In this wonderful guide to non-living nature, we will get to know more than 500 species
minerals and rocks.

It contains about six hundred photographs supplemented by a comprehensible description of the individual species and their characteristic signs and properties by which we can easily recognize them. The book also includes a brief glossary of useful technical terms.

A bonus is a detailed introduction in which readers learn what a mineral is and what a rock is, learn about their classification (for minerals depending on their chemical composition, for rocks according to their origin) and learn how to proceed in their determination or how to establish and organize a collection.

The book is a suitable guide not only for active collectors, but for everyone
in general admirers of petrified beauty.