The Non-Metallic Minerals: Their Occurrence and Uses

Abstract

THE author of this valuable work is head curator of geology in the United States National Museum, and in 1901 he issued a scholarly guide to the study of the collections in the section of applied geology. Upon this guide he has founded the present work in which he brings together the widely-scattered notes and references relating to the occurrence and use of minerals of value other than as ores. Much of the information he gives is quite new, particularly in regard to the occurrence of American minerals; and the value of the work is greatly enhanced by the well-selected photographs of quarries and of striking specimens. Among these the views of the big vein between the peridotite and gneiss at Corundum Hill, North Carolina; of the quarry of lithographic limestone at Solenhofen, Bavaria; of large spodumene crystals in granitic rock, Etta Mine, South Dakota; and of quarries of bituminous sandstone in California and in Indian territory, are of special interest.

The Non-Metallic Minerals: Their Occurrence and Uses.

By George P. Merrill. Pp. xi + 414. (New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1904; London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd.) Price 17s. net.