A splendid guide by James R. Mitchell, this is the newly expanded and revised edition featuring 118 collecting sites throughout New Mexico, including GPS coordinates for each location. Gem Trails of New Mexico is replete with maps, detailed directions, descriptions of what you should look for, and general rockhounding information.
It also features a section of outstanding full-color photos of specimens found throughout the state. Highlighted minerals include garnets (in schist), barite, wulfenite, smithsonite, lepidolite, staurolite, fluorite cubes, and linarite.
Paperback; dimensions are 8 7/8" by 6 by 3/8"; 280 pages.