Gems & minerals
Subtitle: earth treasures from the Royal Ontario Museum
By: Kimberly Tait
Contributors: Royal Ontario Museum
Publisher: Royal Ontario Museum; Firefly Books (U.S.)
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Toronto, Ont; Buffalo, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 255
ISBN-13: 9781554078806
Subjects: Gems; Catalogs; Musée royal de l'Ontario; Royal Ontario Museum; Catalogues; Catalogs and collections; Gemmes; Minéraux; Minerals; Pictorial works
Other titles: Gems and minerals; Earth treasures from the Royal Ontario Museum
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 250) and index.
Table of contents: title: Minerals : products of a changing planet; title: Native elements; title: Sulfides & sulfosalts; title: Oxides & hydroxides; title: Halides; title: Carbonates; title: Phosphates, arsenates & vanadates; title: Borates & nitrates; title: Sulfates, chromates, tungstens & molybdates; title: Tectosilicates; title: Phyllosilicates; title: Single-chain & double-chain inosilicates; title: Cyclosilicates; title: Sorosilicates; title: Neosilicates.