Title:
Fifty minerals that changed the course of history / written by Eric Chaline.
ISBN:
9781770855878
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Publication Information:
Richmond Hill, Ontario : Firefly Books, 2017.
Physical Description:
223 pages :billustrations ; 23 cm.
General Note:
Reprint. Originally published: 2012.
Summary:
"A guide to the minerals that have had the greatest impact on human civilization. These are the materials used from the Stone Age to the First and Second Industrial Revolutions to the Nuclear Age and include metals, ores, alloys, salts, rocks, sodium, mercury, steel and uranium. The book includes minerals used as currency, as jewelry and as lay and religious ornamentation when combined with gem minerals like diamonds, amber, coral, and jade."-- Provided by publisher.
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Series Sequence:
OCLC Number:
ocn987029646
Availability:
Lakeville - Heritage~1
Burnsville - Burnhaven~1
Eagan - Wescott~1
