. Assoc. Petrol. Geol., vol. 41, pp. 1802-1853 (1957).

*Pegmatites of the Van Horn Mountains, Texas, by P. T. Flawn. Univ. Texas, Bureau Econ. Geol. Rept. Inves. No. 9 (1951).

*The Hazel Copper-Silver Mine, Culberson County, Texas, by P. T. Flawn. Univ. Texas, Bureau Econ. Geol. Rept. Inves. No. 16 (1952).

*Basement Rocks of Texas and Southeast New Mexico, by P. T. Flawn. Univ. Texas Pub. 5605 (1956).