Schumann, Walter

A guide to gemstones, with over fifteen hundred color photographs, that showcases precious and semiprecious stones in their rough, natural, polished, and cut renditions and provides information on formation, physical properties, structure, and characteristics.

Describes the appearance, formation, physical properties and characteristics, mining, and cutting of precious, semiprecious, and synthetic gemstones.

Explains how to identify over 500 minerals. Includes a glossary of terminology.

Provides detailed information regarding the physical characteristics and unique traits of more than 1,800 precious and semiprecious stones, as well as discussing gemstone structure, production, name origin, and symbolism.

Contains descriptions and photographs of approximately six hundred minerals, rocks, and meteorites, providing information about the history, origin, structure, composition, properties, classification, and location of each specimen.

Describes the appearance, formation, physical properties and characteristics, mining, and cutting of precious, semiprecious, and synthetic stones.